11. Be a celebrity.

wow thats a excellent article on increase twitter users and becoming a Power twitter user :)
Follow me @ http://twitter.com/amitbhawani

I liked the #3 point for linking up your profile link from all the other possible ways to increase your followers count.

Good tips.

However, I wouldn’t use Qwitter (http://qwitter.com/) – it’s too frustrating. I suggest to use Tweeteffect Instead : http://www.tweeteffect.com/ which can teach a few things about your followers behavior.

I think twitpic is great but I’ve found 12seconds.tv is a great way to get more followers.

A few of mine:
11. Follow more people. Find someone that you like, @scobleizer for example, and follow who they are following. Go nuts, twitter lets you follow 2,000.
12. Ask questions. This is my favorite way to get to know people that are following me. Also, this makes your follow list more of a community.
13. Not to get followers, but use Cli.gs, it’s the best URL shortener because it has analytics.

Oh, and follow me, because I am awesome. twitter.com/alexwilhelm

This emphasis on followers will leave you unsatisfied. Why? You can’t control it. So, worry about what you CAN control: who you follow. Follow better people. Get better inputs! If you do that the followers will come and, guess what? They’ll be better followers too because you put the emphasis on what really matters. Who cares who is following you anyway? It only matters if they think you’re smart.

Oh, and Kevin missed a few ways to get followers:

1. Survive a plane crash and Tweet it.
2. Get arrested and tweet from jail.
3. Have sex with someone famous and tweet that.
4. Start a famous company. Profitability not required.
5. Have Leo Laporte mention you on his show (worked for my son).
6. Have Mike Arrington tell you you’re addicted (worked for me).
7. Unfollow all your followers. Follow them back. Block them. Then unfollow them. (Worked for Loren Feldman).
8. Get into a movie.
9. Direct a movie.
10. Take pictures with MC Hammer at a TechCrunch party.

Hope that helps. :-)

And the best way to get more followers is to publish a post on Techcrunch titled “10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers”. ;-)

Seriously; thanks for mentioning TwitterCounter! This weekend I experimented with localized Top 100′s. Select any Time Zone to see who is in the top 10.000 for that zone:

http://twittercounter.com/?inc=country

Feedback appreciated…

12. Have a guest post on TechCrunch

Try Twollo (http://www.twollo.com). This finds Tweeple tweeting about stuff you’re interested in and adds them to your follows automatically. By definition, a large chuck will follow you back.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz
@wecandobiz

Hadn’t heard of Retweetist before, thanks Kevin.

Follow me @ http://twitter.com/ianmikutel

Do you have a link to this story? I’m curious to learn more about it. Thanks

11.Stick to a topic and have a vision.
12.Create value for your followers. Provide useful info.
13.Respond to responses.

http://twitter.com/spraveenitpro
http://spraveenitpro.blogspot.com

Loren Feldman is an ass.

Great training for the whole community to become twitter spammers.

Actually, the link is http://twollow.com/ You forgot the last w.

Ask one of the most popular tweeterers to recommend people to follow you… follow me! http://www.twitter.com/globalresident

The only way you gonna have 88000 followers on twitter is by being “Kevin Rose” or if you were to create something better than digg!

I’m giving away *two* free MacBook Air’s. Follow me!

haha

(http://twitter.com/faramarzhashemi)

Kevin, I’m following you on Pownce.

I just discovered that Twitter is good solution for posting for job or work opportunities! In doing so you receive instant candidates (followers & non-followers) and you can instantly view portfolios. For me it beats posting on a job board!

What Twitter can be used for seems endless…. from a classify substitute to building your personal brand to receiving a notification that your wash is done and so on…

Ha, why take advice from a guy whose running a company into a ground? Wo cares how many followers you have if u cant monetize them

Yes, number 11 is also very helpful.

Got a long long way to go before @Admore is one of those :(

http://twitter.com/Admore

most important have a hot chick in your profile

Kevin Rose was already a name before Twitter because of Digg, etc. While he may be a perfectly interesting person, people aren’t following him because of these “tips”. I think these same tips have been blogged by any number of social media “gurus” or “consultants” trying to appear as though they’ve cracked the code of what makes 3,000 people follow one person, and not another.

And I think it actually comes down to 5 things (I’ll happily write a post about this, btw, Mike… just email me :-))

1. You were already famous/notorious.
2. You were involved in a major event that attracted internet/public interest.
3. You fought with someone (see 1 and 2)
4. You are pretending to be someone famous/notorious.
5. You do your best to be yourself, and share what you think and what you know, whether that is marketing or astrophysics or lipgloss.

5 is your best shot. Stop taking advice from famous people on how to be famous. Go invent something big. It worked for Kevin.

that does help.

Gotta love Internet popularity contests… it’s like high school part 4 or something (depending on how old you are.)

http://www.twitter.com/wei_yang

http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2009/1/21/what-is-rt%20retweeting.html – not working ?

Link should be -
http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2009/1/21/what-is-rt-retweeting.html

absolutely great post…dugg it ;)

Thanks a lot for the advice. Just got 166 followers, 87,834 followers left to go to be as cool as Kevin. I’d definitely appreciate all the help I can get!

Cheers!

http://twitter.com/joesunga

I will follow you

if you follow me.

9,000 + are following me so far.

I ask my followers to follow my followers -

this can bring you many more followers.

Join us & have more fun!

http://twitter.com/BongoBloggs

Why do you even think of monetization when all that you care is what you care about.

12. Making random speculations about Apple’s newest releases also helps with your blog or tweet content. (and increased follower count) =)

Kevin’s post, followed by Scoble’s comments reminded me of Bobby Fisher playing the Russian dude in chess. Or was it the computer?

Well, I definitely enjoyed vintage heavies weighing in on the same subject. With almost directly opposite points of view.

