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15 years ago

I would like to know how many people you can follow a day without getting banned, or would that get you banned. Also can you send the same direct message to 1000 people to launch a product or would that get you banned also. Seems a lot of sites these days want to ban you for life for the smallest thing.

Can you answer these two basic questions now?

Mike

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Andyhenry

15 years ago

Hi Mike,

Twitter actually tell you about this stuff already.

Here's a link to their advice on follow limits: Twitter Support :: I can't follow people: follow limits

A quick summary of limitations is:

1,000 updates per day
250 direct messages per day
150 API requests per hour
Follow limit

This is also why if you intend to use any Twitter tools - they need to operate within these guidelines. My own tool was built around these from the beginning so it's impossible for me to go outside them by accident. It's the reason I recently offered a WSO for getting people followers safely.

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p.s. I'm not selling my tool, so that wasn't a pitch

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mikeyman120 15 years ago

Thanks so much for the info and the link I guess I should have tried checking twitter.

Mike
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  Originally Posted by mikeyman120
  
  Thanks so much for the info and the link I guess I should have tried checking twitter.
  
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  No worries Mike,
  
  This is one of those classic examples I'm referring to where it's just basic information which Twitter already provides but which people feel there is mystery around. There are people who have an interest in trying to make this stuff sound mysterious (or even not want you to know), and I would normally assume that anyone with a vague interest in Twitter would have just looked this up on Twitter - but I know better now
  
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hamzagee

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

Hi Mike,

Twitter actually tell you about this stuff already.

Here's a link to their advice on follow limits: Twitter Support : I can't follow people : follow limits.
A quick summary of limitations is:

1,000 updates per day
250 direct messages per day
150 API requests per hour
Follow limit

This is also why if you intend to use any Twitter tools - they need to operate within these guidelines. My own tool was built around these from the beginning so it's impossible for me to go outside them by accident. It's the reason I recently offered a WSO for getting people followers safely.

Regards,

Andy
p.s. I'm not selling my tool, so that wasn't a pitch

I hope we can get such informations in future also. thanks a lot.

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Hackbridge

15 years ago

Hi Andy

I would love to know more about creating an income from Twitter. I know that one should brand themselves, so I know in ordery to do that I would need more accounts.

However, it's finding and converting the followers to buyers that i'd like to know?

I don't think that too much information is a bad thing.

Thanks in advance

Brian

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Steven Wagenheim

15 years ago

I don't know, I'm no Twitter expert, but this is what I have found works
very well for me.

1. Look up who the most influential people are in your niche. See if they
have Twitter accounts.

2. Follow just those people. Over time, those who do the "let's follow
everybody who follows so and so" will follow you. I get about 10 new followers
a day.

3. Make 90% of your tweets about sharing information or just letting people
get to know you. Personally, I provide links to my articles so people can
read them. I do this about once or twice a day.

4. The other 10% of my tweets I'll offer some kind of a deal on one of
my products only to my Twitter followers. Make them feel special. I even
put up a Twitter blog that I only offer to them.

5. Give more than you take. Show your followers that you care about
helping them.

As a result of these tactics, my blog readership has exploded. I am
getting 10 to 20 times as many daily viewers as I got before I started
using Twitter.

I do not use any automated software. The only thing I do is autofollow
people who follow me. I don't use the auto DM feature.

That's it. I keep it simple. It doesn't have to be complicated.

It's like with anything else regarding a social site, like a forum. The more
you give, the more you get in return.

Does that about sum it up Andy?

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Andyhenry

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

It's like with anything else regarding a social site, like a forum. The more
you give, the more you get in return.

Does that about sum it up Andy?

I think that one line does.

There are obviously a lot of ways to look at Twitter and a lot of uses for it, so I can understand that people may not be clear about how it can help them achieve certain objectives.

Making money is the classic - you can do it many ways and even on Twitter there are many revenue models.

I personally don't focus any of my activities solely on making money, so I'm not a 'normal' IMer, but I've made money in at least 5 ways using Twitter so I know that it's not as simple as just one strategy fits all. (as usual)

Thanks for the input so far.

I do have one more question now:

Would you prefer a text based product or video?

Andy

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Steven Wagenheim

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

I think that one line does.

There are obviously a lot of ways to look at Twitter and a lot of uses for it, so I can understand that people may not be clear about how it can help them achieve certain objectives.

Making money is the classic - you can do it many ways and even on Twitter there are many revenue models.

I personally don't focus any of my activities solely on making money, so I'm not a 'normal' IMer, but I've made money in at least 5 ways using Twitter so I know that it's not as simple as just one strategy fits all. (as usual)

Thanks for the input so far.

I do have one more question now:

Would you prefer a text based product or video?

