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| My first Facebook post to ever garner over 1,000 "likes" |
The other day, Rachel and I were in Canterbury (for one of my "carpe diem" adventures).
With some time to kill, I suggested we check out the city centre branch of Waterstones (as I haven't been in a High Street book store for years).
After a short period of aimless wandering and picking up random books to see how much they cost in the wild these days, I suddenly noticed a pair of familiar faces across the way.
My eye had been drawn to this marvellous (see above) mural of Tintin and Snowy, a blow-up of the cover of King Ottokar's Sceptre.
I got Rachel to snap a picture of me in front of the artwork, thinking I'd post it to HeroPress or on my Facebook wall at some point, when recounting our day out.
Coming home, I thought I might as well also post it to the various Tintin groups I belong to on Facebook.
People often share pictures of Tintinalia they have stumbled across unexpectedly, and so I crossposted it to four groups.
And it blew up!
Within days, on the main Tintin page, my post had racked up over 1,000 likes and the count is still going up (it had passed 1,100 by the end of January).
In my 15 years on Facebook, posting to my own "wall" and sundry niche geeky forums, I've never had a post attract so much attention.
And it's doing well on other Tintin pages as well, generating some positive chatter in the process (for instance, I never realised that a previous UK book chain, which Waterstones superseded, was called Ottakar's because of the owner's love of Tintin).
I think part of this success is because Tintin has fans all around the globe, whereas most of my gaming/comic book/Doctor Who groups are predominantly home to fans from the UK, America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
If you're looking for fellow Tintin fans on Facebook, then these are the groups you need to check out:
My eye had been drawn to this marvellous (see above) mural of Tintin and Snowy, a blow-up of the cover of King Ottokar's Sceptre.
I got Rachel to snap a picture of me in front of the artwork, thinking I'd post it to HeroPress or on my Facebook wall at some point, when recounting our day out.
Coming home, I thought I might as well also post it to the various Tintin groups I belong to on Facebook.
People often share pictures of Tintinalia they have stumbled across unexpectedly, and so I crossposted it to four groups.
And it blew up!
Within days, on the main Tintin page, my post had racked up over 1,000 likes and the count is still going up (it had passed 1,100 by the end of January).
In my 15 years on Facebook, posting to my own "wall" and sundry niche geeky forums, I've never had a post attract so much attention.
And it's doing well on other Tintin pages as well, generating some positive chatter in the process (for instance, I never realised that a previous UK book chain, which Waterstones superseded, was called Ottakar's because of the owner's love of Tintin).
I think part of this success is because Tintin has fans all around the globe, whereas most of my gaming/comic book/Doctor Who groups are predominantly home to fans from the UK, America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
If you're looking for fellow Tintin fans on Facebook, then these are the groups you need to check out:
Now, admittedly, a lot of material gets posted across multiple pages, but there's enough multilingual variety in the different groups to keep any Tintinhead happy.
I've only begun posting on these pages myself since I started my reviews of the Tintin albums and films, but the interest from these pages has helped drive those particular articles on HeroPress up the site's charts of the most read pieces this month.
Even if my "gamer brain" does eventually derail my plans to get a Tintin-inspired campaign of The Troubleshooters up-and-running, this rekindling of my old passion for the works of Hergé and the adventures of his Boy Reporter is here to stay.
Another popular picture was this one, that (again) Rachel took of me in the Snowy t-shirt that she bought me as treat:
I've only begun posting on these pages myself since I started my reviews of the Tintin albums and films, but the interest from these pages has helped drive those particular articles on HeroPress up the site's charts of the most read pieces this month.
Even if my "gamer brain" does eventually derail my plans to get a Tintin-inspired campaign of The Troubleshooters up-and-running, this rekindling of my old passion for the works of Hergé and the adventures of his Boy Reporter is here to stay.
Another popular picture was this one, that (again) Rachel took of me in the Snowy t-shirt that she bought me as treat:
You are convincing me that I need to check out Tintin's adventures (I've never actually read one...!).
ReplyDeleteAt the very least, I should read some before I start wearing the Snowy t-shirt that I might have to seek out now that I've seen it. I love simple cartoon shirts like that...!
The shirt came from eBay, if that's any help: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266007462747?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=ZNjky4MQStC&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=S1A0DKm6QvK&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
DeleteIf you're thinking of starting Tintin, I'd advise checking out either The Blue Lotus, King Ottakar's Sceptre, The Secret of The Unicorn (which is paired with Red Rackham's Treasure), or Tintin In Tibet.
These are among the most highly regarded - but the main thing is to avoid Land of The Soviets and Tintin In The Congo.