UK Amazon Kindle Forum discussion

There's just been a lot of bloggers having problems with facebook. Apparently when they try and share links to their blog from their author page to other pages, they get blocked.
I know that I tried to share one blog post where one of these authors had reviewed my book very nicely and facebook blocked me from posting it as 'inappropriate content'
The feeling is that it's part of the facebook drive against 'fake news' and people wanting more in their feeds from family and friends.
There is a suspicion that facebook want them to pay to share their blogs from their author pages, counting it as advertising.

So a fair few are going across to MeWe

Must admit I usually only share my own blog posts. Just looked at MeWe. It's yet another thing to get a handle on. I now rarely use Twitter and I've never even ventured near Instagram. Too old to care!

Jim wrote: "... So a fair few are going across to MeWe ..."

If past form is anything to go by, if MeWe is successful, Facebook will buy it!

Whilst I don't use my Author Page much, I've always noticed glitches in Sharing. I've encountered things I can share as me, but not as my Author Page, whilst on other occasions I haven't been able to re-share things shared from Author Pages rather than by the author as themselves. Whilst I'm sure it's true that Facebook would like to charge you for anything that moves, I've always put it down to cock-up rather than conspiracy.

I must admit I share things from my facebook page to my author page, I don't remember the last time I tried to share the other way

I also understand what Kath means. I 'do' twitter largely through the automatics, I never look at my twitter feed. If I comment it's because I've got an email telling me I have 'x' notifications and I wander across at some point to have a look

Jim wrote: ".. I 'do' twitter largely through the automatics, I never look at my twitter feed..."

I'm sure this is the right approach. I believe Twitter mark you down if you never post any manual content, but mark you up if your automatics work to foster an illusion of loquacity. The last couple of days have been exceptional, but apparently my name has appeared on upwards of 100,000 devices. Of course it isn't targeted in any way, but it didn't cost me anything.

I once had by book shared by several people whom my mother might have described as 'underwear models'
I think the business model is that your bots pick stuff off Amazon and recommend it, and if your followers click the link and even better, buy it, then you'll get paid out of the affiliate scheme

I counted up and over 120,000 people saw the tweets, and I sold one book :-)

Jim, I see your tweets pop up occasionally, and they are usually just a bare link with no other text. This pretty much guarantees that 99.9% of people won't click on them. The whole point of twitter is to have something that can be scanned quickly while scrolling past to see if it is interesting. If I have to stop and click on an anonymous link, I won't.

Gingerlily - Deleter of Worlds wrote: "Jim, I see your tweets pop up occasionally, and they are usually just a bare link with no other text. This pretty much guarantees that 99.9% of people won't click on them. The whole point of twitte..."

I've just been to check to see what happens. The bare links are the ones that the facebook automatics do. I'll post a picture to facebook and the automatics just post a bare link. To post the same picture to twitter I've actually got to do it manually on my twitter feed.

Where I do get a picture on twitter is where I post a blog. When the automatics on wordpress post to twitter, they include a picture.

It might make sense just to disable the facebook feed onto twitter because even when I post a book review, facebook automatics don't carry the picture across.

I think you're right there Jim. I really don't think the bare links are worth anything. The ones with pictures make a lot more sense.

Gingerlily - Deleter of Worlds wrote: "I think you're right there Jim. I really don't think the bare links are worth anything. The ones with pictures make a lot more sense."

I suspect that twitter may have evolved,
I've never taken a lot of notice of my twitter feed but it does seem, like facebook, to have become more picture orientated

Done, I've unliked facebook and twitter, but in theory my land of the three seas page is linked. As about the only thing I do on that is share my blog, it should mean the blog posts appear on twitter from there

I'll keep an eye out and see what happens.

thanks :-)

I suspect I'll largely become invisible, because I'll only post a couple of times a week