Twitter Account Banned

As a list builder I fully understand the relationship thing . I have never auto followed and very seldom follow anyone that doesn't follow me first . I still gain around 50 new followers a day .

I do tweet a lot of free stuff that helps marketers and they choose to sign up to get it . Like I said with me it is all about the list . Once on the list them I try to advance the relationship.

The Rich Jerk . Actually the first one that got me interested in marketing :-)

You don't have to spam them. The key to this strategy is to provide value and attract suspects into your funnel so they can become prospects. They people that are just building up followers and spamming affiliate links probably aren't getting anywhere other than suspended.

It's all about numbers. With 10,000 followers you can filter your twitter stream and look for opportunities to have a conversation with people that you can move into other contact points such as your blog. Just set up a column on Tweetdeck to roll a real time search for keywords in your niche. You'll have a steady flow of leads. Likewise, you can tweet useful information, which will gather retweets and responses from people that you can move along further.

It's the difference between going door-to-door and setting up shop on a busy street corner during the Christmas rush. The more people walking by, the more likely you'll run into one that's within your target.

I see from James' twitter account that he currently has 63 followers. Let's say he gets a 100% response rate from those carefully chosen, handcrafted followers. I could have a 0.2% (2/10ths of a percent) response on my 27K followers and be ahead of him. And the response rate is a heckuva lot higher than that. Throw in several other accounts and you can have very large numbers even with a low response rate.

But hey, stick with whatever strategy you think is working for you. The beauty of Twitter is that everybody gets to use it however they want. No one is forcing anyone to follow anyone.

Only thing is, I never mentioned reciprocal links. :-) Of course web rings, top site lists once gave link juice, but I never said reciprocal linking as I know it worked. Regardless, the items I mentioned quickly lost their lustre, but people kept doing them long after. That was my only point - people do things even if they aren't entirely beneficial.

Good example of Internet marketers gaming a system for short-term results. Why not focus on long-term business growth (if people are in it for the long-haul) instead of trying the quick bursts of big traffic? And again, traffic from Digg may be huge, but traffic for traffic's sake isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Again, it's a popularity contest for some...and popularity doesn't always pay the bills.

Yes, for some it is. I think I said that...but I guess I used the word they "think" it is. But I guess I should say, "Some people approach it as a popularity contest." And dude, don't sell me on the fact that people will mine my follower list just because I have lots of followers. That is of no interest to me. It's the same old game...over and over again. People mindlessly following other people to boost their perceived popularity.

Sure, there are lots of people who get thousands of followers - that works. Nobody disputed that. You also used to be able to buy a million hits to your website (or maybe you still can) and we all know what happens with those.

Sure, it'd be great to have 20,000 followers who clicked 1%. Thing is, no automated software building a list of garbage followers (the people aren't garbage, but the value of the list - generally speaking is) is going to achieve that on any type of consistent basis.

But here's where you might miss the point from those of us talking about QUALITY over QUANTITY. It's not about clicking links, finding customers, etc. For me, it's about making CONNECTIONS. Finding people who you can create products with, co-promote, create connections with other key people, finding talented contractors, etc. Click my link or don't click my link...I'm here to build business ASSETS...not simply a random click.


Thanks for answering all my points, but this one doesn't address the fact that I said many people put more effort into getting that traffic than they need to. Of course, people (including myself) can always use more traffic. I prefer to put effort into more targeted methods. That doesn't mean Twitter doesn't come into play...I just do it targeted. In other words, I don't fish (manually or in an automated way) for people I hope/pray might be interested in what I have to say.

Alice

So that's what happen, twitter detects bots...

One of my friend also got banned now i know this could be the possible reason...

Thanks for the warn Mr.Wright.

It is supposed to show under your WF Avatar in the Social Networking box..

James

Actually, many of those have long since disappeared, I just can't be bothered un-following. I only un-follow those who start multi-Tweeting their latest blog post or other promotional crap, without any true interaction.

ltdraper,

I don't have much use for the kind of product you offer, but I have to say that I really like the way you're handling your replies here.

It's unusual enough that I thought it deserved mention. Thank you.


Paul