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Twitter Followers. How Many Of Them I Need?

by adpablo
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Hello, I've been learning about this very interesting platform Twitter and it looks just great as a tool to take your message to the crowds (commercial or not). But I was just wondering how many followers should be the least amount I should aim to have so I can start to see results promoting some products to this followers? :rolleyes:
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Gosse
    Hard question. Quality of followers matters. 100k followers would be awesome but not if they never use twitter. I would rather have a few hundred realtors and other potential clients than 100k useless slobs
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    • Profile picture of the author James Lawrence
      9 out of 10 people would probably say, ALL I CAN GET. Quality is what you should want for the long haul of building relationships. You will succeed!
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    Originally Posted by adpablo View Post

    Hello, I've been learning about this very interesting platform Twitter and it looks just great as a tool to take your message to the crowds (commercial or not). But I was just wondering how many followers should be the least amount I should aim to have so I can start to see results promoting some products to this followers? :rolleyes:
    I don't think it is based on quantity but quality. What I am saying will be that you may have thousands but how many are actually reading your product offers. With huge amount of followers, people can hardly see your offers since they will also have a huge amount of followers themselves.

    For me, I will click on the person and read their offers once awhile. If your followers are having little followers then chance of seeing your promotion will be great. Or if they are doing like me, then you will be getting more viewers for your product promotion.
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  • Profile picture of the author nick1123
    Quality all the way. It's about the relationship you have with them. If your followers love your stuff they will retweet your stuff and market for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author gb4biz
    Adpablo,

    I don't think you can put a number on this one since you probably have a real mix of followers. I would try to continue building a more targeted following and since I don't know much about Forex other than seeing a ton of marketers promoting it, the larger your following, the better your chances of converting some of your promos.

    As with the Forum, Twitter has a real blend of newbies and a wealth of top Professionals in it's membership, so you best be on your A game trying to sell there!

    Hope this helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author Loco.m
    Quality gets my vote as well
    I was able to make a sale with only 200 followers
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    • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
      you need as many followers that will pay attention to you.

      It is useless to have 10,000 followers that never get on twitter or never reply back.

      But, if you have 1000 followers that are captivated by your tweets and wait for your tweets... well, that is a totally different story.

      So, I guess my answer would be you need as many followers that will listen to you. Whether that be 10 or 10,000
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      • Profile picture of the author Nathan Hangen
        I will agree with most...you need to build relationships with people if you want to sell to them...unless you are a celebrity type and people are dying to see what you have to say. Another factor you might consider is the niche, as some niches are much easier to sell to than others. You also want to consider what you will do after you've got the sale.
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    good relation with the followers will make the difference
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  • Profile picture of the author MIB Mastermind
    I would much rather have 200 loyal followers than 5000 I just followed for the sake of following them. Quality over quantity any day.
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    • Profile picture of the author Anthony J Namata
      Hi there!

      I think, if you despise SPAM, then don't use Twitter solely for advertising...coz your tweets will be treated as such AND ignored. Nothing gained there then is there?

      Put in some content, rave rant and throw tea cups if you want, and the occasional link to a product you want to sell.

      Hope that helps,

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  • Profile picture of the author thesuccesscoach
    very good answers and i think the one thing that stands out is you have to give quality information. the original poster talked right away about promotingstuff - this is the wrong way to look at twitter. Twitter is a social communication tool and as such is about communication and not about commercilism.. Build up followers give good information than offer reviews of products.

    For example nicheprof (Ron Caps) is just an amazing powerhouse of information about social marketing. I know if there's something i need i'll find it from him.

    So what has he done? he's created a "brand" the go to guy for social marketing. This is what you need to do. When you then recommend something people will listen and trust.

