It all comes down to this, y’all. Where do your truest passions lay in the book social media universe?
BOOKSTAGRAM? or BOOK TWITTER?

BOOKSTAGRAM Pros:
📷 amazing book pics
📷 fun polls, Q&As, book info easily accessible in Insta Stories
📷 creativity: explore filters, colours, set-up
📷 dabble in video making w/out committing to a YouTube
TWITTER Pros:
🐦 a lot of engagement
🐦 easy access to pubs, agents, authors
🐦 build a community & find readers like you
Sha I do prefer IG but I miss a “cons” for IG and Twitter 😉
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I wanted to highlight the positive, since I know as frequent users of IG and Twitter we can find those pros super fast.
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I am all about book Twitter, because I suck at taking pictures and I don’t really read physical books, but I can type words.
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My lack of ability with book photos is why I let Mandy do alll the Bookstagram work now!
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Oh,Instagram all the way! But I’m slightly biased as I don’t use Twitter at all. Chana handles that aspect of our social media presence.
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Don’t use Twitter from preference, then, or Chana had dibs? Because I know I volunteered to take over Twitter when Mandy said she didn’t enjoy — and I was more than happy to let her do all the Insta work. The split works perfectly for us, since we both landed with our prefered platforms.
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Book Twitter is umm… not a healthy place… most of the time, but I still love it. I think I often forget about the actually posting pictures part of Bookstagram, so I’m going with Book Twitter.
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Agreed. I have great conversations on book Twitter, which is why it’s my preferred of the two, but it has also caused my mental health to dip several times. I want to say “I try to be careful of who I follow” and leave it there, but Twitter’s algorithm also highlights posts liked by users you follow so there’s really no way to have an entirely “clean” feed. It’s still a better way to interact than Bookstagram, so I give it points.
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I’m actually really into Litsy right now… 🙂
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I haven’t heard of Litsy before!
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I think it’s fairly new. Only a couple years old. It is kind of a combination of Instagram and Goodreads.
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That sounds interesting. I’m going to check it out now!
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This is so great minds meeting! I posed this same question in my Weekly Wrap up post!! I actually love both for different reasons. On Twitter you can also personally message those you mutually follow. Instagram is just so satisfying because your feed is all you. ❤️
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Oh wow, haha! It’s for sure a popular question. Those are two great reasons to love the apps.
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I feel like Twitter has a lot of drama, so I choose IG (though I don’t use it personally haha)
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You’re not wrong about the drama, lol. IG just has nice pictures and, okay, the occasional inflamed comments section (but it’s easy to avoid).
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If I really had to pick, I would probably pick bookstagram. The drama and honestly toxic attitudes on twitter can make difficult but I have met some nice people there. I do struggle with bookstagram a lot but just keep swimming lol :p
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Twitter really does highlight the worst in people, doesn’t it? I find myself muting quite a few people, but I do appreciate how easy the platform makes it to see what others are doing/reading, etc. The bookstagram struggle is real though! Keep on swimming!!
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LOL yes just keep swimming! I’m just doing pictures when I have some time and also ideas. I don’t want to force something that I don’t love right now. Thank you 😀
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THE GRAM!
It not only has great pics, but there is easy access to memes. A must need in my daily life XD
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Memes. are. crucial. This response is very good.
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I shall scream from the rooftops about the glory of book twitter until my dying breath.
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