I’ll throw in a Number 11: study the ins and outs of Twitter and the related tools and really know before you go!

http://twitter.com/standubin

thanks for that, fixed.

This is just retarded. Narcissists exchanging tips with other narcissists on how to be more narcissistics?

FYI, qwitter.com doesn’t go to qwitter. It’s some guy’s blog (enjoying the traffic, I’m sure). The URL should be:
http://useqwitter.com/

Totally makes sense.

http://spraveenitpro.blogspot.com

Well at least Obama FOLLOWS PEOPLE BACK

This guy has almost 89000 people following and follows back less than 200. I guess he is a dictator and only his tweet matters. His friend
@tferriss follows NO ONE despite having 15000 followers. Sorry but these two are TWITTERDOUCHEBAGS

I am thankful, I have never been so stupid to hop on either these aholes twitter train. People are people, not sheep, bodies or statistics. Twitter is a social network not a SOLO network

it works either way as …when you have so many followers you bcome a twitter celeb , else as a celeb you attract all these followers.

http://spraveenitpro.blogspot.com

101. When you’re done with increasing your twitter followers to over 100,000, look at your non-existent off-Internet social life and search on TechCrunch – ’10 ways to get a life’

and None of these tips haven’t been repeated and told by the zillions of the so called Social Media Experts before!!!

http://spraveenitpro.blogspot.com

LMAO Robert that cracked me up! Esp. #7. I am still trying to figure out how that one would work LOL. More laughs and good times ahead :)

agreed 100%

and None of these tips haven’t been repeated and told by the zillions of the so called Social Media Experts before!!!

http://spraveenitpro.blogspot.com

One more for you 6. Tweetie ;)

What? It’s like millionaire would give us advice on how to earn $30 with lemon stand. I could sum this up in one sentence:

“Use Twitter, people will start follow you. Or, if you’re web 2.0 darling, people will follow you whatever you do.”

I salute you, Capitan Obvious.

Is this correct, “He is an investor in Twitter”? If so, why is he not listed in CrunchBase, and why was he involved with Pownce, but investing in twitter? Seems like a major conflict of interest – or is that why they finally pulled the plug on Pownce, he had an opp to invest in twitter?

Please clarify.

Pownce ??? that was closed. Wish Kevin had done a couple of posts on that also. Might have got them few users. Wonder why Kevin was promoting twitter over his own service

Forgot a “A” in Calacanis

“Bring your twitter account into the physical world. Every time I give a talk, speak on a panel, shoot a podcast, present slides, or hand out business cards, I figure out a way to broadcast or display my twitter account.”

Seriously? Must be a annoying guy to know. He’s unbearable on the net as it is.

Atleast Digg has some revenue even if it is losing money. But twitter has raised fresh money at absurd valuation without any revenue model. Recession . What recession ???

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Kevin,

Informational post on use of Twitter. I have still been trying to figure this tool out and manage all of these Tweets. I am getting closer with the help of people like yourself.

Thanks,
Ted
http://twitter.com/terribleted66

I think this 10 ways are a got starting point but most important you have to live what you are tweeting and people with the same interest will follow you

http://twitter.com/mayads

Great post from Kevin. I look forward to seeing more guest posts.

- Jon
http://www.heavybig.com
http://www.twitter.com/jonvictorino

Can this twitter hype die already?
All people want is to have followers to read about their boring everyday life.

This is one of the few hypes I just can’t seem to understand.

It’s one thing if you’re a celebrity – nut everyday people tweeting about how the new tp they just bought feels so soft on their butt – plain ridiculous.

you missed one:

be relevant.

Thanks Kevin for sharing your insights. And Robert’s comment cracked me up as clearly he didn’t use any of those techniques to get all his followers :)

As others have rightly pointed out, someone’s “accomplishments” outside of Twitter matters way more than what they “do” on Twitter unless Twitter is where they have their accomplishments.

A few questions to think about Twitter or any other social media involvement:

Social Media presence takes time, energy and probably will have an opportunity cost (you could be doing something else at the same time) so the #1 question is:

Why do you want to have a LOT of followers?

Hopefully the answer is that you will be able to give something “valuable” to the world and the marketplace.

So, the followup question is:

What do you have to share to the world and the marketplace that is “valuable?”

And the last question:

What are you doing today to ensure that you are building the credibility to share that “valuable” information?

Have a great week ahead all of you.

Best,
Rajesh

On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/UpbeatNow

#12. Increase your Twitter followers

by following BongoBloggs:

9,000 + are following BongoBloggs so far.

Bongo urges his followers to follow his followers

- that’s you!

this can bring you tons of followers.

Join BongoBloggs & have more fun!

click now:

http://twitter.com/BongoBloggs

I kinda disagree. I don’t thing you should expect or demand that the people who you choose to follow make the decision to follow you back.

See Jeremy Tanner’s post on the issue:

http://jeremytanner.com/you-owe-me-nothing-my-twitter-policy/

http://twitter.com/hutchins

Aim for becoming President of US seems to help too.

And Digg spammers at the same time!!

11. Spread the love in your home country which has not yet adopted twitter so wildly.

help me @ http://www.twitter.com/phlipster

This is fantastic information. Thanks again!

follow me @ http://twitter.com/badmacktuck

I’ve gained around 300 followers this month so far just by joining in with hashed conversations and retweeting.

Some great tips there, thanks Kevin.

LOL, I just tried #7 while watching cartoons on TV. As soon as I unfollowed the last person, spaghetti cat appeared! creepy.

People have strange goals:
Getting as much followers as possible on Twitter.

What or where is the benefit?
Wondering what the ROI is?

