4 Steps - Hundreds of Twitter Followers in Hours

Sounds good Todd...as a complete newbie on Twitter I'll give this a shot.

Cheers!

Dave B

I didn't see why I'd want so many followers on Twitter?
Thanks,
Debbie Kay

Interesting post ...

Is using twitter a proven sales generator? In comparison with say article writing, social bookmarking etc, what kind of impact does it have?

Thanks for this Todd.

I have a Twitter account and I've posted a few Tweets but I really don't know anything about it.

But this gives me a way in and I will definitely use this information!

Thanks a lot!

Chai

OK it definitely works

Where else can I search for targetted people to follow ?

What is the next level on twitter ? or do you just mean generally?

Okay...I was wondering how to get past following 2000....

Thank you. I haven't signed up with Twitter yet. It's on my list of to do's for tonight. Thanks again.

great post I'll give it a shot...

don't forget to follow me :-)

Good looks on this. I need Twitter followers who actually are looking to do business!

While having large numbers of people following you quickly seems like a good goal, its still best to actually interact with people who are in your twitter stream.

Remember twitter is like a big party, sure you could go to times square on new years eve and talk to as many people as you can, yet you may find it more rewarding to sit down at a small gathering and get to know the people instead.

Its about relationships, not raw numbers.

Going into twitter and shouting FIRE SALE isn't going to be well received and could end up getting your account shut down.

Another way to think of twitter is just like a large farm, sure you could go and fling seeds across thousands of acres.

A wise farmer will only plant as much acreage as they can tend to, planting seeds is one thing, bringing those seed to harvest is quite another.

Just 140 characters, seems so few, yet the growth of twitter says they are all you need.

Long form sales letters are great, yet when you master 140 characters nothing is impossible for you.

Mark

Todd,

I think my twitter karma is bad because I get people that follow me and then they dump me the next day. Man, that's worse than people not following me at all.

Any advice as to making good posts in a limited amount of space (140 characters)?

Jeff

I know this works as far as running up your follower count to impress people, but you really end up with a bunch of "fake" followers, people who auto follow everyone who follows them... rather than people who chose to follow you since they are interested in what you have to say.

There are people with way more than 5000; I've seen over 20,000.

im a complete twitter noob and will be trying this out!

Thank you for your post, I'm gaining more interest in Twitter the more I hear about it. Going to try what you outlined. Thanks again.

I want to know how many sales you are actually getting through Twitter.

I was an early adopter of Twitter, and I currently have over 2,000 followers without doing too many "gimmicks" -- mostly just engaging in the conversation and posting interesting Tweets. (Twitter / ericabiz if you want to see what I tweet to keep 2,000+ followers)

I do Tweet some affiliate links, etc. The most success I've had is getting people to visit my blog and having Twitterfeed send a reminder of my latest blog posts -- I do get a good amount of traffic through that. I enjoy engaging my readers.

As far as actual sales go, however, I haven't found Twitter to be that effective. I'd argue that a list of two hundred buyers is far more effective than two thousand followers on Twitter.

I've made a few hundred dollars in total, but it sure isn't worth the time spent just in dollars. I enjoy the social interaction, and that's why I'm there, but I wouldn't Tweet just for business.

Have any of you following this method made any big sales through Twitter?

-Erica

I've made quite a few sales of my products through twitter, but not through talking about them throught tweets.

I just have my product in my profile and link people to good content, they usually go "hey this guy gives me cool stuff, what's he all about?" Check out my profile, find my product and decide to buy it

Thank you, interesting.

I didn't know about this twitter site. I will start adding followers to my twit and see how it goes.

Franck

This strategy works... I can attest to it. I've been using it
for the past month already and it works.

It's simple stuff and the key to really having it succeed is
to repeat the process + being a real twitter

Asher

Thanks for sharing this with us. I was wondering how you could build up your twitter list quickly and actually get some followers.

Another good tip is not to do a whole lot of tweets in one go EG 5 or more - try to resist doing more than a couple of tweets at once - or they will stop following you.

Anyway I got 20 followers from about 3 minutes work testing this out - will try it more later.

Thanks for this!!!

Hey cool I'm gonna try this technique now!

Its funny because I'm trying to figure out what to do with Twikki.com and now this gives me an idea, Twello, Twitter and now Twikki ... lol

Thanks for the post Todd

Apparently nobody has seen Jmo's vid trashing the entire idea of getting tons of followers...

quality not quantity folks...

- Jared

Thanks for this info!!

I appreciate it as I am starting to use Twitter on a regular basis...

Happy Holidays to you and yours!

Pavon

This is really cool information, Todd. One of the posters suggested that you shouldn't post affiliate links all over the place, but what about just a few and disperse them between all of the other "tweets"?

