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with G. D. Falksen

G. D. Falksen
G. D. Falksen needs your nomination for a Shorty Award!
The Twitter of G. D. Falksen, author, historian and man about town.
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What's your best tweet?
"Post a Story for Haiti": Lots of free fiction online. In return, please support the relief efforts in Haiti: http://crossedgenr...
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What are six things you could never do without?
Tea, books, computers, curry, umbrellas and socks. Definitely socks.
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How do you use Twitter in your professional life?
I use it to let people know what is going on with my work, like when I've done blog posts or when my next book will be out.
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What's your favorite Twitter app?
The selective tweets on Facebook where you can have a tweet show up as a status update without having to leave Twitter.
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Twitter or Facebook?
Twitter. It's far more convenient.
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What was the funniest trend you've seen?
#gdfalksenisinfactavampire
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What feature should Twitter add?
No idea. I think the reason why it does so well is because it's pretty perfect as is.
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Who do you wish had a Twitter feed but doesn't?
Basil Liddell Hart.
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What are some words or phrases you refuse to shorten for brevity?
All of them!
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Have you ever unfollowed someone? Who and why?
Nope, nor do I expect to.
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Why should we vote for you?
Because I'm not boring.
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Hashtag you created that you wish everyone used?
I haven't created any, but I'm very amused by #gdfalksenisinfactavampire
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How do you make your tweets unique?
By tweeting the things I say or are said around me.
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What inspires you to tweet?
My often surreal conversations with people and my unfettered imagination, not to mention the world being a very strange place.
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Ever get called out for tweeting too much?
Nope.
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140 characters of advice for a new user?
Have fun and be random. Which is less than 140 characters, but still good advice.
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How long can you go without a tweet?
As long as any one can.
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What question are we not asking here that we should?
What is your favorite color?
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Why should people follow you?
Updates on my work and for the most random tweets ever.
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Why'd you start tweeting?
Because my friends started yelling at me that I'd be left in the stone age if I did not get a Twitter.
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Has Twitter changed your life? If yes, how?
I got a smart phone partly so I can put the random stuff that goes on around me online.
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What do you wish people would do more of on Twitter?
I wish that people would use Twitter more for spreading world news and current events.
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How will the world change in the next year?
It has already changed: I have purchased my first electric teakettle, reminding me that ours is a strange and wonderful modern world.
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What are some big Twitter faux pas?
Spamming. That sort of takes the cake.
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What will the world be like 10 years from now?
Better. I hope.
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