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Best Twitter Hashtags For Writers

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There are 175 million registered users on Twitter producing about 95 million tweets every day.

One of the key ways Tweeters keep our communications useful is by using hashtags and very vibrant literary communities have grown up around specific hashtags.

So what are they — and how can you best use them?

Here's what Twitter has to say about

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10 Ways Twitter Can Make You A Better Writer.

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Here are ten things writers need to do that are fostered by the constraints of Twitter and other micro-blogging apps: creative intelligence white flower

  1. Evaluate yourself as a writer. Who are you? What topics interest you? What do you want to express – in this tweet and over time?  If you haven't asked yourself such questions starting out, you'll come to them before long.
  2. Make style reflect content. What writing style comes naturally to you — informational, snarky, amusing, inspirational? What style best suits your

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Creative Intelligence Quotes

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This tweet arrived today in my Twitter DM box: “Hi Orna, thanks for the quotes you tweet, especially your own ones. Have you collected these together anywhere?”

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I was going to reply that I hadn't and then I thought, you know I probably should, and next thing I knew, I had.

  • Freethinking: asking questions that may not have answers. Belief or nonbelief: having answers that may not be questioned.
  • It takes a great reader to make a great book.
  • Success comes when your desire to achieve exceeds your fear of foolishness or failure.
  • To let something go, it helps to know that you're holding it.
  • You say the world is made of atoms? I say

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