Growing your followers - easily :-)

A BIT ABOUT US

This website has one purpose - to help you find and grow your Twitter followers! To that end we publish proven techniques to find and grow your followers. We also identify the tools that can make the task easy.

If you find this website to be of use, we would appreciate it if you would tweet about it and generally tell everyone you know!

 
 
 

Tips for Finding Followers - easily :-)

TOP TIPS

You can approach building your followers from the following perspectives: focus on building followers and friends that are engaged in providing information on a topic of interest and relevance to yourself; or simply going for raw numbers.

If you are going to focus on building followers of relevance, then you will need to spend a significant amount of your time doing research. Luckily there are lots of tools to help you with this. You can use the Twitter search function and various Twitter-related directories to find users who are tweeting on topics of interest and then follow them.

If you are going to focus on building a large number of followers you should focus on finding and following those users who have published their willingness to "follow back" any user who follows them. If this is your approach, then you will find the twitteruserswhowillfollowyouback list of great value, particularly if you use it in conjunction with a tool such as Tweet Adder.

To help attract other users to follow you (independent of your out-bound efforts!), you should ensure your Twitter bio has relevant keywords and description to help people determine your relevance to their interests.

You should set aside time each day to work on building your followers. You can automate this to a large degree if you use a tool like Tweet Adder.

TWITTER TWEETS HASHTAGS

Users who include these hashtags in their posts can be generally expected to follow you back #wefollowback, #followback, #ifollowback

#followbackfriday - every Friday people will tweet with this hashtag with people they want you to follow and who will follow you back.

TWITTER ACCOUNT BIOGRAPHY FLAGS

To indicate you will follow back others who follow you, the following are generally used "If you follow me, I will follow you!", "I follow back!", "iFollowback".

CAUTION

You can have your Twitter account suspended if you break specified rules. There are several reasons why your account might be suspended -

Unauthorized scripting of the site

Unauthorized serial account creation

Unauthorized mass account creation

User name squatting

Account contains links pointing to phishing sites, malware, or other harmful material

An account is identified as belonging to a group of spam accounts

A large number of people block the profile in question

A large number of people write in with spam complaints for a specific profile

Aggressive following (a large number of people are followed in a short amount of time)

Extremely imbalanced follower/following ratio

Updates consist of duplicate or repeating links and/or text

Updates consist mainly of links and not personal updates

Links in updates disguise the real content of a link given in a misleading or deceptive way.

Unauthorized re-tweets (poaching and posting other users updates) passed off as original content

Copyright Infringement

Impersonation

Violence and/or specific threats

Unlawful use

Privacy infringement

Trademark Infringement

 

Tweet Adder is the best tool to grow followers
- Bar None - Highly recommended! :-)

Tweet Adder

Tweet Adder is the best tool for anyone who wants to build followers quickly, efficiently and painlessly!

Tweet Adder

Tweet Adder is the best tool for anyone who wants to build followers quickly, efficiently and painlessly!

Tweet Adder

Tweet Adder is the best tool for anyone who wants to build followers quickly, efficiently and painlessly!

Tweet Adder

Tweet Adder is the best tool for anyone who wants to build followers quickly, efficiently and painlessly!

OTHER USEFUL TOOLS

Tweepler

Tweepler lets you make quick, one click decisions about whether to follow people back or drop them into an ignore pile. In addition to being able to view recent tweets, Tweepler gives helpful stats about new followers, such as average tweets per day.

Twitoria

Nest.Unclutterer will automatically block Twitter users who are following more than a certain number of people or who have been inactive for a certain number of days. You can specify those thresholds and white list certain tweeps so that they are exempt from the cleaning.

Qwitter

Qwitter will update you via email whenever someone stops following you. It will even let you know what you tweeted that caused them to stop following you, which could be useful.

Friend or Follow

Friend or Follow is similar to Twitter Karma, helping you figure out who your friends, follows, and fans are on Twitter.

Twitter Karma

Twitter Karma lets you sort through all of your follows and see who is not following you in return, who you have a mutual follow/follow-back relationship with, and who is following you that you are not following back.

Tweetcloud

One of the most important factors when deciding whether you want to follow a Twitter user is what sort of content they tweet about. If someone tweets mostly about topics you don not care about, they might not be the best person for you to follow. Tweetcloud creates a tag cloud of a persons tweets to give you a birds eye view of the type of things they tweet about.

Twitter Grader

Twitter Grader assigns every users you run through its system a grade from 1-100. Using this tool you can investigate how engaged the people you are following are and that can help you decide if you want to keep following them.

Twinfluence

Twinfluence is a scientific approach to measuring the influence of Twitter users. It is another set of metrics you can use to help you figure out who you want to follow.

Twittercounter

A counter showing you the number of Twitter followers. It provides some interesting statistics on predicting future growth numbers.

We Follow

A directory that lets you find the best people in your area of interest to follow.

Huitter

Mass Unfollow those who are not following you back

Tweet Stats

Charts your Twitter stats for: tweets per hours, tweets per month, tweet timeline, reply statistics

Mr. Milestone

Sends you a tweet after every 100 followers you add, up to 100 followers, and then afte every 1,000 followers ongoing.

Twibes

Twitter user directory

Geofollow

Location based Twitter directory covering the whole planet

Twellow

Twitter user directory

JustTweetIt

Twitter user directory

tlists

Tools to create and manage Twitter Lists

FashTweet

FlashTweet is a Twitter application that simplifies the process of acquiring more targeted followers. You can add multiple Twitter accounts to your profile, discover who you are following that is following you back, mass follow users based on search terms and location, unfollow multiple friends at once, schedule tweets in advance to run throughout the week, insert RSS feeds that will automatically tweet the title and link of your blog or another site.