Andy

Andy, because of the many people still on dial up who have trouble
downloading videos, my guess is that you're going to get a split on
this answer just for that one reason alone. Some people also simply
don't like having to wade through a whole video and prefer to just be
able to skip to the parts that they need.

Others will really love to see the process visually (personally I think in
some cases, video is almost a must have)

So IMO, you might want to make it text and video.

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thegamecat

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

Hi Mike,

Twitter actually tell you about this stuff already.

Here's a link to their advice on follow limits: Twitter Support :: I can't follow people: follow limits

A quick summary of limitations is:

1,000 updates per day
250 direct messages per day
150 API requests per hour
Follow limit

This is also why if you intend to use any Twitter tools - they need to operate within these guidelines. My own tool was built around these from the beginning so it's impossible for me to go outside them by accident. It's the reason I recently offered a WSO for getting people followers safely.

Regards,

Andy
p.s. I'm not selling my tool, so that wasn't a pitch

Good subject and people sure need the help with Twitter.

The API request limit per hour is actually not that straight forward. You can actually gain API rate for performing tasks which is why its best to use Twitter applications that do everything and try and maintain a healthy balance.

The daily limit to adding follows is now 500 down from 1000.

If you use an application that requires you to hand over your username and password you are crazy. It is not necessary any more and there have been numerous occassions where sites have been using peoples understandable naivity to take over their twitter accounts.

Don't want to help you write your new product too much but that information should be helpful to everyone

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JayXtreme

15 years ago

Hey Andy...

Great idea.. altruistic too..

Personally, I'm not in the need for such advice.. but I think the ideal target demographic for this kind of info, is small business owners who aren't connected/exposed to social media like we (internet marketing folks) are on a daily basis.

Maybe our community has a section of people in this demographic, maybe not.. but I'm sure this poll/thread will get them out if we do.. so great stuff!.

Or I could be completely wrong.. it did happen once, I think.

Peace to ya.. and have a great weekend, dude.

Jay

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JordanFrancis

15 years ago

Hi Andy,

This sounds great. I do have a few questions if I may:

1 - What exactly was Twitter designed to achieve, and has it evolved since?
2 - Are people now using it differently to the above, and if so, for what benefit?
3 - Are people abusing the system? If so, how and to what effect?
4 - Is there an agreed Twitter etiquette I should be aware of?
5 - Regarding Twitter 'tools' - what types are there, what can they do and how crucial can they be to a would-be Twitter marketer?

Thanks for the opportunity to ask

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15 years ago

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Rupps

15 years ago

I voted no, but only because there is soo much info out there on Twitter already. I use Twitter sparingly. I think it works best for those more well known marketers that can get 1000's of followers, yet follow hardly no one back. Think Ed Dale.

Ed thinks Twitter is the best thing since sliced bread, but really better relationships are built on forums like this and on Facebook. One you get fairly known, people like you, etc then twitter I would guess starts to shine. Perry Marshall is the master of this (at least his new product leads you to believe so)

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nick1123

15 years ago

Andy- great market research idea. Anyone who responds to this thread gets a free copy...good incentive for people to tell you what they want. Hadn't thought of doing that.

My questions: How do I use twitter to build my list, build traffic to my blog, and sell my products? Why do some tweets get retweeted and how do we replicate this?

Steve - great ideas!

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TedMarlett

15 years ago

Hi Andy,

My question only has to do with the most effective way to tweet and what should be in there as related to business. I have seen many different people on the site and still don't understand some of the stuff they write about and how they are able to drive traffic their way.

I also think that a video and a pdf would be great. I have used videos in a stop/go fashion to learn what I need to do in the past.

Thanks for bringing this up.

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Andyhenry

15 years ago

Thanks Ted,

Obviously how people use Twitter depends on their business and objectives, but I'll cover it with some examples.

Looks like pdf and video is looking the best option.

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Andy

Originally Posted by TedMarlett

Hi Andy,

My question only has to do with the most effective way to tweet and what should be in there as related to business. I have seen many different people on the site and still don't understand some of the stuff they write about and how they are able to drive traffic their way.

I also think that a video and a pdf would be great. I have used videos in a stop/go fashion to learn what I need to do in the past.

Thanks for bringing this up.

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ramohr

15 years ago

Andy I have hear both good and bad things
about twitter form top dog gurus so I am at at loss
and how to profit from twitter or social marketing period.

I would like to get a copy of your report

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Sara Young

15 years ago

I'd like to know the best way to:
Get my target market to follow me
Use twitter to build my mailing list
Get people to click on the links I tweet

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nick1123

15 years ago

Andy, have you definitely decided to create the product?

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Andyhenry 15 years ago

Originally Posted by nick1123

Andy, have you definitely decided to create the product?

Yes.

There's obviously still a need and I think there's some value in putting across my version of what works as well as all the useful information anyone just wanting to know whether to use Twitter or not needs.

Andy
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Jimnopks

15 years ago

I learn best with video.

