Do you want to share your tweets with your grandchildren someday? Maybe you should make a book.

AppNewser has collected five different services that will turn your Twitter feed into a book. Check it out: 

Twournal: “Twournal allows you to create, buy and sell twitter books printed from your tweets. All Twournals have color covers, can include replies and photos from services such as Twitpic and Yfrog in color or black and white. You can choose a custom picture for your front cover. Select which tweets you want to start and end at. And you can add a dedication message to appear after your title.”

If you have a digital projector or TV at your disposal, you can project a live-streaming wall of tweets at your next book party, author reading or literary event.

Bring your Twitter friends along for the ride at your event with the free Tweetwall app. AppNewser has all the details:

Tweetwall, a company that lets organizations project a live Twitter feed on a wall for clients like CNN, eBay and Microsoft, has launched a new iPad app that will allow anyone to create their own “tweetwall.” The Tweetwall iPad app uses Apple’s Digital AV adapter or AirPlay to allow you to display content from your event on a TV or through a projector.

If you ever need to fix a Twitter mistake, Social Times has uncovered a few tools to publish a highly visible correction. Check it out:

You’ll find a tool for generating strikethrough text on Fsymbols.com. Simply copy and paste the text from your Tweet (or write it in manually) and then copy and paste the crossed out text that appears in a new Twitter post. Note that doing this will double the size of the characters in the post, so you’ll need to limit your Tweets to 70 characters instead of 140. Web developer Adam Varga also has a strikethrough generator tool on his website that produces similar results.

What do you think is the best way to correct a tweet?

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Artist Rossetti Rogers posted a picture of her mother using a Kindle as a print bookmark yesterday, turning a simple photograph into an online literary phenomenon.

As of this writing, her photograph has been retweeted more than 6,500 times.

Below, we’ve collected the viral tweet and some of our favorite responses. Follow this Storify link if you can’t read the collected tweets.

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Over at Social Times, novelist Jackie Collins shared some of her social media strategy, going behind the scenes at her Twitter and Pinterest pages.

Here’s more from the post:

A huge fan of Pinterest, Collins enjoys the fun aspects of social media as well. “If I ever have a spare moment, I go on Pinterest and pin guys… which is so much fun,” she explains. Collins’ favorite is her “Smokin’ Hot” board. “What’s so interesting is you’ll pin Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello, and you’ll see who repins and how many people repin,” she says. Collins has nearly 40 Pinterest boards: dogs, flowers, favorite TV shows, and more. “I have pictures of me back in the day, which is kind of fun, too,” she shares.

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Over the last few days, the ”Fictional Characters I Want to Marry” hashtag has swept Twitter.

According to Twee.co, it became the #1 worldwide trending topic. We’ve embedded a collection of these marriage proposal-themed posts below.

Some of the most popular men from books included Legolas from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Christian Grey from the Fifty Shades trilogy, and Chuck Bass from the Gossip Girl series.

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While hanging out at work, author and Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman introduced his co-worker Travon Free to Twitter’s Vine video sharing service.

The two writers produced a series of funny videos, showing how a little bit of editing goes a long way. We also got a quick tour of the Daily Show offices.

We’ve embedded the complete video story below–what do you think?

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Digital agency Code ComputerLove created a moving web comic using Twitter’s Vine video sharing service.

Click the image above to see the comic in action–what do you think? AppNewser has all the details:

The group has remastered the art of comics into a series Vine digital shorts reminiscent of A-Ha’s famous 80’s music video “Take on Me.” Code ComputerLove’s digital comic is titled “The Last Drop” and comprises of 8 Vines set to play like a serial, animated comic. Each Vine is only 6 seconds long and the Vines start automatically in succession. There’s no sound for now, but future versions could benefit from some sounds or maybe some classic action music.

Does your Twitter or Facebook profile look unbalanced?

The strategic communication company Cerebra has created an infographic outlining the ideal image sizes for photos on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Social Times has more information:

In February 2012, Facebook updated the look of its Timeline for Pages to include cover photos and featured posts, among other changes. Twitter’s December 2011 redesign, “Let’s Fly,” included new backgrounds for profiles. YouTube has changed quite a bit in the last year. The latest channel redesign, which will bring branded banners to all users, was announced a couple weeks ago. But it’s only available to select partners right now and is not reflected in this chart. Check YouTube’s channel art guidelines for updates.

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In three short years, Paul Carrick Brunson has gone from a virtually unknown matchmaker to a best-selling author with his own show on OWN. So, how did he become a “real-life Hitch”? Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the relationship coach tells how in the latest installment of Mediabistro’s  So What Do You Do?

“I’m always really transparent on social media, so I went on Twitter and tweeted to my followers that I was thinking about writing a book,” Brunson said. “And one of the associate publishers at Penguin saw it and said, ‘Hey, if you ever write something, let us know. We’d love to look at it.’ A couple months later, I sent him a direct message on Twitter and told him that I had finished the proposal, and he said that he would love to have me come in. I immediately went to New York — no agent — and sat down and had a meeting with them. Within four hours of the meeting I had a deal, and I signed it the next day.”

Read the full interview in So What Do You Do, Paul Carrick Brunson, Matchmaker and Co-host of OWN’s Lovetown, USA?