Comments on: Digging Through The Trash for Twitter Stories

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:39:34 +0000

The best way to gain followers is to be a good one yourself. Follow a few dozen new random people a day and engage in conversations and start them yourself. I suggest using tweetdeck for this. At the end of the week you will have started building your inner circle of friends. Brad’s last blog post..KEXP Song of the Day - Week of March 2, 2009

By: Scripter

Scripter — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:17:28 +0000

i use twitter now for some weeks and i like it and i follow alot of people but the poeple doesn’t follow me so much, how much? you guys got any advice how i could get more follows.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:57:07 +0000

follow quite a few people when you are new and you will quickly find out who you want to keep following.

By: Lifestyler

Lifestyler — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:54:07 +0000

im new in twitter and follow most the links which are looking interesting, not so often the ones who followed me yet but maybe i should follow them more too.

By: brad

brad — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:50:40 +0000

If you don’t already use I highly recommend tweetdeck you can sort out all the people you follow, your replies and direct messages. You are right, there is some people who are interesting to follow even if they don’t follow in return and some I wouldn’t expect a follow from like news agencies, though for some reason cnn financial follows me. There are other people who you follow and don’t followback who are valuable to follow like Scoble, or Darren Rowse. As often as not replying to or rt their messages can get you some more interesting followers.

In the end you probably don’t have to worry about who is and isn’t following you back until you reach the following 2000 mark.

By: Sportfan

Sportfan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:17:22 +0000

first time i followed most link too but then it was getting to much and now i follow only people who followed me and the one who looks interesting.

By: Urlauber

Urlauber — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:24:39 +0000

i follow most times the peoples who followed me , its interesting to see who followed u but in the last time i dont follow so many who doesnt followed me.

By: Stephan Miller@Kansas City Web Developer

Stephan Miller@Kansas City Web Developer — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:55:10 +0000

It's a mess. I follow about 1000 people and haven't tried to clean it up yet. But I am a follower and followee, so I don't mind if some of the people that follow me don't return the favor. I usually check out the tweets first. But there was a time back there that I signed up for one service or another that automatically followed people without my knowledge, so there is still a mess. Stephan Miller’s last blog post..Beating the Hare or How Not to End Up in the Mental Ward

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:37:49 +0000

I’ve never really used twitter directories to attract followers and that might be why I took so long getting started with twitter. When i was first getting started I randomly followed people and then some people they were following, usually the ones with hot women icons. I still do this on occasion to attract new followers. For every 4 people I follow within a week I usually net 5 new followers for every two people who follow me back. Some of my best twitter friends are coming from from those secondary followers.

This method does cause a bit of problems if you don’t keep up on unfollowing unproductive people. I just ran into a new tool last night Friend or Follow that lets you check which of the people you follow aren’t following you back. I was amazed at how many people I have in my list that weren’t following me, nearly 20% Some were easy to understand like the news organizations etc, but later on I am going to make a serious attempt to weed out some of them.

http://friendorfollow.com/

By: Stephan Miller@Kansas City Web Developer

Stephan Miller@Kansas City Web Developer — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:40:34 +0000

I think the Twitter directories do help a bit. I notice a surge of new followers after each submission. When I was new to Twitter I used directories like that to find people to follow. Now I don’t do too much looking. I mainly follow people who have followed me, if they have valuable tweets.