Tweet Adder - Your Thoughts Please...

Twitter is definitely a viable marketing platform, and building an automated follower base works. We generate thousands of clicks a week using automated technologies in a ton of different niches - not just IM.

The keys to making this work are:

1. Target your follows correctly. You have to make sure you have a message to market match. Getting follows from people who are not interested in what you're offering doesn't do you any good.

2. Post relevant content. It's also important that your followers (or potential followers) see content related to what they're interested in. Using an RSS to Twitter service can help you keep fresh content coming.

3. Don't follow bots. This is a bit more complicated, but following 10,000 bots and having them follow you back doesn't do you any good. I wish there were a better service for the public that filtered out the bots, but there doesn't seem to be.

Here are some tips for finding bots manually and removing them.

1. Look for people who:

* Tweet at predictable time intervals
* Only Retweets
* Only posts with links, with no @ mentions
* Has TONS of tweets
* Has an unreasonably high ratio of followers to tweets

2. Check PeerIndex.net or Klout.com for their "social capital"

I know this part is not automated, but until there is a good bot filter for the public this seems to be the only way to do it.


Once you have a solid follower base, you will get clicks when you post relevant content. (Just make sure you're not doing any of the things mentioned in my bot recognition tips above. ;-)

Hope this helps!

Dustin

that is the seventh time I have heard this.

While I am not a huge twitter fan I do have over 12k followers and see a bit of trafffic from this.

Maybe it is worth a try hmmmm

Hi
I am also using Tweet Adder for 1 week now and I like it.
I want to ask you about the proxy.
I have up to 20 accounts and it's running very, very slow.
How did you fix this problem?
Thank you

For unfollowing, the free service Tweepi is fast and reliable.

For following, I think it's a waste of time and effort using automated systems as the quality of followers they harvest is nowhere near as good the the ones you get manually.

Use automation if you don't mind getting a lot of bots following you, or those who are set up to promote their own interests without pausing to check your messages.

Ivan

I use Tweet Adder and I'm not an affiliate. It's been fine for me but I'm not a strong tweeter. I only go on there now and again if I have something to say. So I haven't really put the software through it's paces fully.

I love TweetAdder and leave it running on my pc continuously. I feed the posts from a lot of my (auto)blogs through it using the 'Tweet This' wordpress plugin, setting autotweet all new posts as the default so there's a constant stream of new tweets.
I was auto following a stack of people each day and unfollow those who didnt follow me back within 4 days. Took my list from ~200 to 8800 in a few months. I had to stop tho when I got a warning from Twitter about automated follows... now only auto-follow-back.
One technique that I used was to google every website that had funny or useful one-line sayings , quotes or things like that and I turned every single one of those into a tweet and set them to roll out continuously. Yes they were recurring tweets but they DID help get thousands of followers. That technique was good for about 100 new followers each day. Once the rate of new followers dropped off significantly I removed that huge list of about 1000 tweets but I still have it saved as a text file for if I ever want to try it again. I had affiliate links interspersed among those tweets but click through rates were pretty low.

So, that's how I used Tweet Adder to build a list of 8800 followers - some legit and some bots. Now I don't run any affiliate links through it. I just tweet my new posts and use the site to send traffic to my blogs.

Personally I don't actually like Twitter but like any other marketing tool, it is there and some people will choose to use it to their advantage and other people will sit there and say that Twitter and TweetAdder don't work, but my list of followers grows naturally now and it is an asset I've created that allows me to get traffic to some of my own websites. I think Tweet Adder cost me about $67? Can't remember but I'd say it was a great investment and alongside Webmagnates Autoblogging software and Article Marketing Robot, one of the best I've bought. There, secret's out LOL. I should be an affiliate.. dang.

Peace, y'all.

Michael Nunn aka Napalmus

Oh yeah, I don't think I'm related to Wayne Nunn unless he has relatives in New Zealand

I don't use automated means of gaining followers on Twitter. Apart from Twitter's dislike of accounts using software for that purpose, automation doesn't offer the sort of control I want to gain the quality of followers that I look for.

As Napalmus mentioned, Twitter is not a very good source of responsive buyers for affiliate marketing. However, it is very good as a research tool and I use it constantly for this. If I want immediate feedback on headlines, beta book reviewers, identifying marketing topics, finding finished product reviewers, and the like, it is excellent.

As the followers are targeted to my particular niche, I can quickly get comments from those who are familiar with the subject matter, increase my personal branding for that niche, and gain traffic for relevant blogs.

I feed a lot of the tweets through link shortening software and this provides statistics which measure the response to certain messages.

I've also developed a liking for Twitter's message limits (140 characters) as that has improved my own writing by forcing me to condense the meaning into one or two readable sentences, without using distracting abbreviations.

With experience, it also becomes easier to find fruitful sources of new followers, even when using manual selection.

I don't have the same urgency to add new followers now that I've reached just on 20,000 targeted followers but, as long as it's easy to do, I'll continue to do it.

As for content, I have a lot of blogs aimed at major keywords for the niche, so there is no shortage of material available from that source. I also have hundreds of pithy statements on the subject that I've written and used before so, if I don't have anything more current to say, I can draw upon my files.

Here is a further example of how Twitter works for branding. A writer in New York liked one of my Twitter posts and used it as the basis of an article which was sent to her followers. She let me know about it and, within an hour, 100+ of my followers read the article, also providing her with traffic (reciprocal benefit). Some of those visitors will also send their followers to it. Here is the article (it loads as a PDF):

http://budurl.com/inspquo

Ivan