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guess that is the perspective you see it from, but there is another dimension, yeah they are some people who use it for some really absurd things like rss feeds for their blogs, or how their cat felt ill, etc. guess you just havent watched the video that describes how to use twitter to make profitable connections. you should watch it :http://tinyurl.com/bmpg77 totally think your idea of twitter would change:

Twitter Rock Stars…..how much “true” interaction is there with that setting? I think the word social just gets blown out of the term “social media” with that.

http://www.southplattewebdesign.com/2009/01/26/a-twitter-rock-concert/

#7 works because one thing Twitter users really care about is how many followers they have. So, when someone follows them, or blocks them, or unfollows them, it catches their attention. Also, any time you follow someone it sends them an email. I just followed a whole bunch of people and you should see all the Tweets saying “thank you for following me.” That got me even more followers.

It’s a really lame game, though. I laughed when I saw what Loren was doing and what reactions everyone was having.

It’s why I just worry about the inputs into my life and try to get interesting conversations with interesting people. That’s all I can control and, anyway, it is a lot more satisfying to do that then worry about who is following or blocking.

i think one of the most important point to note that was left out is be relevant and add value to the lives of the people following you. Encourage them to do the same to others not necessarily for monetary value.
http://elnatobi.blogspot.com
follow me on twitter http://www.twitter.com/elnatobi

You’re a great guy, Kevin :)

@ http://twitter.com/esotericsean

Good

Well said!

And may I add No. 6 to you list …

6. Get a life and stop worrying about how many ‘followers’ you have.

@jasoncalcanis is not the same as @jasoncalacanis

People like to compete for top places on a list everywhere you go. I won’t say I don’t care about the number of followers cause I’ll be lying to myself. You hear that’s good, you see celebrities or similar being followed by say 20000 followers and you wonder what if. Now, there’s the other part. Can I handle all of them? What do I have to give them? You can have thousands of spammers following you or the most boring people in the world and that does not make you a reference on the web. So whenever my stupid pride tells me I should have more and more followers just because it must be good, I tell to myself to have some more control and not get too addicted to it, cause I might get an overdose of silly extra work to do daily, disappointment for having to deal with people I don’t like, anxiety for not having more followers than say Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble or Jason Calacanis just mention some. Summing up, I think a modest amount of followers you make little by little, according to your possibilities and what you can offer to the world is much more realistic and leaves more time for other important stuff. By the way thanks to Orly for that link she suggested. I agree with her Qwitter is not working as it should.

fantastic tips. with the popularity of twitter growing by the day, I’m seeing more and more spam coming through. http://twitter.com/jamesosullivan

follow me @ http://twitter.com/crimecorp

Is it rude not to follow someone back because they’re boring?

Also, being hot helps. I’m sure there’s more than a few people who watch Diggnation on mute just to look at Kevin…

As far as Twitter goes, the “be a celebrity” tip is the *only* thing that matters, and is the reason why people like Kevin will never actually “get” what Twitter is like for the average person.

If you’re not trying to promote yourself and don’t have a ton of real-life friends on Twitter then it quickly becomes nothing more than a sea of mindless drivel from wannabe-celebs and “fans” who are just trying to impress them.

For the average person there is still no benefit at all to Twitter, but the people that write about it can never actually see that as they tend to already have their own band of followers.

For Kevin Rose to really understand Twitter, he should set up a fake account as a “normal” person and never mention his real identity… I’d bet he would soon get very bored of the total lack of worship… sorry, followers.

Hald of tweeter never retweet so it’s very Important that we explain them what is retweet.
http://twitter.com/shoutmeloud

What’s an MC Hammer? Is that a tool?

http://www.twitter.com/bigjohn

running a contest needs money in almost, if not, all cases. anyway, other tips are helpful. thanks.

Please don’t beg for followers folks, you are better than that. Seriously.

Interesting article. Has to use the re-tweets more often

http://twitter.com/hakandahlstrom

to increase your twitter followers, it is always important to have interesting topics and you must be knowledgeable of what you are doing and do a lot of researching.

What are some good ways to integrate Twitter into a wordpress blog to have a community around your work?

Thanks!!!

http://www.atomicsub.net

http://twitter.com/zafarali
put it everwhere :p

Hmmmm. Interesting.. which one is the “Real” one??

Twollow.com or Twollo.com both have a site. Guys?

LOL, u’re right, i’m the only blogger cares about making $, probly why i’m the best at it, especially considering how few followers i have…dont worry little hippies, u’ll all be employed by me in the future

Adding a dash of humor and not taking yourself too seriously helps as well.

Be an expert in your chosen topic field, but don’t forget to listen as well.

11. Create a Twitter tool that will capture peoples’ attention and ask them to follow you.

Yea… Being a celeb doesnt hurt.. but just being yourself brings followers that actually care about what you are saying…

http://twitter.com/DanielEgan

Oh Yea.. hadnt heard of retweet before either… I Love API’s :)

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Awesome tips – I’ll definitely be taking most of them into account and acting on them.

One thing I hardly read about with Twitter tips is getting a following of targeted niche followers. I understand having 22, 000 followers is great but what about 1, 000 targeted followers?

For example, if you blog and tweet about gardening, you’d want as many followers who are interested in gardening right ? But I guess you’d have to block followers to target your niche follower which is really hard to do haha almost seems rude!

Anyways, if anyone loves web design, site flipping and wordpress then follow me :)

http://www.twitter.com/wynterjones

Shameless promotion.

Hehe yes definitely! In Kevin Rose’s situation being a celebrity helps a lot.

For “normal” people it is harder to do it, but it is still possible to build a good Twitter following.

Follow people, be interesting, tweet helpful resources, answer to people’s questions, do twitter-bait and get famous twitterers to respond back to you…

I have collected these and other tips at http://www.twittermarketingbook.com

Good advice! Stalk me on Twitter http://twitter.com/_naz

This is another case of people desperately trying to interact with or make money from social media.

If you are on twitter to interact with your friends (real friends) then who cares how many followers you have if you only want to use the site to say where you are going for a coffee and other updates of that kind.

