An insanely powerful Twitter Friend-adding technique

I recently stumbled over an incredibly powerful way of increasing my Twitter following. In the past, when adding 100 new friends, within about a week, about 15-25 of them would end up following me.

When using this technique, I add 100 friends and literally get 80% of them to follow me back - overnight! The best part is that it's free.

Case in point: Last night, around 11pm, I added around 100 new Twitter friends. I do this manually, by searching for targeted friends and then adding them. This is what my e-mail looked like this morning:



When I uploaded this, the number was in the high 70's. By now, I have 86 new followers. Meaning that out of 100 adds, 86% are now following me - within less than 16 hours! And that's just so far (they just keep coming in).

So what did I do? The secret is so simple, you'll laugh when you hear it. Here it is: Before I added any new friends, I composed and posted a really cool, interesting tweet. It was simply an inspirational quote that happened to be funny at the same time. That's it!

Here's why it works: When you add someone, they receive an e-mail saying "soandso is now following you on Twitter". The first thing they do is open their mail and click on your profile. When they do that, what's the most visible thing on your page?

That's right - your latest tweet, in huge font! If that tweet gets their attention (in a good way), chances are extremely high that they'll follow you.

Why? Because it's interesting! Most people tweet about daily, mundane things like "watching a movie", "doing homework", etc, so when given the chance to follow someone who have genuinely interesting things to say, you better believe they'll follow you!

There are only 4 rules to making this work:
1. Only add targeted people - otherwise this won't work.
2. Make sure your latest tweet is REALLY interesting or funny/weird/cool/ attention-getting.
3. Make sure you post your tweet BEFORE adding people.
4. Keep that tweet for a day before adding a new one (unless you add another, equally attention-getting tweet)

There ya go - now go get those followers!