That top retweet would be from the writer/director of ‘St. Vincent.’
I’ve heard the phrase so much I’m surprised it hasn’t made me ill.
Go viral. Go viral. Go viral.
Yeah, I know.
Shortly after the Syracuse New Times site published my review of “St. Vincent” today, I tweeted the link on my Twitter account. And while I was social media-ing this and that regarding my WordPress world just now, I noticed in my email inbox the Twitter notification of a retweet by a certain film writer and director by the name of Theodore Melfi. Yeah, he’s the first-timer who broke through the tough business to “St. Vincent” made with big stars.
Thank you, Theodore, for the retweet.
How does this work now?
Go viral. Go viral. Go viral.
Have you had any of your social media posts go viral? Has anybody you’ve posted about spread your post afterward on their accounts in a good way? In a bad way?
Mark Bialczak 
Dang! You had so many comments it took forever to get to the bottom! Just wondering if anything exciting has happened in the past 50 years it took me to be able to get down here far enough to leave a reply? LOL Congratulations! I actually got some retweets from that new band One Direction. Thought that was kinda cool.
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Well, PJ your retweets are way cool. Wow! No, nothing happened except I am happy Melfi read my tweet and gave me the RT. That’s my reward. 🙂
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Well, you never know where that will take you! 🙂
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This is so fantastic and such an incredible experience, Mark! Wow! An example of how tweeting works and reaches more people. Cannot wait until you are re-hired into journalism and can make a difference with our writing! You are awesome, Mark! You go!!
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Thanks for your belief, Robin, but don’t hold your breath. Seriously, the rules of that game change every day. I’m a happy blogger this second. 🙂
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Yay, you! Awesome, Mark 🙂 Am not a big fan of Twitter personally, but I appreciate that it’s an equalizer–don’t need to be famous to be noticed. Just clever 😉 Here’s my retweet–I was over the moon: http://funnynamesblog.com/2013/09/17/mo-rocca-mo-rockin/
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What’s better than a brush with celebrity?
Not much. You can try to take the high road and say you’re above that sort of thing but you’re not. I’m not. Nobody is.
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You’re above it, I’m above it. Until …
To put it into perspective, it’s nice to know that the guy who wrote and directed his first major successful film is tweeting and reading his social media just like the guy who is writing blogs and freelance magazine pieces for a living right now. Ya know what I mean, Mark?
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I am disappointed that at least some of my most loyal followers don’t get it (I do not ask) that retweeting my book published say at least every six weeks ago would be really helpful.
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No, you never ask, Carl. When I was the music critic for the big daily, if a front man begged for applause, I was bound to write how lame that looked.
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That’s cool Mark. If they notice the tweet then that must mean they’ve been following and being quiet.
Cool.
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That would be a nice way to read it, Paul, but what I think it means is that he is searching the title of is film to see how many critics are reviewing it and then tweeting links to their reviews. My guess, anyway. 🙂
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That is majorly cool beans. I love Twitter, always fun to get followed and rt’ed. Enjoy!
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I bet country folks have given you the old RT often, Apple Pie. I’d hope so! One of the Perry boys of the Band Perry did me the honor after they played the NY state fair free court and I tweeted my big daily review link, like, two seconds after my tweet.
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i have no idea. i post my blogs on twitter and send them off into the universe. and that is it. i am the worst tweeter on the planet.
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Beth, I bet you are a beautiful tweeter. I will start following you and report in on your tweets. 🙂
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thanks mark, but it’s truly just my blog and nothing else at this point )
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Me, too, on my Twitter.
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I think I would be afraid to go viral these days, lest I end up quarantined from humanity with no internet access for 21 days….
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Yeah, you know, the definition of dilemma, Bill. 🙂
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You deserve viral posts every day, Chum . You’re a talented writer and have the heart to go with it. I think this is pretty awesome. 🙂
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Thanks, Aud. One of these days something will fall into place for one of us, I’m sure, and we’ll pull all of us up. 🙂
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On Sunday, “Visit Sleepy Hollow” shared my post on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” on their Facebook page. That was exciting. But your news is even more spectacular. Congratulations, Mark. You never know who’s reading you. ‘-)
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Yours on Sunday was very spectacular, I think, Judy. Nothing sleepy there. 🙂
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Thanks, Mark. I really appreciate that … especially coming from you. 😉
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Nice, Mark! 🙂
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That’s wonderful Mark!!! Anything happen since then?
