How to get 19000 Twitter followers in a few days

13 Feb 09 3:54 am

Already did set up that account- today - and it is working like crazy!
twitter.com/judykkelly
squidoo.com/onlinenewbietraining

26 Feb 09 4:12 pm

Yeah, this looks pretty interesting. Not really sure what the benefit of having so many people following you or you following them. I started Twitter when I started this course but haven't really done anything with it.

I did get the twitter thing here to try it out. Here is my twittergetter.

http://tweetergetter.com/denisjorgensen

Hey check this out...

I just found this site that shows you a
way of getting 1000's of new followers
on twitter, I just started using it
myself and its starting to work
already.

http://tweetergetter.com/denisjorgensen

Thought it might interest you.

I did get 10 followers the first day. Pretty cool!

Denis

10 Jul 09 4:48 am

I'm sorry to tell you Sean, but I suspect that these systems or anything like them are pretty much useless.

You see, you might get thousands of followers, but they're going to be all random accounts or other people trying to flog off products. So you end up with this little community of people following each other on Twitter, selling the same products, with no one actually buying anything! That's not what Twitter's about.

Twitter is about communication and content. It allows you to follow interesting people from around the world as well as be followed be people who find you interesting. Building up Twitter numbers is not about a 'quick fix', but engaging with people, linking to interesting stuff, and providing interesting content.

I've built up the Affilorama Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/affilorama) to nearly 2000 followers. It's taken months, but the large majority of those followers are people who actually care what we have to say. We get retweeted and Twitter is a huge source of traffic to our site. Why? Because people can rely on the stuff we post to be worth looking at. If you build up trust with people, then when you link them to a decent page that is selling something, or your own product, they'll be interested.

I think these system's completely miss the point of Twitter, and I suspect that in the coming months Twitter will tighten up controls to stop these kind of pyramid follower schemes. Twitter has no problem with commercialization of their network - just not spam.

I'd use Twitter personally first, use it to find interesting content and follow interesting people - then once you've become familiar with what works on Twitter, then you can start making account for your websites.

12 Jul 09 12:43 am

Yeah, It's a bit of a turn off when these systems allow you to get 50 billion twitter followers ( lol ) and then they offer no value at all to anyone but to spam the crap out of them.
Does it work? probably, but at what cost?
1. You get a bad rep.
2. You offer no real value to anyone.
3. All you want to do is make money by spamming people via tweets.

If you are going to use a program or system to add people to your twitter followers then that's fine but provide real value and help to people who want and need it.

My 2 cents.
Regards
Troy

17 Jul 09 2:23 am

Hey Renato - Thanks for that link. I'll be honest when I first saw the page, I was a little skeptical as to the quality of the content - one of those good old sales pages... let's be honest, you've seen one, seen 'em all! But Perry does have some really interesting stuff to say. That little ebook he has for free download is really interesting, he's definitely on the right track with his attitudes towards social media.

Thanks!