I'm trying to update my skills and get into the Social Media whirl. Can't harm with marketing.
Anybody found any compulsive reading hashtags on twitter that lead them to loads of interesting follows?
Most of the ones I look at seem to have hordes of people telling me:

they have just made a nice cup of latte, done the ironing or washed up.
are planning baked beans on toast for lunch (I lie, it's not usually that interesting),
are currently listening to Fleetwood Mac (I lie, usually a group I've never heard of) on their iPod as they hammer the keyboard,
have just written 432 words before they dash off to work,
have changed the name of the lead character in their WIP to Tamsin (I lie, it's not usually that exotic, usually Alex or Malcolm),
have just passed the 30,000 word count and only have 50,835 to go,
have realised writing a synopsis is not a bundle of laughs,
and ditto a query letter.

None of the above holds the slightest interest for me. Perhaps I'm not excited enough by the details of routine daily life in the home.

Finally when I do think someone's made an amusing/interesting/novel comment and go to their website, it turns out they write edgy, steam punk, vampire- and dragon-filled, urban fantasy aimed at three-year-olds that no cell in my body can relate to.

Anybody discovered some real gems?
AG. AG Home Page

I think the trick is to follow someone you know and/or admire and see who's following them. Otherwise you'll go mad trying to sort out the interesting from the banal. I followed a tweet by Stephen Fry which led to this astonishing work:

http://www.annemarie-wright.com

It's not an original idea, but it's particularly well done. the long and the short of it

I opened up my email the other day to find I was being followed by Jesus Christ on twitter. lines from the word lab

I think that's the answer. Although most of my idols are on the Otherworld-wide-web.
By the way I like some of your Twaikus.
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Thank you. That's a good name for them. the long and the short of it