Thanks Mark, looking forward to your tweets!

Have a great day.

Thanks, Stuart. Back atcha!

Welcome aboard Mark, I am following you. :-)

Best, Stuart aka http://twitter.com/writer99

My Twitter ID is http://twitter.com/MarkTerenceChap

Hello Erica & all fellow tweeps. I am following from Australia. Have a great day.

Best, Stuart aka http://twitter.com/writer99

Hello all,

Here is my twitter: http://twitter.com/EJStevensAuthor

Thank you
xx,
E.J.

Hey Gina,

My Twitter grader goes up and down like my Amazon ratings. I give up trying to figure it out :]

Today I was 96.1, as are you :]

Yet our stats are waaaaaaaaaaay different.


Gina's Stats
Rank 222,133 out of 5,714,505
Followers 504
Following 337
Updates 1,293
Rating 96.1

My Stats
Rank 222,133 out of 5,714,505
Followers 594
Following 594
Updates 846
Rating 96.1

Friend or Follow is my favorite site: It allows you to manage your Twitter account by:

1. See who is following you that "you" are not following.

2. See who isn't following you that you "are" following

3. And lists everyone that you are following in one page.

http://friendorfollow.com/Dee_Marie_SOA/...

Just a word of caution...everyone has just found this site...so if you get 0 numbers on all of your searches, try again later. It just means the site is over-loaded.

Dee, I just used that grader to find out my grade. It's 94 %. I wish I'd got that in my maths exam at school... seems I'm doing better at Twitter.

Has anyone noticed their 'following' number changing when they haven't added/subtracted anyone? Mine is going up and down like a yo-yo and I have not touched a thing.

http://twitter.com/gcolliasuzuki

G'day Jen & Bryl,

I am happilly following from the land of Kangaroos! As we say in 'Twiiterland'....tweet you later. ;-)

Stuart aka http://twitter.com/writer99

Welcome to the Twitter madness thread Jen & Bryl.

I have added you both to our group's Twitter listing, and am on my way to add you to my personal Twitter page.

Oh, and damn, I was wondering why all my brain cells felt like they were not firing of late...too many early morning Tweets...thanks for the info Jen :]

Dee Marie: http://twitter.com/Dee_Marie_SOA

I Twitter, but I hear it kills brain cells. The sacrifices we make for art =)

Here's my account: http://twitter.com/JennKnox

I'll go find ya'll now...

Jen

Here's my twitter if you'd like to add me. http://twitter.com/bryl

The latter option. I odn't think anyone can be persuaded to a course of action in 140 characters.

Question 1.
How do "you" use Twitter to promote your books?

Question 2.
Do you think Twitter has garnered new readers and sales or do you feel it it is just another distraction from writing?

Hey Rownea,

I have no idea if that would help or not. If your rating is 98%, I would think you are doing the right things already :]

Unfortunately, there are some people/groups on Twitter that just gather as many followers as possible...THEN, when you follow back, they un-follow you. I always un-follow those.

I also block anyone that is from a questionable site (as in there one and only post is “Tweet me for a good time” Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww! )

I also clear out my listings on a weekly basis. If I have followed someone for over a week (and know that they have been Twitter) and they are not following back, I usually un-follow.

But, I tend to be an organizer, and am constantly tweaking everything to see what works the best :]

Hey, Dee,

Would ditching most of the people who don't follow me back (like libraries and newsreaders) improve my grade?

Best,
Rowena

Oh, and if you ever want a quick way to find out if you are following someone and they are not following you, here is a great site:

http://friendorfollow.com

Hey Rowena,

Thanks for posting the link to the Twitter Grader :]

http://twitter.grader.com

I usually check it at least once a week. I am now up to 95% (which is not bad, since I have been offline most of the summer due to major construction on my house).

Hey Dianne,

Thanks for the update to your Twitter URL. I will add it ASAP to our group's Twitter listing :]

Hi Dianne, I am following you from the land down under.;0)

Stuart aka http://twitter.com/writer99

Pamela, that's great about your book and I look forward to following you. I'll look for you on page 73 of the other book with women who are getting on with their lives. thanks.

Good advice, thanks. :)

Yvonnew wrote: "I maintain social profiles for my clients. As a Author some of the things you can twitter about are the following:

Signing a book contract
2. Sending your book to the publisher (include the pub..."

Dee,

I think I left my middle initial out ...
http://twitter.com/diannegsagan

That should work,
Thanks,
Dianne

Dee wrote: "Hi Dianne,
I can get your twitter addy to work. Thought it might be the period at the end of your URL but even removing that, it still would not work.

If you Tweet me at
http://twitter.com/De..."

