In a previous article I wrote about being the Curator of your Twitter newspaper. But that's, you know, after the newspaper is created, using paper.li. You should also know how to create one, if being a curator is on your mind. Creating a newspaper is really easy!

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Last year, paper.li was noticed by Twitter users, and became a big hit! You probably know paper.li allows you to create a "newspaper" based on the content of tweets. They're by no means the only such service, but I'm only one man and, well, I wanted to make content digests and had to choose just one service.

The contributions don't even have to come just from people who follow you, or people you've been following. I'd be shocked if most people who create a paper use as their primary source of contributors anything other than a Twitter List – with tweets from appropriate hashtags as well. That's what I use. I have four papers:

• The #Akron Daily
• The 24-Hour Bully Stake-Out Times
• #GEEK and Proud!
• The Indie #ProWrestling Herald (comes out only on Fridays)

I have conducted a couple of interviews on Twitter in the past, but the information in those has already been reprocessed into article form, so I am writing here about a proposal I made to interview the Downtown Akron Partnership on Twitter about First Night Akron 2012. And to say a few words about what others are doing. I argue that interviewing via Twitter is easy, and reclaiming the tweets for other purposes (e.g. Web site) is also easy, thus giving the interview info two or three times the exposure it would get if you, say, conducted your interview over the phone.

Jay Asher (@jayasherguy) and Carolyn Mackler (@carolynmackler), co-authors of The Future of Us, conducted a joint interview on Twitter a week ago, and you can see what they had to say via hashtag #futureofus. (Asher is also known as the author of Thirteen Reasons Why.) In their case, not many tweets were posted. My guess is that most of their (young adult) audience didn't use the hashtag.

A brief explanation. These are the top 30 Twitterers in Akron, OH as of this writing, #1 to 30 left to right, with their follower counts. The curve given by that equation there is an excellent fit for all but four or five of them, and the three points farthest from the curve have very small tweet counts, relative to their follower counts.