I don’t have Twitter. But I have noticed that sometimes someone(s) is tweeting my blog. I don’t know how tweeting my blog works since I don’t have it. But I never notice anything change here. I’ve had reposts and FB posts made and those sometimes make a difference. I always love it when someone says they saw my post because of someone else sharing it in some manner.
Your fiefdom should be spread about, by the way, it’s a good place. 😉
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I see that my post about the repost has gotten more views than the original review post here. But the tweet was linked to the post on the other site, and I do not know how many views that one gets. I hope one zillion! 🙂 It’s all who catches the eye of somebody with a lot of followers, who passes it to somebody with even more, etc. Not science, but like a Jenga game with a Quija board on top. 🙂
Thank you about my Barney Fifedom, by the way. 🙂
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😉 No problem Mark. I like your kind of neighborhood. 🙂
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Exciting. You never know what will go viral.
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I know, what a crap shoot. 🙂
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No. :p
But I’m glad you did. 😀
Diana xo
p.s. I’ve never been freshly pressed either. 😦
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Yeah, you and I are both sitting on that island, Diana. 😦
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Congrats Mark. This could be the beginning of something great for you. I sure hope it will. Remember us little people when you hit the big time. It couldn’t happen to a better person.
Nothing of mine has ever gone viral, although I’ve contracted several viruses on my computer and in my body over the years. Not quite as exciting as yours though. In fact, just plain pains in my case.
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Nah, Angie. No big numbers. Still the same old me. That’s OK. I like hanging out with my peeps.
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Good for you, Mark! I’m a big twitter fan(although I’m on a bit of a slow ride now because I’m working on this thing called blogging, lol) and I haven’t hit viral. I have some great follows and my most popular tweet has 54 retweets and 42 likes 😀 AND I can’t believe I wasn’t following you #NF and… I would have done exactly what you did, thank Theodore Melfi publicly 🙂 The thing about getting something to go viral is that it has to get traction via views. So I hope to add to that by RTing you with an @ mention to TM and a new hashtag #MovieReview which according to ritetag https://ritetag.com/ has a good chance of being found. Here it is: https://twitter.com/AngieMc6/status/526822981881053184 Hope this helps!
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Angie McFly, you are a guardian viral angel. Thank you, my friend. Follow me, follow you. Wasn’t there a a song when we were kids? I know there was …
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♬ Just one single tear in each passing year ♬ (saw Genesis in Philly 1982 ❤) Angel ~ fly ~ nice 😀
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How cool for you! Congratulations! 😀
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It was nice to see that he saw my tweet, Rachel.
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I bet! Very cool, indeed! 😀
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Nothing viral, but I have had authors and musicians retreat and/or follow after a mention. 🙂 Congrats on your newfound glory! 😀
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I got followed on Twiiter by one of the Perry boys immediately after I tweeted the link to my review of The Band Perry a couple of years ago. I thought that was cool. Congrats on your re’s and follows, too!
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Once I tweeted I hate Telus (Canadian phone/internet provider) because they were making me mad. Seconds later they followed me. It was kinda creepy LOL.
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Wow. Then you had no dial tone and the WiFi went out …
No, but that is kind of creepy. The Flying Monkey were looking in your windows …
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my internet and cell phone are provided by another company…it’s when I canceled my land line haha
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Sorry. They save the Flying Monkeys for those that cancel the bundle. 🙂
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Pretty awesome!
I had the writer and producer of a show I was watching “on demand” favorite my tweets about the show. That’s about it.
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That’s way above ‘that’s about it,’ level, Jeaneatte. Really, you are so dang modest.
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No viral activity here, Mark, but I hope you get everything you wish for.
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Ah, Ann, it doesn’t really matter, you know?! Life will not change in my fiefdom. Now I have to go read about your session from yesterday and how you changed lives!
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