Is Your Character on Twitter?

[glennsong]

I know you're probably on Twitter doing social media for your comic, but is your character on Twitter? Do you use Twitter as another way to explore your character or extend the universe of your comic? If your character is on Twitter, how do you go about playing your character?

Do you do the same with any other social media like Instagram? Fake FB profile?

I have a Twitter bot for my main character. I wrote a twitter bot that tweets out quotes every few hours. It's an experiment (which I haven't really kept up with), but I did enjoy writing all of her tweets. The only downside is to make it look like there's a ton of variety, I'd have to pre-author a ton of tweets.

[carloswebcomic]

Da whu da fark....?

Why?
I guess it's a role playing thing?

[mariusthered]

i'm a bloke in my 40's i think it would be a bit odd for me to do this as my main four Characters are teen age girls so no. however i never knew you could do this until i read this thread so interesting. I might use that for another reason.

[WakaXO]

No I don't have any accounts set up for my characters. I did mull over the idea of making my one character a Tumblr account (It would have only been cat related posts lol) but I scrapped the idea, I doubt I would remember to keep it up, I'm bad at keeping my own accounts up! ^^;

[maxzaguishi]

my character is everywhere lol XD
Search Zagushi on twitter
on instagram
or even patreon (7u7)

[jerreaudriessen]

The god of my comic universe has a Twitter

[glennsong]

I guess it's a role playing thing?

Yeah it would be like a roleplaying thing, but that's essentially what you're doing when you're writing characters for a story. You're role playing them, trying to get into their heads and express it through a comic. This would be expressing your character in a different way, as if they existed and had a life of their own.

however i never knew you could do this until i read this thread so interesting. I might use that for another reason.

There was an instagram I saw (I don't know what the name is) where each image was a 1-frame comic drawing that told the story about a girl and her daily life. It seemed to be a different way of engaging with readers since there was almost direct input by commenters on how the story should go.

[glennsong]

@jerreaudriessen Cool. Do you use it to supplement the worldbuilding you do in the main comic? I'm curious how you use your twitter for the character.

[timinabox24]

no but now I want to :"D I shoild take a few weeks off and make the accounts for all of my characters and then have th cause drama with each other all over the place :"D

[Potoh]

Even though I have a Twitter account since last year I have no idea how Twitter works and how to use it to promote my work. I'd like to get into it more, and also thought about a Twitter for my webcomic, but at the moment I'm mostly staring at my Twitter and think: "This is so messy, where do I have to start? What's this all about?".
It just seems that you have to be really, really strongly involved and react to everything, which is very time consuming. But maybe that's a misperception and I need to give it another shot.

[SpavVy]

About three years ago I did that for my characters but with facebook and I played with bitstrips xD

If my characters were real and actually did have twitter accounts it would be a disaster!

[glennsong]

@junorunow I was like that too. Some shameless self-promo, but I wrote a primer on using twitter on a review site I write for called The Strip Show Revue. Hopefully, you'll find that helpful if you plan to try out Twitter. I was where you were at a year ago, but I think I've figured some stuff out with it.

[jerreaudriessen]

Yeah, I use it for worldbuilding that i may or may not use. Or for other comic ideas. Or just fun God roleplay...

[Potoh]

Oh wow, that's really cool, thank you! I'll definitley check it out!

[shazzbaa]

Haha, I used to do that with my D&D characters! I've also heard Squirrel Girl is doing some really fun stuff with her Twitter tying into the comics!

But no, for my comic I don't. I actually kinda try to limit how much contact readers have with the characters outside of the comic -- I want the comic itself to be where you meet and get to know them, so for my story, being able to follow them on Twitter would cheapen some things a little, since it's easier to see what they're thinking in a way.

Plus my characters are in a pseudo-medieval world, so anything they tweet would have to be non-canon extras by definition. xD I think it might be fun to have a twitter account for a character who could actually have one in-story!

[miseryhunting]

I have never used it like that, but I know what you mean!
In Bulgaria, there is this really popular TV show about a group of roommates and they're very popular on Facebook because of the way they use it.
They don't update with stuff like "the next episode is airing today, etc" but the characters write messages discussing how they feel after this and that, like confessionals. They make small vlogs too, and while everyone knows it's just the characters, people really get into it and reply back.
I dunno, it just seems like a really interesting way to promote your works through social media.

[Thesleepypencil]

I have a concept for a comic with a super hero and her and 3 other characters are on twitter. But it's a big project I'm not getting to anytime soon

[indagold]

Maybe if my comic becomes super popular? Although I'd just set up an ask blog or Q&A like most people. Character accounts sound like something for RPs though and I couldn't give two rotten hotdogs about that unless I was still 12.

[eleoza]

omg that's such a fun idea! xD
I don't think I could do it for my characters though, I'm barely active on twitter or any social media platform myself. But yes, totally cool. I'd follow characters of my fav comics xD

[insomniascrawl]

I think it's an interesting idea, but not one that I would do. I can barely keep up with my own social media, much less manage a fictional characters D: