So I am going to run a Twitter experiment. I am going to tweet a book. Not a book that I have written, I am picking one of the books available on the Project Gutenberg site.
I’m still working on the process. I don’t want to post 160 characters at a time, so I’ll be
doing pictures of paragraphs. But, I know posting pictures of text can be a bit of a jerk move, because there is no way for people who rely on screen readers to read the text. Someone suggested, and I can’t remember who, posting it to Tumblr first, and then posting it to Twitter from Tumblr. That way you generate a link that people can click, and read there.
To make the actual images I am starting from the text in Word, each paragraph imports to a different slide in Powerpoint, and then exporting each slide as a JPEG.
I am thinking about doing a different background for each chapter. Our good friend Adobe Spark is a fun way to make backgrounds. I little drawing on each would be neat, but I can’t draw. But there has to be something possible.
I need to figure out a good posting solution. IFTTT can take posts from Tumblr and send them to Twitter. But, getting them into Tumblr is the issue. I have to post each image, and the text that goes along with each one. I could sit down one afternoon and batch a bunch of them all at once. But, that is time intensive. I tried doing it in Hootsuite, and I don’t think it is any easier.
Notes For Kevin 