    Actually that's the key:
    good infomation + trust = success

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  • Profile picture of the author Hililuud
    go for all you can get, both high quality and not so high. usually the less qualified will delete if not interested and if not then they have found a new hobby. So how do you get a higher quality following, use twellow.com

    also add me on twitter.com/younggates88
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  • Profile picture of the author adpablo
    Hello everyone, thank you for such great answers....a good deal of good information in them without doubt....)
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  • Profile picture of the author Sleaklight
    Targeted followers is what you need. It's quite easy to get hundreds/thousands of targeted followers using the right methods to get them.
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  • Profile picture of the author adpablo
    Well so far I have 134 followers in Twitter and I've been trying to get most of them as targeted as possible....
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    • Profile picture of the author JamesFrancisIM
      Stop with the targeted stuff, gah.

      Yes, it's important, but don't be spending every minute of your waking day nitpicking your followers.

      The best and fastest way to achieve this is as follows:

      1) Go to someone's twitter profile who is in the same niche and has a similar personality type and writing style (if possible) as you.
      2) Click on the link which shows the amount of people who are following him/her
      3) Click "follow, follow, follow" all the way down, 10 pages a day or so. NO MORE.

      This way, you get quantity AND targeted followers.

      If you're interested, I'm doing a free online seminar this Wednesday which will explain this whole process of being awesome at Twitter in much more detail. Link is in my sig (below).

      Hope i've helped

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      • Profile picture of the author mediamogul
        Originally Posted by JamesFrancisIM View Post

        Stop with the targeted stuff, gah.

        Yes, it's important, but don't be spending every minute of your waking day nitpicking your followers.

        The best and fastest way to achieve this is as follows:

        1) Go to someone's twitter profile who is in the same niche and has a similar personality type and writing style (if possible) as you.
        2) Click on the link which shows the amount of people who are following him/her
        3) Click "follow, follow, follow" all the way down, 10 pages a day or so. NO MORE.

        This way, you get quantity AND targeted followers.

        If you're interested, I'm doing a free online seminar this Wednesday which will explain this whole process of being awesome at Twitter in much more detail. Link is in my sig (below).

        Hope i've helped

        - James.
        Good stuff here. This is what I did and got my followers to 1200+ in a week.
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        • Profile picture of the author JamesFrancisIM
          Originally Posted by mediamogul View Post

          Good stuff here. This is what I did and got my followers to 1200+ in a week.
          Be careful though, "aggressive following" is against Twitter's spam rules.

          8-10 pages a day (around 160-200 people) is about the maximum i'd go to.

          - James.
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          • Profile picture of the author adpablo
            Originally Posted by JamesFrancisIM View Post

            Be careful though, "aggressive following" is against Twitter's spam rules.

            8-10 pages a day (around 160-200 people) is about the maximum i'd go to.

            - James.

            I think you are right on this... I'm being conservative in my "friend adding task" (no more than 150 a day) and so far I'm on 300 friends...hope I can be near 1000 by this weekend....:rolleyes:
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          • Profile picture of the author Wayne A
            Originally Posted by JamesFrancisIM View Post

            Be careful though, "aggressive following" is against Twitter's spam rules.

            8-10 pages a day (around 160-200 people) is about the maximum i'd go to.

            - James.
            200 followers sounds aggressive to me. Does Twitter have an actual number they consider "aggresive"?

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              • Profile picture of the author affcorner
                Originally Posted by Marketing Donut View Post

                You are only allowed to follow up to 2001 followers until you have over 2000 following you back to stop 'aggressive following'.
                People who say this dont have over 2,000 users.

                You get a 10% bump as you get close. at 1800 you get like 2010, etc etc.
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            • Profile picture of the author JamesFrancisIM
              Originally Posted by Wayne A View Post

              200 followers sounds aggressive to me. Does Twitter have an actual number they consider "aggresive"?

              Wayne
              Nope, I e-mailed their support and didn't get a reply for this.

              However, i've got over 4,000 followers using this method and haven't had anything negative back yet.

              Remember to spread out the following throughout the day though, i.e. 25 in the morning, 25 a few hours later, 50 in the afternoon, and 100 at night.

              Basically you need to make your following patterns seem human.


              - James.
              P.S. Don't forget to take 'off days' where you don't follow anyone at all.
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              • Profile picture of the author Technologize
                I didn't read the above replies, so apologies in advance if i'm repeating someone else, however.

