Editor's Note: Twitter: I'm Addicted, but With Good Reason
I recently became a follower of Khaled Hosseini, author of “The Kite Runner,” on Twitter. I was shocked to see that he had only 920 followers. Not that 920 is necessarily a small number of followers … but it’s Khaled Hosseini, for heaven’s sake.
I started looking for some of my other favorite authors. I couldn’t find Barbara Kingsolver (“The Poisonwood Bible” is one of my all-time favorites) on Twitter, but she did have a Facebook profile with 3,845 fans (now 3,846). Daniel Wroblewski (author of “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle”) did not seem to be on Twitter, nor did he have a public Facebook page that I could find. The book did have a Facebook page with 284 fans, but it wasn’t very active, and the last “wall post” was Oct. 5, saying that “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” was looking for a new page administrator.