KillerTweets

Twitter account background graphics

SocialOomph

A tool that enables you to type in tweets and save them for future use. It also saves you much valuable time by permitting you to autofollow all of your followers.

Twollo

This tool uses an automated format to enable you to follow people with similar interests. Sort instance, if you are interested in waterskiing, or you need to do is to enter waterskiing into the website and how many people you wish to follow who have the same interests.

Chirpstats

Chirpstats is a Twitter follower analytics package built to help you track and learn more about your follower-base.

Mr Tweet

Tool to find most relevant people, get useful statistics and more

Who Should I Follow?

Suggestions on interesting people to follow.

MrCleenr

It allows you to get rid off all the inactive and useless accounts that you are following

Twimailer

Delivers tweets to your email account

Tweep Search

Search the tweets of your friends and followers

TwitterMass

Runs automated campaigns to grow your followers (pay service)

TwitterHolic

Provides updated lists of the most popular Twitter users

Follow Cost

Provides information on how annoying it will be to follow a specific user based on their average updates

Does Follow

Find out who is following who and get positive/negative response

TwtPoll

Tool for creating polls for Twitter

Twitter Feed

Tool for converting RSS feeds to automatic Twitter updates

 

Want to know the secret to
EXTREME FOLLOWER GROWTH? :-)

EXTREME FOLLOWER GROWTH

Extreme growth can be had if you are willing to pay big bucks.

There are a number of services that cater to both the raw number growth objective as well as the targeted community of interest growth strategies.

TwitterCounter offers a "Featured User" service which advertises your Twitter account on their very popular website. This service can add thousands of followers to your Twitter account in a a very short period of time. Their rates range from $65 to $15,000. This service has proven to be the most effective of the services we have used todate and is highly recommended!

Tweecha will research and find specified numbers of targeted followers for your Twitter account. Their rates range from $30 to $3,000.

Featured Users offers a banner advertisement service where the banners are rotated on a range of Twitter-related websites, their rates range from $20 to $5000.

Twitter1K offers targeted followers. Their rates range from $25 to $120.

ECONOMICAL EXTREME FOLLOWER GROWTH

An easy and economical solution to achieving EXTREME GROWTH in followers is to use Tweet Adder and the twitteruserswhowillfollowyouback list.

 

Best Mobile Applications for Twitter to Stay Connected! :-)

RECOMMENDED APPLICATIONS

MyPolitics Canada

MyPolitics Canada is a political dashboard for Canada. It has a fully integrated Twitter client. It has pre-configured Twitter lists for all active politicians. It has pre-configured news feeds related to Canadian politics. Users can forward and annotate tweets to their own network.

MyPolitics USA

MyPolitics USA is a political dashboard for the United States. It has a fully integrated Twitter client. It has pre-configured Twitter lists for all active politicians. It has pre-configured news feeds related to US politics. Users can forward and annotate tweets to their own network.

Mood of the Nation

Mood of the Nation is a pulse-taking application for the world. It has a built-in Twitter client. Users can post Tweets their mood using this client, and they can see the mood of others. The application provides some really cool real-time graphing of world-wide trends over time!

Ego!

Ego! allows you to track your follower growth from your iPhone

HootSuite

HootSuite is a general purpose Twitter client for your iPhone. It supports multiple Twitter accounts.

TWITTER IS MOBILE!

The Pew Internet and American Life Project did research in 2009 that characterized Twitter users as young, mobile, and new media savvy.

 

How to Make Money Using Twitter :-)

Six Ways to Make Money Using Twitter

Turn Followers Into Creators

Use Twitter to solicit members of the community to contribute to your business. An example being SkinnyCorp which sells T-shirts online. They used Twitter to solicit amateur designers to contribute new T-shirt designs.

Sell Products on Twitter

Use Twitter to market your products to customers. An example being Woot. The company sells discounted products online. They use Twitter to advertise their daily special offer product.

Look for Leads on Twitter

Twitter users are typically young and mobile. Products and services companies often data-mine tweets and user bios to find leads. An example being Rose Associates who manage luxury apartment buildings. They search for phrases in tweets that would indicate someone looking for real estate in their market and then contact them via Twitter.

Sell Products or Services for Twitter

Twitter represents a business ecosystem keystone upon which other businesses may base products and services. For example there are numerous online software tools such as are listed here. There are also many software packages such as Tweet Adder that exist solely due to Twitter.

There are also many consultants and companies providing professional services related to the commercial use of Twitter and Twitter related data.

Find Customers Anywhere

Twitter can be used as an inexpensive and effective communications vehicle to share general updates on scheduling and availability of products and services. Indie bands for example can use Twitter to share information on upcoming venues.

Sell Advertising

Twitter users, particularly those with lots of followers, can make money using commercial advertising services. Examples of available services include MagPie.

TWITTER IS GROWING!

As of October 2009, Twitter.com experienced user growth (measured by the number of new subscribers) of 200 percent over 2008 statistical data.

The following Twitter statistics count users aged 18 and older who visit or use Twitter at least once per month:

2008: 6.0 Million Users (11.1% of adult Internet users.)

2009: 18 Million Users (3.8% of adult Internet users.)

2010: (Projected) 26 Million Users (15.5 % of adult internet users.).

 

Get a Professional Twitter Job :-)

Twitter Related Jobs

Twitter-related Skills Job Market

There are an increasing number of professional jobs that involve Twitter skills as part of the job description. Indeed.com is a good starting point to look for job hunting leads.

 

Want more information -
Check out these resources! :-)

References


We Follow Back

1001 Twitter Users Who Will Follow You Back

Listorious

Twitter @followbackrules

Twitterholic

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