                My advice - don't use auto following software. All that does it follow back people you don't know who are adding you to get more followers. You're simply joining in the popularity content & creating noise on the network.

                Follow people you admire, trust, know or recommend.

                I've developed a few simple rules for myself and twitter which keeps it clean and easy:

                1. I got heaps of followers and then realised i couldn't keep up with them all. So I deleted everyone but who i knew.

                2. Anyone who DM's me SPAM get's instantly unfollowed.

                3. Anyone who's posts consist mostly of sales / affiliate links, gets unfollowed.



                Twitter is about relationships. you could make more money of 10 followers who know and trust you and your advice, then 10,000 followers who don't' know you from a bar of soap.
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                • Profile picture of the author JamesFrancisIM
                  Originally Posted by anteck View Post

                  I didn't read the above replies, so apologies in advance if i'm repeating someone else, however.

                  My advice - don't use auto following software. All that does it follow back people you don't know who are adding you to get more followers. You're simply joining in the popularity content & creating noise on the network.

                  Follow people you admire, trust, know or recommend.

                  I've developed a few simple rules for myself and twitter which keeps it clean and easy:

                  1. I got heaps of followers and then realised i couldn't keep up with them all. So I deleted everyone but who i knew.

                  2. Anyone who DM's me SPAM get's instantly unfollowed.

                  3. Anyone who's posts consist mostly of sales / affiliate links, gets unfollowed.



                  Twitter is about relationships. you could make more money of 10 followers who know and trust you and your advice, then 10,000 followers who don't' know you from a bar of soap.

                  And this is why people fail at Twitter.

                  I agree with point three, but the rest of your post is totally incorrect.

                  If you want to have personal relationships with people, make a personal account. But if you want to use Twitter for business and marketing, you need as many numbers as possible.

                  Twitter is a numbers game, like it or not. When people see you have a great deal of followers, they see you as an authority figure which helps them trust you (amongst many other things which I couldn't fit into one post).

                  You say...

                  "Twitter is about relationships. you could make more money of 10 followers who know and trust you and your advice, then 10,000 followers who don't' know you from a bar of soap."
                  This is also not true. Why? Because even if you have 10,000 followers, it doesn't mean the people following you will have 10,000 followers too. In addition, Twitter is all about building trust. This trust doesn't come from nowhere - you have to BUILD IT from the ground up.

                  So much misinformation about Twitter nowadays it's unreal...

                  - James.
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  • Profile picture of the author LordXenu
    as with anything marketing related, numbers do not always promise sales. i'd rather have a profile with 100 highly targeted and active followers than 2000 randoms i added out of nowhere.
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    • Profile picture of the author JamesFrancisIM
      Originally Posted by LordXenu View Post

      as with anything marketing related, numbers do not always promise sales. i'd rather have a profile with 100 highly targeted and active followers than 2000 randoms i added out of nowhere.
      But those you added out of nowhere start to trust you after a while, and therefore become targeted.

      Anyway, even if they're targeted to begin with, it doesn't mean to say they'll be interested in what you do.

      Twitter is all about building trust, and is a long-term thing.

      - James.
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  • Profile picture of the author thegamecat
    300 a day is the maximum I use - the same proven method of getting followers on Twitter has been brought up about 20 times in the last 4 weeks.

    Here's the bottom line:
    Getting followers by following big numbers (max 300imo) every day works.
    How you chose to pick these 300 is up to you, personally I target them in my own way, but several methods work.
    Doing this on autopilot is the ONLY way I would chose to do it because it's a pain in the arse, especially if you run multiple twitter accounts in different market spaces.
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      Hey new guy here.

      I cant post links but look up casinojack on twitterholic

      I am getting new affiliates every day and getting adds like crazy. I Might be aggressive, and I do engage users. Let me tel you the real trick.

      Time is money

      Do this and it will work for you. especially the wee hours of the night

      1. click on profile of someone who tweeted you.
      2. If they have over 2,000 followers follow top 5 - 10 ONLY, not page after page
      3. Now follow one of those top 10 followers and continue
      3. repeat

      These people most likely online will follow you faster

      I am amazed people who spend time looking up keywords to find profiles similar to them, and the follow ALL of their followers. Like they are all in the same niche? You know how he did it?

