Stardust and the Retweet
Neil Gaiman’s Stardust is one of my favorite stories. The film version is a lovely fairy tale with an amazing soundtrack, and it makes me feel good whenever I watch it. The book is quite different, much darker and more adult. I love them both however. So when I saw that a new hardcover edition was being released (Stardust: The Gift Edition), I placed my order on Amazon and waited for it to arrive.
It arrived today, and after I opened the package, I sent this tweet:
EBooks are great but some books were meant to be held in hand like this brand new edition of Stardust by @neilhimself twitter.com/Ladewig/status…
— Scott Ladewig (@Ladewig) October 31, 2012
And then this happened:
It may not mean much to the average person, but to get an RT from Neil Gaiman for something I said is pretty much like getting a big bag of awesome for Christmas.
And then my phone started to chirp. When your tweet gets sent out to 1.7+ million people, a few are bound to respond. So far 50+ RTs and a similar number of favorites. It doesn’t really mean much, but it made for a fun, albeit noisy, evening. Yes, I could have turned off the alerts, but it was more fun leaving then on. Like a little Twitter slot machine that hit three bars.
So last night was fun, but today it is back to Twitter obscurity. And peace and quiet.
This is so awesome Scott. What a great feeling to get the RT from Neil … himself. Bad, I know.