welcome to bookd

Welcome to bookd, a social media experiment.

bookd uses Group Tweet, and here's how it works:

You follow bookd on Twitter, and bookd will follow you back.

If all you want to do is read book recommendations, you're done. Any review that appears on bookd will appear in your twitter stream, because you're following bookd. The cool(?) thing is that what you'll be reading are recommendations from a whole bunch of people, not just me.

Want to recommend something? It's easy. Write a recommendation for a book using 140 characters or fewer, and send it as a direct message to bookd. Include a link if you want, but doing so will cut into the number of characters you can use to write your recommendation.

Your review will appear at twitter.com/bookd in this form:

via @yourtwitterhandle: your review

So, for example:

via @beezy: Serena is brutal, apocalytic and gripping. Flannery O'Connor plus James Dickey equals Ron Rash

First known issue:

You don't have a full 140 characters for your recommendation. "via @bdr" (for example) is automatically inserted before your tweet. This is good -- it identifies a tweet as yours, and other readers can jump out to your twitter feed -- but it *does* take eat up some characters. So aiming for 130 characters is probably a good idea.