Thanks for that post...I learned something new!

I never knew about the Twitter Karma!

Sean

Thanks for the sharing this networking strategy. It's to bad that some narrowminded people can't see the value in developing a network like this. Just because your followers don't buy your product does'nt mean that if its a good product that they won't pass it on to there list and sell it for you as your affiliate. Instead of focusing on how much money you're going to make from doing this, think of the potential ideas you could possible get from the people you're following. You never know where your next money making idea will come from. Anyway thanks again Todd.

To check if someone is following you or not, you can also check this service, which doesn't require you to enter your password. You only need to enter your twitter user name.

FriendOrFollow.com - Who's not following you back? Who aren't you following?

Thanks for the tips, Todd.

There are so many things to master as an IM'er. This forum is great, the discussion is great!

I enjoy seeing a strategy, then seeing others improve upon and give warnings about potential pitfalls. It takes a bit to absorb everything, but aside from the few disciplines I have - I don't know how I'd get past the learning curve so quick besides actually doing it and most likely falling flat on my face.

I appreciate both the strategy offered, as well as the criticisms and improvements!

Thank you everyone!

I have used this technique to add hundreds of friends. I am getting small amounts of traffic from Twitter when I post updates. Not great traffic, but every little bit counts!

I used Twitter to gain 2000+ followers in about 2-3 weeks, and took all of about 1 hour per day ... My method was similar to the OP, but what I do is

1) I find who is following who... so I go to person X (in a particular niche) and I follow the 5-10 most recent followers
2) and then go one of these people that I just followed, and I follow 5-10 of the people that just recently followed them.
3) Every week I go into my followers list, and I remove those that aren't following me or don't have an image uploaded by clicking on the followers link, and then click next. in the address bar you'll see ?page=2 then you can change this to ?page =100 to get to the 2000 visitor. Click previous and start removing the oldies that aren't following you.
4) Goto step 1.

My reasoning for choosing the top 5-10 is that they are currently active on twitter, and very likely to reciprocate a follow (huge reciprocation rate) and they have the same interest as the original tweeter.

My reason for getting rid of old followers that aren't following me is that they aren't really interested in me or what I might have to say.

My reason for getting rid of all followers/non-followers that don't have an image is that they aren't really serious enough for my taste. Show me that you care, and have a face, even if a logo, or scenary, no upload means no follow.

I've also found that people of all walks of life are just as interested in what I have to say as those that are in any particular niche... Maybe it's just the services I offer - not sure

As far as tweets are concerned, post fun stuff - alltop.com (from Guy Kawasaki) is an awesome way to find interesting material in a hurry, both on topic and off topic. Be real. be fun. be real fun. and occasionally post a link to a recent affilate link or blog post - but make it every 30th post or so.

Also, a tip I read somewhere (Net Effect maybe) was to leave a powerful link up for a few days - if you are launching a product, tweet it and leave it there for a few days before you tweet again to maximize the exposure.

One more thing - Don't waste time with twitter - I spent a week getting it set up so that I have about 2200 followers and naturally gain about 5-10/day w/o trying. Now I spend only 20 minutes/week on Twitter (or about 3-4 minutes / day ) checking up on things and Tweeting.

And one more thing after my one more thing I use TweekLater.com as a way to automate my followings and to get a digest of any replies that i've gotten - there are other services that they've added, but Ihaven't checked them all out. Feel free to check them out for me and let me know what you find.

If you want to tweet with me feel free - Twitter / kettlewell

Thanks, that's good advice. I'm slightly familiar with Twitter -I even have a few followers, lol, but I never heard of Twellow before, and it looks to be a very useful resource.

This is great info. I have never ever consider using twitter as a marketing tool. Your post makes me think otherwise and I'm off to use it. I am positive that I will get the same result as the rest of you guys!

Cheers.

Thanks for this - on my to do list today is to work out how to find people on Twitter with similar interests (I'm still getting my head around the whole Twitter thing), so your post will really help me out.

Katie

Thanks for the ideas.
Will surely try it out.

bye,
faraz

Thanks for the Your Twitter Karma link, I've been looking like something like this for a while.
I spent 30 mins the other night going down 58 pages and deleting those who weren't following me..lol

very difficult to monetize this system i'd say forget twitter ...

Twitter magpie Magpie | Users is also good for revenue but beware as some followers dont like to be blasted with ads.

Hey nice trick you got there!
I don't really used twitter before

Will try it ASAP

Thanks very much for the valuable tip

I once tried following like 100 people a day and Twitter paused my account to check it out andmake sure i wasnt planning to spam. I simply dont recommend it.

