nonfiction social media interaction

The twitter stream I found was for Creative Nonfiction, the quarterly magazine edited by Lee Gutkind. The interaction on the twitter doesn't go much beyond just RT-ing tweets at them that are relevant or where they are hashtagged. I think their retweeting of every tweet in which #cnftweet is way too much and tweets like that tend to clutter my time line and generally annoy me, sometimes enough to unfollow. I think it's important to interact with readers but only to a certain extent.

As for a nonfiction writer's twitter, I chose Maureen Dowd but because it's one of those twitters that makes you ask, 'what's the point?'. Every tweet is merely a link to her latest op-ed piece. For someone who's incredibly opinionated, it seems strange and almost uncharacteristic of her to refrain from voicing anything on twitter. So in her case, maybe it was a 'my publisher made me do it' type of thing but I don't know if I think it's the best idea for her if she wants to interact with her public.