Twitter has made a lot of negative headlines with Elon Musk in recent weeks.

The case of a young American author now shows that the platform itself is still capable of making a positive difference.

Chelsea Banning wrote in frustration on December 4: 'Only two people showed up for my book signing yesterday which left me pretty depressed.

Especially since 37 people had agreed to come to the event.

I'm kind of upset, to be honest, and a little embarrassed too."

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Banning presented her fantasy novel Of Crowns and Legends, which was published in August.

Her debut spins the legends of knights around King Arthur and the Round Table on 390 pages.

The author has been writing since she was 15, according to her website.

Despite all her imagination, she could not have imagined what her tweet about the failed event would trigger.

Within a short time, writers responded, offering congratulations and encouragement to the debutante and encouraging her to keep going, sharing their own anecdotes of horrific readings and book signings.

British writer Margaret Atwood wrote: “Welcome to the club.

I did a book signing that nobody showed up except for a guy who wanted to buy duct tape and thought I was the temp.”

The writer Stephen King, famous for his horror and fantasy novels, had a similar experience when he wanted to present his vampire novel Salem Must Be Burned in the late 1970s: “At my first book signing for Salem's Lot, exactly one customer came.

A boy who asked me, 'Hey buddy, do you know if there are any Nazi books here?'”

British writer David Nicholls freely admitted that there had been too many such embarrassing stories in his career: "The one I still remember is the performance when the bookshop staff pretended to be the audience , so I don't feel bad."

And the British fantasy and comic author Neil Gaiman, whose "Sandman" series has just been successfully filmed by Netflix, went one better: "When Terry Pratchett and I had a book signing in Manhattan for 'Good Omens', it came at all nobody.

So you're still two people ahead of us there."

Chelsea Banning came as a surprise to all the popularity.

By December 5, her post had already garnered tens of thousands of likes.

The author used the attention to present her book to the unexpected audience and a little later happily announced that the number of hits on Amazon had skyrocketed: "You all made it possible and made the dream of my dreamed 14-year-old self come true.

Back then, I used to get in trouble for preferring to write this book to paying attention.”