First of all, I suggest starting to tweet right away. Asking someone to follow a twitter account that has no previous tweets is like asking someone to buy a car without a test drive. Twitter just rolled out a new featured called "Who to follow."
The more college oriented twitter feeds that follow you, the more likelihood you will pop up in a college student's (who is also follow these college twitter feeds) "who to follow" box.
Offer a prize for signing up you enter a contest. Offer cash, offer a better service than the next guy. Get yor name out on twitter and stir up some interest.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.