A good twitter friend of mine Pokerstudent asked me really good questions about getting more followers on Twitter, as:

“whats the best way for me to get more followers buddy, do i just follow as many as i can or do i pay for one of those mass. Follower programs? i dont want to get my account suspended though.”

Here come my real life answers:

Personally, I was never for black hat type of marketing at all. I can share some steps I have done myself with my @sugardayfox account. Please note though that it is a personal account that I do not use for any focused marketing effort. of course I post affiliate links here and there but I am definitely using it as a personal account. I believe this is important when you look at the numbers and quality of my followers.

Here’s how I proceeded more or less to gather more and followers:

First, I followed people based on searches. Simple, but time and click consuming.

Second, I used a list of users who was told to follow back. It’s no longer online thus I don’t give you their link. It was really easy to follow them, but I’d stress how irrelevant they might be for a targeted effort.

Third, I used http://www.Flashtweet.com to mass follow people. But ONLY those following people I had ‘close’ relationship with or get to better know. Quite fast but not focused at all.

Fourth, I started to use http://mrtweet.net that gives a daily recommendation list for users to follow. They use an algorithm to recommend you people based on the followers you already have. I find it a great tool, only it take effort and clicks.

Fifth, I started to use Tweetdeck as a key element in viewing tweets and tweeting. Quite like the search function, the Lists function in Twitter make it a bit less outstanding but still fine, especially if you would have more than one Twitter accounts.

Sixth, I staterted to use Tweetlater (now Socialoomph) that helps you with automating follow backs and is a great tool for vetting followers, beside the obvious timed tweet dispatch function that is also cool.

Seventh, I am starting to use http://www.buzzom.com that is also a great management tool integrating some parts of the prior listed services.

I believe the rest should take care of itself with following the right people, retweeting occasionally, starting up conversations, putting up posts that gets easily retweeted. Note: I have yet to produce a blog post myself that gets retweeted. This means you can find any piece of information that might be important for your target audience, then make a tweet about it and there you go.

There was a great article that came into my mind and you might find it interesting from Chris Brogan. If I have forgot anything it is only because I am way too tired to think in a consistent manner.

Go tweet and conquer

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