      My method is working look at my stats daily. Anyone else who has a system lets see it in action. I think many work but i really think the key is to finding people online at that time. Hope my first post here is helpfull, and GL2UA
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    there was a good FREE WSO on twitter, it got me going and i have 3000+ followers for one account now.
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    There is a DEFINITE gravitational pull once you get to a decent size. Law of attraction of sorts I guess heh.
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  • Profile picture of the author Devon Brown
    I know someone who has over 50k followers and can barely keep up with all of them. That's nice, but I like my limited amount of followers (and I follow everyone) because then I can stay conversational, post interesting bits, and usually get feedback from it.
    I don't want to be a part of noise. I want to be a contributing member.
    So to me, numbers don't matter. It's quality.
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      There's a few bots out there you can purchase to add people quickly, but you still have to build a relationship with them. the bot is good if you need to leverage a little time in your favor.
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    The more you have the better and I'm not only talking about twitter. I'm talking about every social network there is!

    More followers = More traffic = More Money
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  • Profile picture of the author adpablo
    Well, I have just passed the 500 followers mark but things seem to be slowing down (?)....I'm following 722 people but somehow they are not following back...I think I should wait a few more days and if they don't follow I'll start unfollowing them....
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    Twitter is mental at the moment, there is a guy out there teaching how to get 19 thousand followers in something like 90days, what he does then is hit em with something and can drive traffic towards his or someones site, its for a traffic campaign more than anything else from what i can gather, but been on twitter is only something part time for me at the mo.. anyone seen this guys videos about the twitter traffic?
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    • Profile picture of the author JamesFrancisIM
      Originally Posted by st0rm View Post

      Twitter is mental at the moment, there is a guy out there teaching how to get 19 thousand followers in something like 90days, what he does then is hit em with something and can drive traffic towards his or someones site, its for a traffic campaign more than anything else from what i can gather, but been on twitter is only something part time for me at the mo.. anyone seen this guys videos about the twitter traffic?
      Thanks for the affiliate link :p

      That 90,000 followers in 90 days is complete BS generated to get people to buy. How many people do you see with 90,000 followers? Very few.

      It must work :rolleyes:

      - James.
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    You only need enough of the "right ones." ;-)

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  • Profile picture of the author DanielFonda
    I'm voting for quality. But having 10k or 100k doesn't sound bad either. I usually start promoting a website right away (on twitter). Even if I have only 100 followers. You never know.
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    • Profile picture of the author JamesFrancisIM
      Originally Posted by DanielFonda View Post

      I'm voting for quality. But having 10k or 100k doesn't sound bad either. I usually start promoting a website right away (on twitter). Even if I have only 100 followers. You never know.
      lol!

      Doing this straight away annihilates your chances of your followers ever buying from you.

      What do spammers do? Send a link without an introduction. This is what you're doing.

      What do you think all the other thousands of Twitter marketers are doing? Just this. And failing incredibly because of it.

      Be different, stand out, show yourself to be a person, and make people trust you. That's the key.

      - James.
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      • Profile picture of the author DanielFonda
        Originally Posted by JamesFrancisIM View Post

        lol!

        Doing this straight away annihilates your chances of your followers ever buying from you.

        What do spammers do? Send a link without an introduction. This is what you're doing.

        What do you think all the other thousands of Twitter marketers are doing? Just this. And failing incredibly because of it.

        Be different, stand out, show yourself to be a person, and make people trust you. That's the key.

        - James.
        Sure. I totally agree. But the point is not to spam. The point is to create credibility from the very beginning. Do you think by getting something like 1000000 of followers and tweeting your site url that that isn't spamming. Sure it is. It is important to write tweets like I've just finished updating my blog at www.yoursite.com
        And always remember to give something to your audience for free or to help them. This will build credibility which is the most important piece of the puzzle.

