Whether I 'Really' Qualify as a ''Writer'' (in Twitter's ''Writing Community'') or Not, the Best I Can Do is FIX THINGS

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I mean, I WRITE. But many of the writers in the Writing Community 'write for television,' have manuscripts published, books in print, queries to submit to publishers, works-in-progress. The closest to 'something published' that I have (beside a scattering of 'amateur' (well, kinda professional; if you consider 'shared revenue' the same as "getting paid to write") blogs, these posts on myLot, and comments on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace (if you can dig up anything I might've written there)) is 'some letters I wrote to the Oklahoma Gazette.' But I DO notice a couple things used by the Twitter Writing-Community that could use a little tuning up---or maybe I just need to understand them better. Specifically, their #WritersLift & what they call the Pin-for-Pin. With the 'Pin-for-Pin,' the idea is that 'one of the writers tweets "Pin-for-Pin" (often using the "Pin"-logo instead of the word, and sometimes "4" instead of 'for'); you see that, go to theiir profile, "retweet" their "pinned" tweet (the tweet they told Twitter to keep at the top of their Tweet-list), and comment on the request to say that you've retweeted their pin; and they go to your profile & retweet YOUR pin." (Most Twitter-Writers 'pin' a link to their Amazon-page or their latest book or article, but lately most of the pin-for-pin's I've seen have been for craft-sales or 'teachers begging for school-supplies.) I 'fix' the pin-for-pin's by copying the original request & then "QUOTE tweet"-ing the requester's pin, where I paste the original request above it! (see the picture) The #WritersLift (I've mentioned it before): A writer will announce that they're 'doing a #WritersLift' and encourage fellow writers to 'share their links' there, and say that they'll then retweet any links that look interesting. I 'fix' this by 'quote tweeting' the #WritersLift announcement and posting my link (usually to my crypto-mining network) in THAT Tweet, before *I* go down the list in that announcement's comments and quote-tweet any comments that *I* think look interesting (tagging each of the QTs with #WritersLiftDoneRIGHT or some-such ).