That feels comfy, like a nice party or a warm crowd at a bar. I don't push for followers, mainly because I have discovered Twitter spam. Not my cup o' tea.
One thing I did that affects This Writing Thing is, I bought a year's worth of Twitter promotion with a marketing business called BookBuzz. You fill out a form giving a short logline for your book, submit your cover graphic, and boom (or, Tweet!) you're in rotation for mass Twitter appearances, with a link to your book's sales page, wherever that is.
So I hope some people have elected to visit Open Books Press, to check out YU, or to my site, to read the free chapters.
But the thing I have to tell you - OMG YouGuys! - I found #WernerHerzog's Twitter handle@WernerTwertzog, and Followed, because his Tweets are darkly hilarious haikus about life.
"I can no longer
Distinguish between The goatees of NASCAR enthusiasts, Leninists, Nashvillians, Mitch-MIllerites, And Brad Pitt."
I favorited and re-tweeted, and replied to that one, comparing Duck Dynasty to Rasputin.
Whoever @WernerTwertzog is, he Favorited, and Followed!
I squee'd a squee to remove the paint from my walls.
For 24 hours I was terrified to re-Tweet anything, because WERNER HERZOG WOULD SEE IT!
Then I got a grip, again.
And now, 7 days later, he's un-Followed me ... but he did Favorite something else I replied to one of his haikus.
I figure he does a weekly purge of who he Follows, just to stay fresh.
Man, for a while there I was looking over my shoulder when I left the house - knowing Werne Herzog was following me.
PS -- any movie Werner Herzog makes, go see it.
