Anyone knows an informative and quick guide to Twitter howto for illustrators?

artbytra

Hi @xin-li Twitter is a wonderfully strange place haha. By thanking someone for retweeting or liking your work, typically I do the same in return, or if I like their timeline, I would follow them with also the hopes of them following me back. It is a great space for artists and writers in my opinion.

kylebeaudette

I love Twitter, I think it's my favourite platform. I've met a lot of my art heroes there, and gotten the word out about my art.
I think posting your process helps, and always be kind.
Comment on stuff you like, dont follow too many ppl or else youl never see the stuff you really want to.

xin li

@LauraA we are in the same boat. hehe.
@artbytra @kylebeaudette thank you so much for the tips.

I will try a bit more with Twitter this summer :-). But really try to be strict with myself on how much time I'd spent on it. I did not install the app on my phone. I deleted IG app from my phone a couple of days ago, but I re-installed it, because I could not figure out how to post multiple images in a post from my desktop. hehe...

NicolaSchofield

You can now schedule tweets which is useful if you don't want to spend lots of time on there - get a bunch ready all at once and then you don't need to keep going back.

As for thanking people who retweet you - I only know a couple of accounts that do this by actually tweeting out or reply tweeting a thank you and it's lovely but really annoying! My timeline is filled with their thank you tweets rather than interesting content and I quickly muted these people or unfollowed. I think a better way to thank someone is to look at their tweets and like, retweet or comment on one of those (a lot of people will be posting their own art).

LauraA

@xin-li I didn't even know you could post on IG from your desktop!

xin li

@LauraA I am on Mac system. I turn on the Develop menu on Safari, and switch the User agent to IOS. So my desktop browser displays the mobile user interface, which includes the "+" button. hehe...

LauraA

@xin-li Whoa! That is one cool hack!

emily.atwood.art

@xin-li Nice! I tried to find workarounds for Windows, but wasn't successful. Otherwise I would delete IG from my phone as well! If anyone knows of one that works for windows please let me know!

Kim Rosenlof

@emily-atwood-art I have used the Vivaldi browser from a Windows computer to upload to Instagram. I found a tutorial on how to do it a while back. Here is a link to a tutorial, not the one I used, but maybe it can help you out. https://vivaldi.com/blog/instagram-post-from-computer/

emily.atwood.art

@Kim-Rosenlof thanks, i'll try that out!!