@Harsh, there’s no point in following bots. The follow back or blindly follow strategy should be revisited after you hit a certain # of followers.

The point 1 is very effective, Twitter has a limit of following 1000 people in a day. Follow 500 a day for next 3 days and then after 2 days use any massunfollower tool. And see your Twittter follower growing.

When you talk of someone they feel sort of happy and important lol. Use the @ before their name so that they are alerted that you said something about them.

One thing however avoid using it for the Over-Proud-Too-Popular-Bloggers… as they dont even look at their tweets lol.

@Richael, I agree that the cream layer on twitter is a very small percentage and probably they are doing great. As for blindly following people, it is just for the heck of getting the initial follow-back count up. People have this affinity towards high numbers and are likely to follow somebody who already has a big fan base As I mentioned later in the post, you have to unfollow all those spammers and inactive members at some point.

@Arun, good point on tweting the resources that might get bookmarked. Basically by retweeting I covered that part, I guess… What I meant is that even if you don’t create ideas, just propagate them to get some fan following As for blindly following, please read my reply above.

@Shanker, LOL you have a binary reply…

@snipe, I was talking about how can one get an initial follower base and then clean it up later. As for me, despites the commandments and rules, twitter and twitter based directories are still spammy in nature.

@Sandeep, great to know that your follower base is rapidly increasing

@Nihar, even I do not use it much…however, I see there are some visitors to my site from twitter as well. Need to see if it’s something countable yet. If not, I might as well keep away from tweeting

@Lee, agree… see my replies above

Thank you all for your inputs

Regards,
Lee

I still don’t get any traffic from twitter by twitting.

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I was pretty surprised myself to see such a jump in my followers list… I guess the more you tweet the more followers you get…. But make sure not to tweet in 100′s in day or Twitter might just ban you…

Ajith.. retweeting is a gr8 idea… Need to try this one out!

Cheers
Sandeep

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These tips are garbage. The only followers you will end up getting are social media douchebags who will auto-follow anyone to artificially inflate their follower count. So you end up with potentially thousands of followers, NONE of whom are actually listening to you. There are NO shortcuts to building a follower list of people who will actually pay even an iota of attention to you.

Having followers does not implicitly mean ANY of those followers are listening to you. When you build connections based on these tactics, you’re not providing any value to your followers whatsoever, so they won’t be paying any attention when you have something to say.

Shame on you for giving out this advice. You clearly don’t have the slightly clue how Twitter works, and by your own admission are not really even quallified to comment.

Its damaging to the overall health of Twitter as a community, and it , *doesn’t* work, other than to artificially inflate follower counts, which gets you exactly nothing.

The only way to get quality followers that actually listen when you tweet is to work at it. There’s no quick fix. Bring something to the table for followers to find value in, or go find another social network to pollute.

If anyone is actually interested in the real way to behave on twitter so that you get and retain followers that actually count, see http://www.twitcommandments.com

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Some ways I use:

1. Tweet out resources that people like to book-mark.

2. Talk to others, go crazy and viral that people start complaining that you are spamming them.. It works

Basically, the first tip, to follow other blindly is a worthless thing (not that your tips wont work, no offense pls). I have over 3000 followers on my main profile @ArunBasilLal but links I post there get very poor response. Where as on my blogs profile @MillionClues I get huge response for every link. Actually having dedicated followers is more important than the numbers.

But I have some great friends at the first profile, these days I use it to talk with them

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While I am a fan of twitter too and believe that through wise utilization if it, you can bring in a decent traffic figure, twitter is also far overrated.

To be honest, blindly following everyone does no good. What is the use when people you follow are never ever active?

Twitter is really effective once you have gain followers just by sitting there. Guess celebrities are a perfect example here.

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But just people going crazy about that. 100′s of supporting came online for twitter. Is that really powerful? But why we are not finding it useful?

All unanswered questions for me

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