I twitter at http://twitter.com/diannegssagan. It is quick and easy even though I don't do it everyday.

Elizabeth,

The link even works in your own quote of my link. Maybe your ISP was having trouble yesterday?

Rowena

Rowena wrote: "How many of you have discovered http://twitter.grader.com ?"

Sweet! My grade is 93. :o)

Rowena wrote: "How many of you have discovered http://twitter.grader.com ?

I think it is interesting. Since I started trying to persuade people to vote for me in a contest that ends today, my ranking has droppe..."

Rowena,
Could you please repeat the twitter grader address? Clicking on it only gets me "website not found."
Thanks!
EB

How many of you have discovered http://twitter.grader.com ?

I think it is interesting. Since I started trying to persuade people to vote for me in a contest that ends today, my ranking has dropped from 98.7% to 98%

Which is worth knowing.

Welcome to our group of 'super tweeps', great to have you with us....I am following. ;o)

Stuart aka http://twitter.com/writer99

I definitely Twitter... from time to time. I trying to be more active with it these days. I tend to steer more toward Facebook, but I'm trying. LOL.

http://www.twitter.com/christiesilvers

G'day Hugh,

Welcome to our group of: super tweeps! I am following you from the land where Kangaroos roam.

See you on Twitter!!!!

Stuart aka http://www.twitter.com/writer99

I love Twitter.

Hugh: www.twitter.com/mollyfyde

Jo-Anne Sorry to hear that you are still having problems with your account.

Elizabeth I have added you to our group's Twitter listing.

Welcome to the group Elizabeth, I am following:-)

Hope Twitter sorts out the mess Jo Anne, and you are back 'tweeting' soon.

Ciao, Stuart aka http://twitter.com/writer99

Hi everyone,
Just found this group. What a good idea!
Here's my Twitter address.

http://twitter.com/ElizabethBlake

Thanks, and I'll follow you!

Thanks Dee, these twitter icons are nice.

YvonneW
Author Assistant

Hi JK & all fellow Twitters,

I am following JK looking forward to your tweets!

Stuart aka http://twitter.com/writer99

Like the old saying goes...when one door shuts, another one opens :]

We look forward to your next novel.

Dee wrote: "Sorry you are still having problems with Twitter Lookman. I always enjoyed reading your Tweets :]"

^__^ Thanks Dee.

I really must get down to writing more novels and screenplays. Twitter was a great way to loose time.
LOOKMAN

Hi J.K.
I just added you to our group's Twitter listing and I am also now following your Tweets :]

Dee Marie
http://twitter.com/Dee_Marie_SOA

Just found this great site for free Twitter buttons & Icons.

http://twittericon.com/index.php

It drove me crazy for a few days but I'm good now. Mine is http://www.twitter.com/jkmuta

Sorry you are still having problems with Twitter Lookman. I always enjoyed reading your Tweets :]

You are right! Twitter looks a less attractive takeover. When my twitter worked Friendsfeed was a good addition to Twitter.

What I never understood was why so many applications were allowed on twitter. Many sought to make money by selling links to more friends etc. I never understood why it was not taken in house.

The Twitter problems were apparently caused by some unknown Russian group (FSB anyone?) targeting one Twitter user, a Georgian dissident. The denial of service (DOS) attack, flooded they guy's website and address with millions of tweets and and posts from a net of zombie (controlled without the user's knowledge) PCs - a so called botnet.

In the process, it brought down the entire Twitter site. The Georgian's Facebook site was also targetted, and Facebook suffered a degradation of service, but not an outright collapse.

I was lucky. I was away from the internet during this period. I haven't noticed any chnage in the service; but I think that Twitter should have instituted counter-measures much sooner, and should have had preventative load switching and bandwidth measures in place to prevent such a collapse occurring in the first place.

I have just given up with twitter. Al the recent changes have just made it useless to me. I have been assured for months my link http://twitter.com/lookman_author was on-line and working. That is so far from the truth. Now they have deleted around 5000 followers. The sooner some one else takes over twitter the better.

Poor Twitter...it appears that some hacker clipped Twitter's wings this week :[

Dee wrote: "Hey Ross,

Thank you SOOOoOOOOoo much for watching over things while the contractors are "working" on putting a roof over my head :]

You are the Bestest!" Oh Dee, stop that, you are making me blush! Glad to hear that you will soon have a roof over your head ;-)

Hey Ross,

Thank you SOOOoOOOOoo much for watching over things while the contractors are "working" on putting a roof over my head :]

You are the Bestest!

Hey Emma, Aretha, & Susan,

I have added you all to our group's Twitter listing and I am also following you all on Twitter :]

Dee Marie
http://twitter.com/Dee_Marie_SOA