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Q. Is it better to post a link to my illustration to Twitter, or the illustration itself?
A. I used to always post a link, to encourage people to go to my blog. Nowadays, however, I'm finding that fewer people follow links to images. Instead, I post the image directly to Twitter, but make sure my name and URL are part of the image, and I also try to squeeze in my Twitter id as well.
And even when I post an image directly to Twitter, I find I get far more response if I make the descriptive text interesting, rather than just "My doodle of the day:" or something similarly bland. What I suspect: that some third-party tools that people are using on mobile devices are NOT showing the images, but just the descriptive text and a link.
Last updated on September 30, 2014 by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