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        • Profile picture of the author JamesFrancisIM
          Originally Posted by DanielFonda View Post

          Sure. I totally agree. But the point is not to spam. The point is to create credibility from the very beginning. Do you think by getting something like 1000000 of followers and tweeting your site url that that isn't spamming. Sure it is. It is important to write tweets like I've just finished updating my blog at www.yoursite.com
          And always remember to give something to your audience for free or to help them. This will build credibility which is the most important piece of the puzzle.

          Daniel
          Of course, that's what all of my above posts state, and my 2 hour Twitter seminar stated :rolleyes:

          My Twitter stream is constant content and value, and yours should be too. I've always stuck by the following ratio for tweeting:

          11:6:3 (out of 20)

          11 = Straight out content + advice without links
          6 = links to helpful articles, blogs, free stuff, etc
          3 = promotion, i.e. affiliate stuff, sales pages or special offers, etc

          And it works so far. I'm at just over 4,300 followers now and with most tweets I do, at least one person RT's it. That's the result of a trusting relationship.

          Obviously I'm always striving to get to know as many followers as possible while providing them content, resulting in more trusting relationships. That's what Twitter is about. But the higher your following count, the more people see your valuable tweets with awesome content and therefore the higher the chance of more people trusting you.

          As I said, it's a long term process though.

          - James.
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    Doesn't matter how many followers you have if you haven't setup your profile or background. The idea is to drive traffic to your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author aspiepower
    I doubled my twitter followers in 4 hours yesterday by doing one thing that took me 10 minutes

    Hey ... I should write that in an ebook

    .... and sell it to all my followers ... and you lot, because now you want some of that ....


    Oh, did I mention my followers went from 3 to 7 yesterday because I wrote a hubpage and mentioned it?

    Damn, secret's out of the bag now

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  • Profile picture of the author adpablo
    Well, posts here keep getting interesting ...I agree that building confidence with your followers is key before being able to sell something to them......by the way today I just passed the 800 followers mark......
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    • Profile picture of the author Jason James
      Originally Posted by adpablo View Post

      Well, posts here keep getting interesting ...I agree that building confidence with your followers is key before being able to sell something to them......by the way today I just passed the 800 followers mark......

      Congrats on the 800 followers... I agree with your post. I think 95% of peoples updates should be personal updates and interesting links to articles etc. and maybe 5% of the time a link (yours or an affiliate) to a product or service. If this balance gets out of whack people will most likely unfollow you or ignore your Tweets.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ashley Wright
    Fully agree with Jason on that, you don't want to spam twitter so much with 60+% of your own links 24/7 people will not be intrested, keep it personal and throw a few odd links here and there and your on your way!
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  • Profile picture of the author mix_daylee
    You need as many Twitter Followers as you need MySpace Friends. Oh wait, all these are the same people who used to be on MySpace. I guess they're now on Twitter.
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    • Profile picture of the author John Hocking
      Don't get hung up on how many followers you have.

      Twitter is about building relationships and exchanging information.

      My advice would be.

      Find a topic you want to tweet about and search for it using
      Twitter Search.

      Look at the people that are talking about your topic and choose which people to follow based on their tweets. Also look for people that retweet a lot. They could help you spread you message.

      The advantage of picking followers this way is you will have a topic in common and they are more likely to follow you back and stay.

      If you are not already using it, I recommend getting TweetDeck: a simple and fast way to experience Twitter to help you manage the people you follow and keep track of searchs.

      You can set up groups of people you really want to watch so their tweets don't get lost in the flood of posts. You can also filter the feeds in real time to look for links or questions. Tweetdeck will make this all very easy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Terri LC
    I completely agree that you need quality followers. That is why Mike Dillard decided to "unfollow" myself (& 9,000+ others) through a friendly email saying don't be offended, but I'm not truly following you.

    Sure enough, the next day he went from 10,000 to just under 1,000.

    And of course, curiosity had me looking at the "quality" tweeter he was following!
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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    I have over 40,000 followers that i have created since christmas and they are a huge amount of them that are regular contributors the only problem is that there are that many of them it is hard to keep up.

    But if you want to build up a good following i would say to create a good income stream from twitter you should look at having 1000-2000 followers and this can very easily be achieved in a month for very little effort.

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