In the Writers-Community on Twitter, Why Doesn't the #WritersLift Seem to Accomplish Its Goal? Is it My Fault, for Not Doing It Right?

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I like to consider myself 'part of the Writers-Community on Twitter' (mostly because I follow "#WritersCommunity" on there). I've been 'a member' so long that--every time I refresh my 'Twitter feed' (the Twitter-homepage that shows the latest tweets of all the tweeps you're following)--I see 4-or-5 of my fellow writers saying they're 'doing a #WritersLift.' The #WritersLift-idea is 'you answer their #WritersLift-tweet with a comment containing a link to your blog/bookseller/article/work-in-progress, and the "Lifter" clicks your link & retweets your comment to their followers (who all click your link & maybe retweet it to THEIR followers, etc.-etc.).' And so I've regularly been answering each of those with 'a link to my etymology/celebrity-birthday/Youtube-news blog.' But I don't see their retweets of any other #WritersLift-commenter (granted, I don't SCROLL-DOWN to see all 25-or-so new tweets that come up on my Twitter-feed ... heck! I don't even open the #WritersLift-tweet before I comment on it!) So that's what I've got to do to make #WritersLifts work: 1) Scroll-Down & visit all the #WritersLift-comments' retweets' links (sharing the ones that I think are worth sharing), starting with 2) all the comments to that #WritersLift that commented before you (visible when you open the #WritersLift-tweet). Any other tips?