I am taking a class tomorrow evening with Maria Gudlis on Twitter.

Maybe after that I will have a question or two.

Jim

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martin2

15 years ago

I use feald.com tools usually to get some extra tweet pals .

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Rich Mann 15 years ago

Hi Andy,

I've got a question. When I follow someone with a large "follows" base, when I try to dig down to the first people they followed, I can never get to the beginning of follow list.

ex: Twitter: What are you doing?TwitterName/following?page=1000

Say this person is following 20000 and you divide that number by 20 (number of default following per page) you'd get 1000 pages. But Twitter will not show you those results. Usually just a blank page showing the number of people being followed.

The reason I'm interested in getting to the first people being followed is that they are usually the closest people to the that person. (Friends and Confidants) and rich sources of knowledge.

Do you know an easy way to get to the first people being followed?

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ChristianM

15 years ago

I've always wondered how best to send twitter followers to a sales page - whether via a blog or direct or some other method because they can dislike being marketed too from what I see.

An action plan would be pretty sweet too.

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phylma

15 years ago

I'm fairly new to Twitter and would have an interest in how to effectively use it.

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ChristineC

15 years ago

I'm interested in how to most effectively use Twitter for local marketing e.g. how to obtain local followers etc.

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GraemeSutherland 15 years ago

Originally Posted by ChristineC

I'm interested in how to most effectively use Twitter for local marketing e.g. how to obtain local followers etc.

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Hi Christine,

I learned about this listening to Perry Belcher...

He likes to use Twitter Search to search for terms such as "Live in Austin" or "Live in NYC"...

You get the idea, I'm sure. If you use localised search terms, you should hopefully come up with conversations between Twitter users who are in your target geographic location.

Even something as simple as location (ie. living in the same city) is a great way to connect online.

Hope this helps...
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GraemeSutherland

15 years ago

Hey Andy,

You're a genius!

I love the approach to polling the Warriors as to what they'd like to see in a Twitter product (or any other subject for that matter).

I like to use Twitter to find out from my followers what they'd like to see in a blog post etc and how I can be of use to them - perhaps you could add that approach to your product to help readers generate ideas for blog / video content?

Nice post

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Don Schenk

15 years ago

Thank you Andy,

I thought I put my comments in this thread a couple days ago, but then just found it sitting in notepad. AAAaarrrrghhhhh. Can I get a new brain?

I signed up a Twitter a couple weeks ago, made a few tweets and next thing I know I have dozens of request from people or robots wanting to follow me or have me follow them or I have no idea what they want.

I have no idea what I am doing either, but that has never stopped me in the past.

I listened to the webinar/sales-pitch by Perry Belcher the other night and can't figure how to "qualify" those who would follow me. Perry is in the IM niche, and maybe anyone on twitter might be interested in buying from that niche.

I'm in another niche (one in which I perceive few people use twitter) and my question is does it really do any good to build a large following that may not have any interest in your niche? How would you sell to them/ Is there a way to attract people from a particular niche?

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Andy

15 years ago

Hi Andy,

Might learn a lot from this post alone!

It's getting late for me so I barely skimmed this - forgive me if the question was asked and answered (ignore it too) but I'm wondering how best to use twitter to promote articles particularly if I'm writing under a pen name.

God bless,

Sam Clemens

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AndyL 15 years ago

Hi Andy,

Great idea to create a product around all these questions.

My question is very simple.

Whats the top ten niches to market to, within twitter ?

Cheers
Andy
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MReco

15 years ago

I think most people are at least intrigued by Twitter, whether or not they actually want to take the time to learn it right or not is a whole other thing! My vote is yes, take the time and learn it right.

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David Walker 15 years ago

Hi Andy,

I am really into Twitter at the moment and have built up a large following in a relatively short space of time.

However, I know I am not utilising the account to its full potential and I'd love my followers to be more interactive with me and responsive to the tweets I put out there.

So, what I'd like to know is what is the best way to attract really targeted followers who are interested in what I have to say and then persuade them to interact with me on the platform.

I noticed you followed me the other day and I followed you back, so I must be doing something right!

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  I have a lot of restaurant accounts and I'm wondering if I can use Twitter to bring in Diners to these restaurants, maybe by providing a "Daily Special" Tweet or maybe a "Special Discount" Tweet when they come in.
  
  Has anyone heard of using Twitter to help restaurants get more business?
  
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Jimnopks

15 years ago

I think tweeting the daily specials is a great idea.

Anyone doing this yet?

I have a small group of followers, but do not tweet very often.

Maybe this thread will help me learn enough to begin.

Jim

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nick1123

15 years ago

Another question: How do I use twitter to do market research?

Andy, when will the product be ready?

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RexX 15 years ago

Hi Andy,

I want to know how to add followers quickly and easily without risking getting my account banned.

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