I am having the hardest time just getting a widget for my sidebar. And, wtf is tweet deck? Twitterator? Twhirl? I’m all TWHAT????

Lots of great info here, Lisa and I are going to dominate Twitter much sooner than we thought! haha.

I agree with the above recommendation for TweetDeck, as you get more followers, it will keep you sane.

Second, sign up with Mr. Tweet. I think he’s @MrTweet but if you do a Twitter search you’re sure to find him. He recommends people based on your network that you might enjoy following. Then, look at who THEY’RE following.

Word of caution, follow only a few at a time, until they follow back. Your Twitter ranking, should you care about such things, is better when you have an even number of followers and followed, unless your MCHammer or something.

There’s also something called #followfriday. (Do you know about the # (hashtag) phenomenon. It’s basically a search paramater embedded in your Tweet. Like, if you tweet about American Idol and then include #AI you’ll show up in the thread of people following American Idol tweets. Anyhoo, #followfriday is where people suggest other people that you might like to follow. Each Friday, I pick someone from the book world and type somehting like “If you want great book reviews, check at @reviewromance #followfriday.” You hope (though I’m still waiting) that someone tweets the followfriday crowd to follow you, but some do anyway.