Ninth wave of @iambapoet's #twelvewavesofchristmas, and already, the total number of page views is above 1,000! Nice little bump to begin the new year. Thanks to all who visit, read, listen and share.

Obviously, @iambapoet's use of the hashtag #twelvewavesofchristmas was always gonna be a one-time deal. But maybe, from Christmas 2023 onward, I could do a 60-poet annual retrospective of the previous twelve months with the (somewhat tortured) hashtag
#thehostsincechristmaspast.

Roughly a fortnight since wave twelve of @iambapoet was published, and here's how the page views are looking. It's important to remember that this headline figure will include site visits from folk coming in via the #twelvewavesofchristmas campaign.

God bless @hootsuite! Without its powerful, browser-based, easy-to-use tweet scheduling functionality, the #twelvewavesofchristmas social media campaign I set up to celebrate all 200 of @iambapoet's contributors (so far) would never have run as smoothly as it has!

Aaaaaand ... breathe! I've finally finished scheduling all 200 tweets for @iambapoet's upcoming social media event, the #twelvewavesofchristmas – a twelve-day celebration of every poet who's appeared in the journal in its first three years. Fun starts on Christmas Day at 2am GMT!

Well, well! In all the excitement of yesterday's publication of wave twelve of @iambapoet and sneak preview of upcoming #twelvewavesofchristmas, I let it pass without mention that it was three years to the date when this tweet sparked the birth of...

Day one of @iambapoet's Twelve Waves of Christmas (Dec 25th-Jan 5th) is now scheduled and ready to tweet. Expect 20 poets – one an hour from 2am GMT – to pop up in your timeline on Christmas Day in celebration of three years of 'iamb' online. #iamb #poetry #twelvewavesofchristmas

Only another 199 of these to schedule ... #twelvewavesofchristmas