Takes alot of clicking and page loading but, if you've got the time, it's a great way to connect with other people with the same interest(s) you have.
As Twitter being a highly powerful viral marketing tool I can imagine using Twellow to help you connect with some key players, you'll grow a large list of followers in no time.
Great resource!

Nice tactic .... i will have to try this one, feels like spam though, a lot of things on twitter feel like spam to me

Thanks for the advice, that's what I'm doing for now.
I have gotten 2500 twitter followers for that

Yep tweetlater.com is fine for sending an automated response. Just make sure you don't do one like this... 'Thanks for the follow... check out my thang here' or 'buy my thang'.

Real turn off.

Also don't auto follow people. I did that for a while. I now go in and check each person out. If they have nothing in common with me (e.g. they are into holistic something or other, etc) I don't follow them. I also now NEVER follow anyone who can't even be bothered to at least put an Avatar on there (I prefer real photos).

I see people on there with NO picture, NO posts and they are following 1999 people! The worst bit is, 894 are following them back!!

I'm with Jason on this one. Unless you follow people who you have an interest in (and it may be just that they are fellow IMers) and they have an interest in you, what's the point?

Dave B

PS. Get this though... I think I may have pulled on there. LOL! Watch this space Don't worry I'll do a WSO

Nice tip I will give it a try and let you know.

Wow, it works like a charm. I had 22 followers within an hour and I will carryon doing it at see how many will I have by the end of the week.

I also start seeing some traffic from it

Interesting technique..I will test it myself and see how many followers I can get...

Todd,

Thanks for this post. I heard there was an application such as "Twitter Karma", I just did not know where to find it. This help me clean up my Twitter account.

Anna

thanks for sharing about the twellow, nice site it is

Thanks for the info - I've just started (trying) to get into Twitter seriously. Going to work at it for a month, not really focusing on revenue earned but more on using it to network.

I'm working on a project that is going to need beta testers and I've already lined up a few qualified ones with Twitter (and with Blellow, which is sort of a business-minded version of Twitter). I've exchanged programming advice with a few people and I've received some excellent information (or rather links to excellent advice) on some patent and copyright issues I was unsure about. And I'm dying to come up with a project for the Twitter API, but all of the good ones seem to be built already!

I've also made some local friends - I've even been invited to the Hawaii Geek Picnic next weekend!

Just wanted Todd for his excellent post and also wanted to ask him one question that has been haunting me throughout this thread:

Q - Todd, why don't you have a Twitter link in your Social Networking Box? How am I supposed to follow you?

:confused:

Aloha

Bill

Thanks for the info. And Dana_W is right on.

Well, having started to autofollow people on Twitter I've now stopped that altogether... I was getting too many people, who couldn't be bothered to put up even an avatar and in quite a few cases not even one tweet.

I'm also heartily sick of getting people's autoresponses when I do follow them that just say 'Hi, thanks for the follow now buy this, etc'

I really don't think there is much point having thousands of followers on Twitter just for the sake of it.

I feed my blog and lenses in there, the rest of the time, it's topical news stories and rock vids. Guess which gets the most clicks?

Dave B

Great idea, I also have a system similar to that also.

This is a great tip - I've been doing this for my twitter accounts too - however I'm surprised you're getting away with adding 400 more per day. I got suspended for 1 week - accused of aggressive following.

After chatting with the support person, she said about 100 per day was the max. But maybe she was trying to reign me in a bit on the following. I just tried the twitter karma trick last night and freed up 500 spots of those who weren't following me back.

Twitter does work great - I sent out about 15 tweets over 2 days of the results I was getting using a piece of software to get top ten google rankings in less than 24 hours - and made 2 sales of the software through its affiliate program. That's with only about 1700 followers. Twitter is awesome!

Thanks for the tips!!

I followed this advice and it really has worked wonders!! I don't feel I compensated on the quality of followers either because they're all in my niche and we have some great conversations and I'm learning so much! And hopefully sharing something with them as well.
Thanks for the post!

When you get twitter followers can you ask them to relay a message to help someone?

Rose

Todd,

Thanks for the strategy. I appreciate the tip.

Crystal

You can think of twitter like a game you only play 5 minutes at a time, and during those 5 minutes you have to say something that is of value to other people (which could be to point to a cool link for something) + respond to someone(s)' tweets that you like, follow 1-2 tweeps, and be as clever/witty/charming/real as possible.

Some people don't like that game. But I do.

Now I have to close the gap with the last 190 tweeple to get to the next level so I can follow more tweeple whose posts I really value; it's been so sad not to be able to follow more than 2000 as new tweeple come online -- like a lot of the warriors here, for instance :-)

But does it work? Depends on what you're using it for. I've gotten sales, clients, JV partners, and some of the absolute best info anywhere + breaking news flashes (I even scooped one myself one day -- rare thing.)

