Hashtags And Twitter

If you use the upload app, no. But you can go back and copy and past it and add hashtags. But if you use the Twittter button on the image page, then you can just modify the default message.

Melissa,

A lot of FAA artists RT on Twitter. It is right next to being spam. JMO. Yes it is a larger audience, but it becomes one audience with
tons of stuff. When I stopped using the FAA links those RTs disappeared right away. But I get to a newer audience without as much of
the spam by the same old artists. Possibly a few different artists yes, I do not have any control over that.

Mike pointed out to me that the hashtags are for live search. So for a brief while after you hashtag and post something you are in the search.

The idea is better suited for NBA basketball finals. Say a pro not in the finals wants to comment, he hashtags his comment and it shows up at the
top of the search. So then lets say ABC TV commentators look at Twitter search NBA Finals and finds his and other's comments right there.

The hashtags stay on your posts for the very long term doing nothing at all after the first day. In the search you will be totally buried after day one of posting.

Dave

Oh and people who track TV viewership know that live sports events like the NBA finals matter to viewers a great deal.

Everything else can be recorded and seen later without commercials etc.....so things that do not have to be seen live
do not need hashtags nearly as much.

Dave

I found posts going back to February just searching for a very specific job. I guess it depends on how many are using that hashtag. NBA finals is a lot more popular then what an artist might add for a hashtag.

It also depends on how much bigger Twitter has gotten. More people burying things deeper in the search.

Dave

I know about the retweet thing. Its a huge turnoff to alot of users and they will just unfollow and I definitely dont want that. I just wish there was a way to upload it hashtags and all from Faa.

Melissa,

I am not sure many of them unfollowed. They were probably mainly other artists and people who never look at their streams anyway.
So very few buyers with thousands of images foisted upon them daily.

The FAA Twitter autotweet is not so good. Tweeting manually is better.

Dave

i don't use auto posting, so i just tweet it with the tags. the tags include you in the search, forever, its not a small amount of time. how long the tags work in twitter is unknown, because they really only show you recent things. however google finds them and other bots as well. just like anywhere else, if you use a common tag you'll be buried. if you use special ones or unique ones, it will stay just fine.

you want tags because you won't be found otherwise. you have to depend on your friend base otherwise. with tags you create a funnel for other people to find you.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

When you make art more specifically for trades and professions that funnel becomes much more valuable.

For oil paintings I firmly believe your friends base is more valuable. Like with an email list you can have some collectors
if you run a very conservative presence on Twitter. But finding and adding friends takes some time to figure out. Ironically
using the search to find followers is the best option.

Dave

I use hashtags all the time when searching Twitter, without using hashtags while searching I got a whole lot of spammy stuff and the search is worthless. I'd say hashtags are critical to searching.

I do agree that manual tweeting is better.

Melissa, I don't think anyone should be using the FAA upload to Twitter or Facebook. There are several problems with it.

Twitter with out retweets is really worthless, imho. You can not possible reach enough people without them to make anywhere near as big an ipact that you can with them. Forget about those that unfllow, they obviously do not understand how twitter works. You lose one set of eyes when you lose that one person. You gain thousands with retweets.