My secret criteria

So I just started twittering about shops picked using a secret criteria. I'm not trying to be all clandestine or culty, I swear. I just don't want to offend any of the artists purposely excluded. Here I can explain better than in a tweet. Many of us know about the ridiculousness going on with the gift guides at 1000mkts, this is why I started this tweetstravaganza in the first place. And I do really believe the admin there have some sensible reasoning, (whether it works or not), for handling things the way they are. And hopefully if it works we will all benefit in the end. However, this is a very important time of year for the independant artist and many of us trying to sell our wares do this as our only fulltime business, (which makes it even more important!). So what we have are aprox. 2,500 artists at the site, 240ish being featured in the guides, with aprox. 12 being very heavily rotated. So I'm spotlighting artists not in the guides to give them a fair chance too!
Now also know that I truly am happy for the chosen few of the gift guides, and was really sorry to hear that thy're not really seeing any benefit from it. I also fear there may be a backlash towards them because of this, (technically what I'm doing is a backlash towards them), so I didn't want to blather it all over the message boards, or twitter, and I know no one really reads my blog.
If anyone at twitter is really, really curious about my first tweet regarding the secret criteria and happens upon this post, shhh....please keep it secret after all the artists of the gift guides are trying to earn a living too and I just don't want to seem like a jealous bitch. Thanks!

My Twittering Extravaganza!

A Twitteraganza maybe. It started with my dissatisfaction at the lack of variety in certain "gift guides" and has turned into a wild ride of silly searches, serious searches, and just plain looking for something "really" different and unique in the handmade world.
Here is a link to my twitter, follow me down this path of hilarity and nifty stuff.

http://twitter.com/TamaranDesigns