However if you are on twitter to market yourself or your company then stick to the point of having tweets which are interesting and of some value to your readers. Don’t expect people to follow you for the sake of following you because it harks back to the early days of social networking and who has the biggest friends list. If these ‘followers’ don’t care about your or your company then how valuable are they!

http://twitter.com/robert_mattar

Why?

What possible use does an army of followers have unless it’s commerical … and if it’s commercial it’s not really in the spirit of Twitter anyway.

If you still need to make up for lack of popularity at school join myspace.

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Free advertising goes a long way for Kevin, especially being #2 behind President Obama.

Digg users are likely to have a Twitter account, mainly because the market is the similar and compliments current tech culture.

Great tips, and kudos for Twitter for having top users like Rose and Scoble weigh in on tips to increase followers.

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He is using the site as intended, only following people he is interested in. People following thousands of people they have no interest in just to get followed back makes the whole thing pointless and also causing stress on the twitter servers for no reason.

cheers for that… you must have picked up a fair few from this blog… do you think its fair to have so many folowers and follow so few people??

NE who heres my twitter….

http://twitter.com/trcwest/

Site http://trcwest.com

photoblog http://timwest.info

twitter me {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/lXpIFZyfeE_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”twitter me ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/OCm4HyRp9M”}}}

Have always wondered that myself; diggnation, twitter and his blog, almost never plugged his pownce account (at least over twitter). Leah Culver must be pissed….

Impressive tips from the handsome Digg founder!

Ah!! These are the REAL things one should do. Kevin’s points are so old hat :D

P.S. I still think #6 was a set up between you and Arrington (may be because Arrington had no news on twitter to post that day) :-)

Having 88,000 followers on Twitter does it means you are a better person now ?

NO it means being a Geek with no life followed by 88,000 other Geeks.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

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thanks alot for the tips, they are really useful, i’m gonna get a camera phone pretty soon, so that i can start posting pics on twitter, i love photography, and i have been waiting on it for a long time, i know its a great idea , and a great way to let people see and appreciate your photography, i think this is great for any artist, Twitter is just awesome, it ROCKS…!

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Great list Kevin – Thanks for the tips.

You can follow me @ http://twitter.com/jjbuss

Thanks a lot for this post. Learned quiet a bit about retweeting and #hash.

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5. Only follow dogs
6. Post at 10 TPM (tweets per minute)
7. Start an argument with a twitter ‘celebrity’
8. Tweet about watering the plants
9. Show antipathy towards dominant political discourses
10. Say “what’s a hashtag?”
11. (Bonus!) Tweet about the new 90210

Follow me on @LondonTheatre (well of course…)

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Thanks for the tips .

I suggest using tr.im as shortening service. The stats are great, you even get to segment your clickers geographically and chronologically.

Great for analysing the traffic you can push and how interested your followers are in your links.

Otherwise: great tips. I wouldn’t go for the plane crash option though. That strategy could go catastrophically wrong…

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Get scobleized. Gott me over 150 new followers ;)

stop leaving anonymous comments, Kevin.

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Superb tips, thanks for sharing. I have friendfeed – feed into twitter so all my Rediit, Stumble Upon and Digg likes get updated on Twitter.

Born4thesurf
http://twitter.com/born4thesurf

Great tips, but I don’t think my followers count will grow as Kevin Rose. :D

http://twitter.com/joffrey

So I won’t be following these tips…. I completely disagree with collecting followers to boost my ego. I’m in it for the conversation!

LOL, that whole Twitter thing is pretty cool!

RT
http://www.total-privacy.us.tc

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That’s the most ridiculous way I have ever seen to try and entice people to follow you.

http://www.twitter.com/ihany

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#11 should be: Make meaningless comments on Techcrunch with your Twitter name listed :)

http://www.twitter.com/twittacause

Interesting read! I just tried some of the tips mentioned in the post and I’m already seeing some followers added. Some of them are just bots but hopefully people should follow back.

Thanks Kevin for sharing these useful tips.

This is a great article title. Unfortunately, it is written by the wrong person.

It should have been written by a previously obscure individual who suddenly manage to become one of the leading personalities on twiiter.

Unfortunatey, by having Kevin Rose give his “secrets”, Techcrunch is confounding cause and effect. Kevin Rose did not become one of the top personalities on Twitter because he filled out his bio (secret #2) any more than Obama became the top personality on twitter because he filled out his bio.

This is like all of the silly Newsweek articles that talked about Google’s secret to success being the foozball tables that they offered to their employees. Once again, confusing cause and effect.

Anjali Sen

http://smartbabesaresexy.blogspot.com

Kevin makes some reasonably helpful points but yeah he would still be like everyone if wasn’t an internet celebrity.

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Second most followed Twitter user can’t sa anything wrong ,all are great twitter tips for sure
follow me on twitter
http://twitter.com/saicomputers

Great tips. Although I believe in leaving things to nature – if you build it, they will come.

I’d rather have quality over quantity!

http://twitter.com/o6uoq/

Kevin, I appreciate what you have done and what you continue to do.

Your work inspires me to keep on keeping on.

Thanks for the twitter advice.

Carlos Aponte Jr
http://twitter.carlosapontejr

It was not explained why it is good if one has lots of followers.

Twitter is phenomenal. Great tips and yes numbers doesnt really say much, it’s the quality of followers you have and the value you give to your followers.

http://twitter.com/graphire
http://www.thewealthysoul.com

Great article. There are some resources on here that are new to me. This should help out. Thanks

<a href-”http://twitter.com/the_gman

Thanks for the tips, should indeed learn to use the #haches – since I’m mainly in on bringing all #Tolkien related news. A give away contest sounds great – if I give away a Deluxe Tolkien book I will attract a specific group of people…

I think it is most important to have followers who are actually interested my the topic I twitter about, and not just ‘large’ numbers…

follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TolkienLibrary

Save Twitter, save the world.

http://www.twitter.com/chriswallace

thanks orli for sharing tweeteffect. it seems helpful but seems to provide conflicting results with qwitter

I like the idea of spreading around photos. People enjoy photos a lot.

