Twitter as a tool of promotion

For the last two weeks i have been using Twitter to promote my blog and its various posts. I really recommend using it as a promotional tool! Here is how my experience of Twitter went: 

Twitter is a very interesting platform as it is user-friendly and a popular social networking site. Therefore twitter was the ideal platform for me to promote my blog and its various posts. The use of tags in my twitter post is a concept that I found very interesting as it allowed me to target a particular audience specifically interested in my blog’s topic. The targeted audience could easily locate my different twitter posts by searching the tags which eventually led them to it. The tags that I used in my posts and that were the most relevant to my topic were #Greekmythology, #Gmythology, #Myths and #Legends. What I also found really interesting about Twitter is this concept of retweeting, this allowed me to share interesting posts I found on other twitter accounts and in doing so interpellate my audience to respond and participate to my posts. This also gave the opportunity to my audience to repost my tweets, leading to a boost in my number of followers and to the popularity of my blog. On Twitter there is a limit of 140 characters for each post, this may be considered as a disadvantage by many but I see it as a benefit. This word limit gives me the boundaries that I need to write the most vital and interesting information in my Tweeter posts instead of writing more than necessary. Nowadays people have short attention span, which is why they will be more interested by posts that are short and to the point. Therefore Twitter provides me with the benefit of satisfying my audience as with the 140 word limit I am forced to write short posts. Twitter also provided me with a platform where I could obtain a very large audience as it is a very popular social networking site and it also gave me the opportunity to share various materials with my followers. The platform does not only limit you to textual materials, it also allows you to share links of other websites, videos and photos. This provided me with the opportunity to create more interactive posts which is what catches the interest of the audience the most nowadays. On twitter there is the option of retweet and reply which is very interesting as it gives the audience the opportunity to participate and interact. I was able to have a two way communication with my audience which really helped improve the communication between me and my followers.

Greek mythology vs Roman mythology

I recently found an interesting article discussing the differences and similarities between Greek and Roman mythology. The author of this post provided very interesting and useful information on the topic. Here is a comment that i posted on the blog as a response to the post, i hope to get a response soon! 

"I find your approach to the Greek and Roman mythology really interesting as it takes into consideration both the differences and similarities between both mythologies, but you could have elaborated more on the similarities between both as it is also interesting to observe the various similarities they have. You mentioned that the Roman myths were adopted from the Greek ones. It is partly true but originally the Romans adopted many of the Etruscans’ gods, who lived in northern Italy before them, and then adapted them to Roman ideas and beliefs. Eventually these deities were combined with aspects of Gods from Greece. An example is Jupiter who began as the Etruscan sky god Tinia, who was then combined with Zeus the Greek sky god. You also mentioned that in Roman myths emphasis is not put on the physical appearance of the gods, that this is left to the imagination of the readers but aren’t we influenced in some way by the various paintings and statues of the deities that were created though time? The fact that you noticed the absence of mortal heroes in Roman mythology is also very interesting, I’ve never thought about this. Are you sure there aren’t any legends of mortal heroes in Roman mythology? I can’t seem to find one myself."

Link to the article: http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/userstory20442-greek-mythology-vs-roman-mythology.html