Using Twitter and Klout

To get a grip on "why" the @twittername mention is important in a RT, go sign up (free) for klout.com  --

Or just look at my name there http://klout.com/JLichtenberg  (I made 57 once)

Klout.com is a "service" that rates "reach" (i.e. how important you are on the internet) via twitter responses and it accesses some other social network activity metrics too.

The number klout.com comes up with is used by search engines to suggest you as the answer to various questions, (or at least it was last I looked).  There's a whole lot of reasons why your klout number is the key to selling books.

There are probably other such services out there -- but your Klout number comes up on hootsuite.com window when you click on the @person name on a tweet.

It's all about "who" you are to "the world" -- as writers, we gather followings.  I think most of us have READERS following us, and "readers" as a group tend to be more "influential" in the world -- so if we team up and RT each other, expanding the "klout" "reach" we each have, we can become the answer to search engine questions, and sell books.

Roundabout, but it's not much effort to put an @person in a tweet if you use hootsuite -- it auto-completes the @ if you remember the first couple letters.

Twitter itself is not much use for anything.  To "work it" you need "tools" -- Tweetdeck and Hootsuite seem to be emerging as top favorites of those serious about mastering social networking. (try free versions)

Jacqueline Lichtenberg (freebie enthusiast)
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com

A quote from Twitter

On Twitter, you can use the sort feature to create conversations as if in a chatroom.  You do it by creating a "hashmark" to designate a thread.

The hashmark #scriptchat is for folks talking about screenwriting. 

One of the contributions to the discussion was the following, which relates to the question I asked in the comments on the post previous to this one -- the post which is a story to be analyzed.

@zoocityseries posted the following --
 A rule for #scriptchat: a great hero needs an internal conflict.  Fighting the bad guy is not a conflict.  That's an objective.

And that is exactly the reason I asked the author of the story to define the internal conflict of her lead character, the conflict that is resolved at the end of the piece. 

You can follow @zoocityseries after you join twitter at http://twitter.com/zoocityseries

Or follow me at http://twitter.com/jlichtenberg

Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://www.slantedconcept.com
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com