What? People still use Twitter? That is so 2008.

How so?

#13

Have LOTS of free time!

http://www.twitter.com/ninjachad

hellow

Wow, this is terrible.

How about idea #1. Have something interesting to say and be valuable. Worrying about how many followers you have just exposes you as a shallow individual in need of some superficial ego stroking.

This infatuation with trying to get followers for the sake of followers is worse than the worse of high school cliques. Honestly people…

This is the kind of crap that will be the death of Twitter (and maybe already is). It perpetuates the echo chamber of people talking about themselves to each other. Absurd. And silly…

And, I’m not putting my twitter handle here because, frankly, I’d rather not be followed by anyone here who is interested in how many people follow them… stupid

@Orli

I don’t think tweeteffect is very accurate…

“In the last 187 updates you had no changes in your follower numbers. Loyal readers, you have. ”

Since I’ve only done 187 updates in total that would mean that no one has ever un-followed me, which is highly un-likely…

http://www.twitter.com/ninjachad

Great post Kevin and I mirror your way of doing things. There’s also a lot more to be said about conversations on Twitter and when and when not to reply to things that you didn’t cover. I’ve been on Twitter for 1 year and 10 months now. I joined March 21st, 2007 and have nearly 2 thousand followers.

The thing to realize is that I joined Twitter as a nobody and moved to San Francisco as a nobody and now my Twitter influence is very high even with 2K followers. It’s very scientific how I act on Twitter and converse with others and you didn’t mention that. Be too chatty and you’ll lose followers, it’s a fact or your avatar will be passed over when one of your followers reads the stream and your constant replies just become background noise. I’m not saying you do that but a lot of users do.

I’m @adamjackson on Twitter and have almost hit 35K tweets. I’m happy with my Twitter progress and have used it for everything from finding directions, raising money for charity, selling my furniture when I moved to SF, finding places to rent and finding jobs. It’s an exceptional tool and 2K followers is all I need to change the world.

http://twitter.com/adamjackson
Here’s a post I did on Brian Solis’ blog about conversations on Twitter.

http://bub.blicio.us/twitter-mastering-the-conversation-an-excerpt/

Look at the last sentence of the first paragraph. Explains everything. He never promoted Pownce like he did Twitter.

And Leah’s not pissed. She sold the technology and got a job at SixApart – why would she be upset?

What about getting a real life?
Come on, do you really need thousands of followers? or do you need to think that people listen to you?

I think you’ve finally written something I can like.

Yes, but what about all the twindustries I twollow? Will I be able to find good source of twoney to spend on twoducts for my twome? Twadvertising is also another biggie (or “twiggie,” as the hipsters are saying these days). Twads and twommercials are absolutely critical for success, and I don’t know how any twisiness can expect to twurvive in this tweconomic twownturn without them.

wtf is twitter?

Was it Clay Shirky who said that (paraphrasing) spammability is the true test of viability for new technologies?

totally agree with Robert, it doesn’t matter how many people are following you, what matters is that you are following interesting people and tapping into their intelligent comments.

Although I thank Mr. Rose for his insight (and do follow him) I think the comment made by many above that someone that started at zero and worked themselves into a nice following without being famous in some way or another would be more insightful. I think these tips are basic… and rather useless. Then again, I guess that is if one cares about followers. I tend to be more interested in content and most of the big names are frankly not very interesting and lend virtually nothing to my twitter stream.

self promotion: I did have moderate success on my blog with this post: http://drunkenhopfrog.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/follow-me-follow-you/ | which has some relationship to this.

Also:
http://www.twitter.com/gdcooper

#15 Start a competitor service then completely abandon it for the competitor leaving a decent sized community of loyal fans royally pissed off.

Long live Pownce!

Kevin Rose – FAIL (sell, sell, sell)

C’mon guys, keep going. I love to see a battle of wits filtered through TXT syntax and English as a second language.

Hell, I don’t even use the thing and I have a shitload of followers.

THANKX FOR THE ADD!!!1

Kevin,

I hear you. There are a nuber of people that add people with the expectaion that they will be added in return. This is a bad strategy. Followers added this way would not respond in the same way as followers that added you because they thought you added value to the conversatio.

Remember, be yourself, Keep it real and realize that anything worthwhile takes time.

I’m leaning more in the BPD direction.

I’m guessing your URL gets mistyped a whole lot.

I disagree with you Dom. While at first I didn’t understand why people would care what I was doing, I found that Twitter was so much more useful to observe what others were doing. I’ve gotten tips on some of the best books and movies because of Twitter and now I’m truly glad that I am part of the social network. I contribute as much as I can when relevant.

That being said, http://www.twitter.com/phlacin

Photo Credit: Brian Solis, http://is.gd/hh43

:)

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Mr. Rose:

Home Depot lays off 7,000. Catepiller plans on laying off 20,000 and YOU write an article on how to increase Twitter personal followers?

Question: Are you a freakin’ idiot?

Do you have any idea what’s going on the US? Do you even care? My guess: you’re some rich kid who never worked a hard day in his life. You are not connected with the REAL America.

Just like Arrington.

Pathetic.

Maybe 10 tips for improving your quality of life would also be helpful http://www.farmfed.com/2009/01/10-ways-to-increase-your-quality-of-life-and-maybe-your-twitter-followers/

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Ha. This is the antidote to my desire to be able to HIDE my follower stats from my Twitter page.

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Interesting question, though:

Do you Tweet about your personal stuff or your business life? I find that few people probably want to hear about the life and times of my writing business, but more seem to be interested in my existential crisis over artificial bacon bits…

I agree it’s a lot easier to gain multiple followers if you’re a celebrity, even if it’s a Web celebrity.

