On Twitterspam, Followers and Culling

When I signed up for a Twitter account, I dismissed it as just another social networking fad after trying it out a short time. In mid-June, however, I decided to take it more seriously when I saw so many children's book authors, editors, agents and publishers start using Twitter.

Once I started posting regularly, I started attracting more followers (stats from TwitterCounter):

See that flat bit at the beginning of August? That's when I was attending the SCBWI conference and wasn't doing much posti