Let’s face it.
There are two kinds of people in the world.
People who tweet.
And people who don’t.
I first joined Twitter as @halwilkerson back in July of 2007. I think there were about 30,000 total tweeters on Twitter.com at that time, and most people hadn’t even heard of it.
It was far from mainstream.
I read about it in Wired Magazine, about how the author was able to keep up with a friend of his who he’d not spoken too, but knew that she was busy with term papers and finals and things like that, just by reading her tweets.
It sort of appealed to me, and I think my first tweet was actually an update from the curb of the Inter-Island Terminal here in Honolulu from my iPhone after I’d just gotten back from a weeks vacation to Maui.
I was standing there waiting for the rental car shuttle to pick me up, so I just reported that on my twitter via my iPhone. In fact, I think I was lamenting the fact that the awesome week in Maui was finished, and it was time to get back to the real world.
Anyway- fast forward a few years. I didn’t really start using Twitter heavily until I started Internet Marketing. At that point I think I had maybe 600 followers or something.
Well, the year was now 2010, and it seemed like 2009 was the year of the tweet.
Twitter has gone through some changes, but has sort of normalized into a usable medium that allows average joes like you and me to keep up with what interests us.
So, how did I go from 600 followers in January of 2010, to over 17,676 (count as I write this article)?
Well, someone introduced me to a software called ‘Tweet Adder’ and it’s been pretty much on autopilot ever since.
Now, the Twitter API actually has restrictions (because some people have abused the service), so you can’t add more than several hundred per day (per account), but basically…
Set this software up to autofollow up to 200 people per day. An unwritten rule of Twitter is that if someone follows you, you should follow them back. Now, that’s not always the case with celebrities and people like Bill Gates and Tony Robbins, but generally if you follow someone, they will follow you back within a few days.
You also need to keep your follow/follower ratio around 1.2. In other words you shouldn’t be following more than 120 people if you have 100 followers.
What TweetAdder does is it automates this process so you can go about your day doing other income producing activities, while TweetAdder adds to your followers every day. (It also unfollows people who don’t follow you back within a prescribed time)
At any rate, it’s a smart way to build a fan base, or list, of people that may be open to what you have to say.
One thing that is important as an aside, is to make sure you are sending out quality tweets to your audience on a regular basis.
One more thing… TweetAdder let’s you have multiple accounts. So you can set this up for multiple Twitter accounts, and away it goes!
Click here to try it out today!
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