Feel free to follow me if you like NBA and smartphones. http://twitter.com/marinperez

A few point are irrevelant to a “non-celebrity” twitter user. Here are my thoughts about increasing your twitter count : http://www.theindicast.com/writestuff/technology/how-to-increase-your-twitter-followers/

if you like it, follow me up on http://www.twitter.com/acmhatre

Guys spaming their twitter account in comments = retardeds looking for notoriety.

Awesome post – thanks Kevin!

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The funny thing is that nobody is reading each other comment, but everybody’s hope is that someone will read, click and follow…

You’re just a bunch of losers lost in the self-promotion internet black hole.

Pathetic.

Great post,

Lets see if it works.

http://twitter.com/ScottShockey

LOL, If you’re spamming your website and mistype the url. Here’s your sign.

I knew some of the points. Some are completely new for me.. thanks for sharing

Great tips, and ditto to those who mentioned that it doesn’t hurt to be a celebrity.

http://twitter.com/aargenz1
http://www.ilogon.com

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Great post. I used to feel not okay putting http://twitter.com/barce into my official McCann Erickson emails, but after reading this I don’t have that problem now.

Questions:

1) I noticed that a few co-workers don’t follow me, but I follow them. Awkward, yes? Do I continue to follow them? Un-follow them?

2) It’s pretty hard to define what a quality follow is. My question is almost like: How do I find the cool people that I want to follow? How do I have them follow me back?

Nice call on the twitter spamming.

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Great tips. Not everyone can afford to give away a Macbook Air, though. I do recommend following others, participating and responding to those you are following, and building links to your Twitter account.

Kevin Rose is a twitter snob.. He has over 89K followers and he is only following 147 people!! He is like slamming the party door on guests!!!
this video by @perrybelcher explains it well.

http://www.twitter.com/akmalwardak

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ooops forgot the video link. here it is:

Definitely a nifty article. For those fans who always wonder WWKRD, these are the tips to success.

http://www.twitter.com/jacobwilliams

Thanks for the words and recommendations Kev.

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Thanks Kevin for the tips!

Long Live the Tweeters!

twitter.com/Joseph_KHC

I will buy everyone who helps me reach 50,000 followers by April Fools day a beer and a hotdog!

http://www.twitter.com/ferminsuero

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I agree, something’s off with tweeteffect… it’s telling me in my last 199 posts I’ve lost more followers than gained. Based on my growth of followers that can’t be accurate. I like the concept though.

http://twitter.com/sarahlane

put the wrong twitter profile for Jason, http://twitter.com/jasoncalacanis correct one

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I cannot believe this is considered journalism now. This ranks with Top 10 tips on how to pick your nose.

Haven’t heard of it either, but will apply it. I just signed up for Qwitter. It’s like an instant critic ; )

I agree with the original post but I don’t think Kevin has a concept of what twitter is about judging by the small amount of people he follows. Even famous people like MC Hammer will follow you back & talk to you.
The only people I don’t follow are the obvious spammers.
As for the people who say twitter is useless for the little guy…NOT TRUE. I’m not spamming my biz but just having it in the bio, has brought me loads of customers. And I get more people coming from twitter reading my blog, than I do from google.
Also working from home and not seeing alot of people, it’s just nice to interact with others.
I LOVE twitter.
Feel free to follow & unlike Kevin, I’ll follow back:
http://twitter.com/CathyBend

Haven’t heard of it either, but will apply it. I just signed up for Qwitter. It’s like an instant critic ; )

http://www.twitter.com/JennyDiDonato

Thanks for this useful guide, i might wanna try one of your tips here

But the most obvious ways was the no. 7. People just like contest :)

I disagree with some of these tips. If you create original and compelling content you will find your twitter followers to increase. If you do get people to follow you because of a publicity stunt you will not be able to keep them. Create something amazing and stop worrying about if people are following you or not!

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I spoted a mistake. A typo at Jason Calacanis twitter account :) congratulate me with a follow on twitter :D http://twitter.com/vladgidea

@Akmal Why should people be expected to follow everyone that follows them? Would you really want to weed through a feed of 89k user’s tweets? Follow the people that interest you.

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New Here.. thanks for the great tips!

Nice tips. Thanks

Try socialtoo.com instead of qwitter. Socialtoo tells you who followed you AND who unfollowed you.

are we that pathetic of a species that it should matter how many followers we have?

If you are just out to get as many followers as possible then you are what is called a “social media whore” and this is not a good thing.

Carlos above is spot on..have fun with it don’t make it a basis for how arrogant you are

Kevin,

I learned some new stuff in there thanks for that. Seems the more I get into Twitter and grow my fmassive ollowing there’s always something else that makes it a little better :-)

I’ve put up a free video for all my followers today called “Dominating Twitter”. It’s a tutorial about how to build up your followers in super quick time and keep them loyal and happy.

http://tinyurl.com/av44pe

Garry Parkes
http://twitter.com/garryparkes

Very nice Twitter write-up with good resources. Thank you Kevin. Dulcita Love @dulcitalove

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#11 start a Jason Calacanis poser account and have Kevin rose point people to it in a Tech Crunch article.

Or just point out an error on the article that Kevin Rose authored on TC by leaving a comment and put your Twitter signature below the comment…For example:

http://twitter.com/stevekrause

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The only thing compelling about your comment is that you disagree with Kevin Rose on how to get Twitter followers.

Kevin Rose= 88,331 followers
You= a lot less

Sorry, but isn’t it *the number of* followers you want to increase, rather than the followers themselves? Should I hope that my few followers will become more fat and scant of breath?

Don’t follow me!

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It’s simple really. Add value and show you care about what others think.

