Twitter exchange. List your twitter name here.

[Decon]

Alan and Keira. Now following

http://twitter.com/DeclanConner

[lacymarankevinmichael]

Am following everyone in the thread.  You can read my musings at www.twitter.com/lacymaran

[Staceywb]

Great idea!  I'm following everyone that had links and will go back and follow the rest. http://twitter.com/Stacey_WB

[Mel Comley]

I'm @melcom1, off to follow those I'm not already following!

 

[Emeline Danvers]

Here's mine:

http://twitter.com/emelinedanvers

Hey, someone should start an indie authors list.  You can do that on twitter, right?  (hey, don't laugh, I still can't figure out how to do anything more than follow someone, tweet, and retweet.)

Already following everybody.  I think.  Let me know if I missed you.

[Marcin Wrona]

I'm here:

http://twitter.com/MarcinWrona

Have followed everybody else in this thread. The better we all figure out this social media the kids are rabbiting on about, the ... well, better.

[Raymond Birdsell]

Now following everyone in the thread so far.

Mandatory humor rules apply.  Make me laugh out loud in real life and win the pink stuffed bunny.

My daughter will not be happy about it - but I'll send it to you anyway.  ;-)

EDIT:  Adding my Twitter link might help - I did say I wasn't much of a morning person - right?

http://twitter.com/raymondbirdsell

[mmgurung]

I'm mmgurung - http://twitter.com/#!/mmgurung

Looking forward to following you on Twitter!

- Michelle

[Harry Shannon]

On twitter I'm @HarryShannon 

I know. Original, huh?   

[Raymond Birdsell]

On twitter I'm @HarryShannon 

I know. Original, huh?   

Harry - great bookshelf - lots of titles available is a good thing I would imagine - yes?

Now following you and Michelle (above your post) as well.

[Cheri Schmidt]

cheriaschmidt - Thanks!

[SheaMacLeod]

http://twitter.com/#!/SMacLeod_Author

Thanks!

[JenniJames]

Wahoo!

Woke up to a bunch of new KB authors following me!
So much fun!
*grins*

PS I did a step by step guide for twitter newbies on another thread, if anyone wants me to send it to their messages, I can...?

[SheaMacLeod]

DONE!  I was already following some of you (That sounds so stalker-ish.), but now I've got ALL of you!  BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ooops, sorry.  Got carried away for a minute. 

[Raymond Birdsell]

DONE!  I was already following some of you (That sounds so stalker-ish.), but now I've got ALL of you!  BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ooops, sorry.  Got carried away for a minute. 

Okay - new rule:  Say something funny on Twitter or I un-follow you.  (Kidding of course - but the pressure is on!!)

[shavens]

Twittering is hard work, not least because it the luck of the draw in having your tweets re tweeted.

Follow me on twitter and I will return the complement and mutually re tweet your tweets.

Just send a Direct message if you have something that you need retweeting. We may not reach the 4,000 followers Konrath has to get our message out, but with a combined effort we could get near.

@DeclanConner

http://twitter.com/DeclanConner

I'm @samboh

I'll come to the thread every day to follow everyone.

[Charliegirl]

I was just about to make a topic like this too

http://twitter.com/charliegirl9

I hope it's alright to add all you other guys too  

[Ruth Harris]

I'm new at twitter & am now following many in this thread.  I couldn't figure out how to follow people who didn't give a link to their follow page. If you can clue me in, I'd like to follow all.

My own twitter name is @rhzuri....but I don't know how to make the link myself.

Au secours....lol

[JenniJames]

Here's your link:

http://twitter.com/rhzuri

[Ruth Harris]

Ooooh, Jenni, thanks!  It's magic!  Seriously, how did you do that?  I need to step up & out of my twitter cluelessness.  Thanks again. Very much appreciated.

[Decon]

I've got everyone upto here.

[edwardgtalbot]

MIne is :

http://www.twitter.com/egtalbot

Will go through and catch everyone when I get home to my own PC

[SheaMacLeod]

Thanks to all of you I now have 100 followers!  Yay! 

[jabeard]

Okay, I think I got everybody. It got a little confusing. :/ I could have sworn there already was a twitter thread, but I've been networking so much lately, things start to blur together. That might have been on Good Reads.

http://twitter.com/#!/jabeard_rf

[Victorine]

I think it's great for authors to follow each other on Twitter, but remember, Twitter is just like any other social media.  If all you're doing is tweeting ads, or retweeting other people's ads, you'll get ignored.  There's so much tweeting going on, there are much more interesting things to read than just a steady stream of book ads.

Someone posted a while back that they try to remember the 80/20 rule.  Post about other more interesting things 80 percent of the time, and book ads 20 percent of the time.  Think about it.  If you are reading posts from an author, and they're posting something interesting about their day, or a funny tweet about a movie they saw, you get to know them as a person.  If all they do is post ads about their book, you will get bored, right?

The last thing you want to do is spend time doing something that will get you no results.  So, spend time doing something that will get you results.  Learn about hash tags, and how those will get you attention.  Follow popular people and see what kinds of things they tweet about.  Read other tweets and respond to people.  Start up conversations.  It will only take one afternoon to learn "twitter etiquette" but it's definitely worth your time.

Sorry for the soap box.    When someone follows me on Twitter, I go look at their posts.  If all they're doing is posting ads, or retweeting ads, I don't follow them back.  They really just get that one chance.  Now, if I find that they are responding to my posts a lot, and I notice that I'm not following them, I will check them out again, and if they have stopped posting a bunch of ads, I will follow them.

Hope that helps!

Vicki

PS, Please don't private message me and ask me to retweet your posts.  I get that a LOT and it's getting very annoying.  I have followers who liked my book and are interested in my tweets.  I won't just start posting a bunch of book ads and scare them off.  And you should think about that too, if you get a follower that has read your book and liked it, they're not going to want a steady stream of spam coming at them.

Okay, really done now.  

/rant