Should I Buy Twitter Followers?

Not true. The "social proof" you'll get from having a high number of followers will encourage real people to follow you.

Same for people who subscribe to your feed or anything...

I agree. Unless you can guarantee that the followers you buy are real it really has very little value. It can make you look good on the outside-make others think you are very popular-but it doesn't get you real results unless the followers are authentic.

Agreed, the money would be better spent elsewhere

Exactly. Plus, unless you know for sure you are buying real humans, which is impossible to prove, the followers will consistently fall off or stop following.

Finally, if you buy too many in comparison to how many followers you currently have, Twitter will get suspicious and may flag you. There have been cases of Twitter locking sites that have "suspicious" activity.

If you go from 5,000 followers to 50,000 in a short time Twitter will def know something is up because they have limit of 2,000 new followers a day and if you suddenly have 50,000, they'll know something is off.

Be sure and put #Ifollowback or similar hashtags on all your tweets and that will help you find ppl to follow you. But keep in mind it's best to find followers in your genre.

Good luck.

If you are targeting a market that is heavily influenced by what Cialdini calls "SOCIAL PROOF" then buying followers could be a correct play.

I have noticed that in swap meets, when a store has a lot of people crowding over it, it attracts more and more people. But when there are no people in a store then no one goes there. Same goes for food trucks. People tend to pile on each other when they see that others are already doing it.

If people notice that you have a lot of followers then they might follow just because "others" are doing it. Kinda like movie that is getting good word of mouth.

It's pretty easy to gather real Twitter followers who are going to have more of an interest in what you have to say - it's worth putting a bit of time and effort into it.

I'm pretty sure buying Twitter followers would be a complete waste of money and certainly wouldn't be very targetted.

This.
The only reason that people buy Twitter followers from us is to beef up their newly created business accounts. That way people feel "more inclined" to follow them. Come on, who would trust a company that only had 12 followers? Let's get real guys.

Oddly enough, it does. Not directly, though. The followers you've bought will never be your clients, but having 500 followers instead of 50 may make you look more authoritative to real people and convince them to follow you.

You're absolutely right, Brad. Like has already been said,
people want to go where other people are, and for the most
part, want to hang out with the cool kids.

True story:

In 1977 at the height of the Disco era, a good friend of
mine opened up a new club in a busy section of Chicago.
Now, those of you from around there probably know how
tough Chicago is to get established, but Mark had a plan.

Instead of spending a bundle on advertising which would
have made him look un-cool, he had several of his friends
hit the streets and give out tickets.

Each ticket entitled the holder to a free night of dancing
and drinking at the new club. I think they gave out
somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 tickets, and the
way he worked it - only the ticket holder got in free. Any
guest had to pay.

At any rate, he packed the house with a line out the door
of people waiting to get in.

All the people standing outside gave the impression this was
"THE" place to be and on his opening night, he told me he
not only recovered his losses from the freebies, but managed
to turn almost a $10,000 profit!

And that was in 1977 when ten grand was still worth close to
that amount!

So yes, having a crowd of followers around you can benefit
you from the standpoint that was already mentioned. You'll
give the impression that you're one of the "Cool Kids" and
more people will want to follow you.

Michael

This is exactly it. You are depending on people not knowing about the fact that you can buy followers for a few cents each.

Just don't expect to have meaningful conversations with these followers (or to have them click your links).

I do not see a large potential in twitter marketing but if you want free twitter followers try social clerks

I totally agree with David. Google Plus actually works in the favor of your work. I have heard much about the traffic from the twitter and its cons but after sending so much time i didn't got anything.

I say yes. I have heard great stories from about ten businesses i know that have bought twitter followers. It has proven for them that the more followers they had the more inclined others were interested in following them... I say its a great head start to begin your campaigns...

Why you want?<< is that necessary to ask? may be he have some social marketing strategy plan.

My first thought was "no frickin' way should anyone ever buy followers" for various reasons, but Aswad's idea seems really smart. Real potential followers may be influenced by the social proof that is your current number of subscribers.

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I went ahead and bought over 3,000 twitter followers for $5 as a gig on Fiverr.com. Now I can follow thousands of people in my niche, many will follow back (especially seeing that I'm already followed by so many people), and then I actually plan over time to prune out the fake followers.

^^ This is exactly it , it really depends on what you plan on doing with your twitter account but i a running start definitely helps in many ways

a friend of mine just purchased from an ad he found on craigslist. it had a website link and the site offered 12,000+ followers for $24.99 and they only added US and Canada user accounts to follow him. he says they over delivered, he got a little over 17,000 instead and since then he's been getting lots of new followers ever since. he does post a lot though but says he recommends these guys, here's their link: promoservices.webs.com

I have a twitter account but I just never really seen the point in it, could care less about what other people say and do, especially if I don't know them, I guess that's why FB is so popular. anyways, just thought I'd share.

Thank you.

I do not understand idea of buying Twitter Followers. Better promote the page in a different way

It's not as noticeable with Facebook, but people will expect some kind of engagement from your followers. If you're sitting on 10,000 followers and hardly ever get retweets/favourites, it can seem quite fake.

Similarly, if you've only tweeted 5 times and got 10,000 followers, it looks a bit spammy as well, and would actually put me off dealing with a company.