-be interesting
-share what you’re thinking
-share useful links

_don’t be a shill(ie, promoter)
-don’t just broadcast – Interact
-don’t tweet ‘What you’re doing’

For the last one seriously. No one gives a rat’s ass except your mother.

Why would I want people to follow my every SMS? *shrug*

Attention whores.

Kevin,
Would love to her your thoughts on following people back. Yes it would be easier if twitter had groups.
But i think your twitter experience would be greatly more beneficial if you followed your followers back.

Here is my reasoning. We follow everyone back that follows us. Here is why. I feel if they are going to take the time to follow us to hear what we are saying, i feel it’s only right to follow them back to take the time to hear what they are saying.

Other wise there is no way for them to DM us and it is a one way conversation.

So i think another # you should add above to increase your twitter followers is to follow back.

We are on twitter to be open, honest, transparent and to connect and help. Or lives have been enriched because we follow back and can connect directly with out followers. We have helped them and more so they have helped us.

I just view no following as one more barrier, but truly transparent. Like keeping yourself at arms reach. Because many times people would rather private DM something versus public tweet something.

Hope my thoughts help.
-Adam, Wendy & Lola (WOOF WOOF)
Bark back sometime.
http://twitter.com/pawluxury
We’ll follow back & Look forward to connecting!

agree, if you can implement this, you’ll need “10 ways to save your REAL life” hahaha

helpful. thx.

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Thanks for info Kevin..very useful tips..

http://twitter.com/yusa95

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BS. What’s the point in having thousands of followers? Why the hell do I need it? Who is Kevin Rose? Why on Earth do I need to follow his meals, bath, sex, etc? There are lots of internet perversions, twitteromania is definitely one of those. Seriously, folks.

Thank You very much.

Just follow @ http://www.twitter.com/wollmilchsau :-)

Thank You very much.

Just follow me @ http://www.twitter.com/wollmilchsau :-)

laksdjflaskjdfa

some good tips he provided, i think ill take some measures to apply what he wrote

http://www.twitter.com/jiggystudio

Thanx a lot for the tips. Would definitely try them out.

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Interesting discussion here. I find it interesting when people who have a platform give advice to people who do not. It comes down to you need to establish a large platform (sorry, I don’t really know how to do this…or I would have one :))

Much of Twitter is just noise. But sprinkled between the noise is the occasional oratory and an overly outstanding opus. I have had my personal success on Twitter not from the number of followers, but from making real connections with people that lead off of Twitter and into other mediums and the real world.

Keep it real and look for ways to help others and say something once in awhile that is useful and they will follow. But the number of followers means nothing if those that follow do not care. I would rather have 100 followers where I have a mutually beneficial relationship than 10,000 who don’t give a sh*t.

These are all great tips. Thanks for sparking our minds.

@Trigeia

http://www.TrigeiaBlog.com

Whats Your Passion ?

I’d rather hear 10 ways this crap will make money instead of increasing the size of my would be stalkers…

12. Come up with the 10 ways to increase your followers by researching them on the internet, write an article about it and post it on Techcrunch! Whats that, 2,000+ more followers already?

Since everybody else is doing it, might as well jump on the bandwagon! ;)

Follow me @ http://twitter.com/neek

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I know nothing about Rose except for his companies… and I really dont care to find out his rags to riches story (if), but come on…

If an idiot own/created digg… I don’t know what you measure smart against.

If you cant work hard, work smart.

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REAL celebrities don’t use Twitter to remind them they are famous, they have movie premieres, TMZ and the Jay Leno Show for that.

I’m still waiting to see when Twitter starts a business class service or begins to sell it’s user list. Then we’ll start seeing a load direct messages greeting us when we check our Twitter account.

http://www.twitter.com/gizmotastic

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10 ways? How about 100 ways? 100 Twitter Tips and Secrets to help you build not only followers, but more importantly “listeners.”

http://twittinsecrets.com

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The @KevinRose Experiment on Increasing Your Twitter Following has begun. Testing tip #7 at http://tinyurl.com/bg5r9k

11. get an @reply from @kevinrose

12. be followed by @kevinrose

Thanks for your advices. Love you, man.

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Is there an optimum number of twitter followers ie too many and there’s so much noise you miss the good stuff – or is it all about bums on seats – the more the merrier. I am quite happy with my few hundred which give me basically what I want – or should I get more, filter them more effectively – and feel the warm wave of tweets washing over me.

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Qwitter is/was a great service, though painful when the unfollow is someone you know. It wasn’t always accurate, though, and hasn’t sent me any email since Nov 30.

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Yeh being a celebrity really helps!!

Something nice if your popular and have many followers.Congrats great job man

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Haven’t really used twitter too much so far, some good tips though.

http://twitter.com/scottgmorgan

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Kevin has obviously mastered the art of the profitless trophy prize.

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The real power of Twitter is not in how many people are following you, but how many quality and inspiring people you are following.

Building a quality following takes time, the only way to do it properly is to be yourself, engage in conversation with others, and add value to the people who are following you.

Share great links and your own thoughts on the world and you will be respected.

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Dear @KevinRose,
There is another point you didn’t mention. You didn’t say about following people who follow you. I believe that one aspect of Twitter is the conversation. If I see someone who has far more followers than friends, I will not follow them on principal, because I feel they will ignore me. Nobody likes to be ignored ;-)

For anyone who agrees with this sentiment, follow me, I’m @davidgilson, I’ll follow you back.

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KR is a twat! He has less sense than a hollow pumpkin! What hes trying to do is create an army of blind mice leading each other to one big cows moos.
Following others without checking to see what their post history is like is very foolish. so is re-tweeting links to people when you all have a lot of the same friends.people who have more than 1000 followers and follow that many people can’t honestly make sense of the information they get.
twitter has yet to make it easier to filter out tweet into groups like friendfeed allows one to do.