So yeah, I guess I'm a twitter addict. (Err, would that make me a twiddict???)

Todd,
Thanks for this information. I see the thread ended up dipping into the "quality vs quantity" paradigm. I am glad to see people who do make this work for them enter the thread and report on their success. I have not tried any twitter marketing but now I think I will add this to my list of things to try. Without a list of new things to try, I would soon become bored with internet marketing. So thanks for the detailed steps I need to try something new!

twitter is good.. but facebook is better

not even on twitter, but I will now. thanks for the great input.

chris

Awesome technique. I just signed up for Twitter today. Feel free to follow me.

I don't know about quality yet, but since I read this article a week ago I've gone from under 100 followers to over 900 with a few minutes of work on this each day.

Thanks for the step by step and Thanks Dana_W. I am sold on Twitter. I can't wait to get started. From all the posts I have read how can you go wrong. Like it was said each follower is a potential customer/client. Twitter is another great tool.

Twitter gives me a damn headache but I'm willing to learn all I can about it so thank you!

Here's another tip: if twitter karma is not working (happens all the time) you can use huitter.com for mass unfollowing.

If I had a way to add 6000 followers a day on autopilot, do you think I should do a WSO for it? Ive never done a WSO but would be willing to do one if people are interested.

Serious question...

Edit...I can do it...but I would never do it on my main account. The twitter police already know me well.

I doubt you can reach 750 followers with a max 400 following per day.

I doubt you can reach 750 followers with a max 400 following per day. But I'll give it a shot to see whether it's possible or not.

Wow 5 hours I got 117 follower.

But my account had been block. I post more than 200 person to follow .
Help me.

looks good todd, thanks. ill give it a crack!

This technique was mentioned by another member many months ago.I tried this technique and I've to say that it was useful. Thanks for reminding us!!

Hi, thanks for the advice!!!
Very good!

Great info Todd. When I started using twitter I clicked on quite a few of other peoples' followers to get me going and then got to the stage where I had about 400 that were not following me so have just sorted that out with Twitter Karma! Very useful tool thx.

Cheers Keith

Thats definitely what I wanted as for the sure reason that having so my followers in twitter gives you an edge in the online marketing space where you will definitely be able to convert the prospects into clients and hence get all the benefit out of it!

Thanks for the advices. I already have almost 1000 followers but another few hundreds would not harm.

Is Twitter of any use for a retail website? Please explain. Thanks!

I still haven't tapped into Twitter as a resource. I don't feel like tweeting about affiliate products or driving people to my landing pages. I'd much rather use if for something that would benefit my followers.

Thank you. Topic bookmarked.

Twitter is not a sales site . It is a great site to build your email list from. I have never tried to make a real direct sale on twitter . I have made a lot of sales from the email list it has built

A lot of the information in this post is old . If you have under 2000 followers , 400 new ads will get you at least noticed if not banned . I am over the mark with several accounts and I never try to ad over 300 a day .

Jason is correct on the 10,000 to 250 ratio. The ratio stays pretty much the same but out of the 250 around 175 will be the same people (just run a tracker, the raw hits are the same ones ) . That gives you 75 new eyeballs .

Your mass unfollows will get you inas much if not more trouble than the mass follows.

Yes twitter karma does kind of stink but it is worth every dime I paid for it (even though it no longer works on some of my accounts )

If there is a lesson to be learned here . Capture all the twitter followers you can on an email list . Although I don't see it going anywhere in the near future if it does just go away, the list you build from it will still be yours .

I have only a few followers and have not used any software to automate things. I guess I need to sit down and read up on the proper way to Tweet using software so I don't get myself in trouble. Looks like there is a daily limit. Does anyone prefer manual versus automated options? What are the pros and cons?

How do you find a person your following's followers at Twellow?

Thanks,

Jeff

Follow me, I'll follow you - can't get more targeted then a bunch of warriors!

Im on twitter but I can't figure out how to get into my profile and put what my interests are etc. I don't see a profile button or anything.

Good stuff todd

cheers

marcus

Thanks for sharing this great post

Good ideas in this thread...if you really
put some thought into this, you can come
up with some good ways to make money.

I'm coming up with a couple just by
reading what's found here.

It's all about action.

Cool, nice find.

I also recommend twitterfeed dot com which automatically tweets your blog posts - I love it.

I found the twitter karma not working. Please advise me how to use it.

Great post! Thanbks for sharing Todd. Is there anyone who have tried any other different method in driving tons of followers in twitter? I'm gonna try this now!!!