Some of these tips are valid – things like, including your Twitter name in the “real world” and filling out your bio with your interests so people searching can find you. But, I am forced to agree with those who say that Kevin was a “celebrity” before Twitter and that is really what is responsible for his mass number of followers.

I take more exception though with the premise. Increase your twitter followers? Ask yourself why? What does Kevin really get from his 91,000 followers aside from ego boost? Same with Calacanis, etc. Great, you offered a contest and got a bunch of people to follow you who don’t read what you write. Congrats!

At a certain point you can do nothing (not even visit Twitter, much less post to it) and get new followers. I get 10-15 a day and haven’t taken part in a meaningful conversation there in a month.

Honest question – if Twitter charged you a buck a month to follow Kevin Rose, would you?

Agreed Eden!

CoolestJobsOnline
http://tinyurl.com/7uj5ay

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links for 2009-01-28…

Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers

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Great article. I am new to the hashing techniques, and will definitely look into them.

http://twitter.com/tarikpierce

11. “Write a post about how to increase your Twitter influence”

I’ll join the ~ 300 comments before me and echo: great post Kevin. How are you going to make Digg more ‘social’ in 2009?

http://twitter.com/ediggs or @ediggs
Early stage start ups and venture capital with a spotlight on Israel

[...] 4.    Phase: Kooperation -    Die Verbreitung der eigenen Inhalte im Internet wird nicht mehr behindert – stattdessen wurde der Wert der Verbreitung der Inhalte (=Reichweite!) erkannt und dies wird mit den „Mitteln des Internets“ sogar noch zusätzlich befördert. -     Beispiel: der eingangs erwähnte Fernsehsender CNN kooperiert mit Facebook.com, um seinen Zuschauern die Möglichkeit zu geben sich über die Inauguration Obamas zu unterhalten und gleichzeitig die Facebook-Freunde der Zuschauer über die Existenz der Sendung zu informieren. Möglich geworden sind diese Formen der Zusammenarbeit auch erst durch die Öffnung der sozialen Netzwerke für externe Anwendungen und Seiten. So hat Facebook erst Ende 2008 „Facebook Connect“ die technische und rechtliche Grundlage dafür geschaffen. -    Beispiel: Erlauben das „embedden“ von eigenen Content in fremden Angeboten – der Hulu.com-Stream der Inauguration von Barrak Obama konnte in jedes beliebige Internetseite embedded werden. -    Kooperation mit dem Zuschauer: Nutzung und Ermunterung von Bürgerreportern via Twitter und Nutzung neuer Live-Bilder über Qik.com, Kyte.com und weiteren Anbietern. Die ersten Reaktionen vom Absturz des Flugzeugs in den Hundson River in New York kamen z.B. über den Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter.com und erreichen damit auch ohne die klassischen Medien bereits eine Reichweite über 350.000 Views. [...]

Check this, it seems there are more hidden images in the paintings of Leonardo LINK

[...] (besser als verfolgte) Twitterer Kevin Rose gibt dazu auf Techcrunch die 10 besten Tipps: Ten Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers. Ich lese, lerne und versuche zu [...]

Wow! I never had an idea how powerful this system was before. Thank you for the great tips! I plan to try all of these and increase my traffic.

Thank you Kevin!
Tim Simonelli
http://twitter.com/Tim_Simonelli
http://www.sylvanlakeleisure.com/blog

How do Twitter referrals post in an analytics report, say from the traffic sources section?

I have yet to see anything that says “twitter” in there.

kevin missed a point. Here is how it works.

1. First become a celebrity
2. Follow Kevin’s 10 things

it is really true… be a celebrity and everything will be ok…

I’d have to disagree to some extent, because I see people all of the time with thousands, if not 5k-15k followers, who don’t appear to be particularly famous (even in say Internet Marketing or similar insider circles).

What they do appear to share in common though are two things:

1) They follow back nearly everyone that followed them (auto or not doesn’t much matter), which would seem to make sense in what is supposed to be a social context. The celebrities of various types can afford to some extent to shut people out, but then you have to ask yourself how well they’re doing if John Doe can amass 15k followers as well.

2) They engage in a massive number of conversations, nearly as many as Scoble (Kevin Rose is a status update slacker by comparison, @scobleizer beats him 10x).

1) and 2) taken together maximize the network effects, as someone else’s followers can only see your twitter username/link if that someone else @replies to you or otherwise mentions your name as an @ (almost no one has the time or nerve to flip through someone’s follower/following pages to pick out people, the only other way they could have found you).

So, all of Kevin’s suggestions are useful, but they do not even begin to go to the heart of the social phenomenon that is Twitter. They are handy add-ons.

Follow me on Twitter, I follow back:
Twitter.com/AlexSchleber

It’s about the conversations. The social context of all social media like Twitter makes it so that very little one-way broadcast/”megaphone” communication is tolerated.

And don’t try to sell ANYTHING to your first level friends/followers/etc., it tends to be perceived as a violation of social trust. That can happen eventually from the downstream network effects.

@tobi, for those same reasons I disagree to some extent with the tenor of the video you linked to, instead check out Perry Belcher’s take (admittedly more folksy than I would usually put it, but very true nonetheless): http://3on.us/social-money

Follow me and I’ll follow you and then your followers can…..One big ponzi scheme with the hopes of getting fools to eventually pay for advertising.

What a bunch of crap.

How much does techcrunch and its owners have in Twitter? This coverage is getting ridiculous.

OK, timeout… you have twice as many updates (tweets) as @scobleizer (35,000!), yet only 2,000 followers to show for it? That would appear to be a feat in itself.

Not to be rude, but I am not sure if that truly makes you a “social media expert”. If you quickly do the math, assuming a steady increase in followers and updates, you have had so far a potential for 35,000 x 1,000 (average followers over time, prob a bit skewed) = 350,000 connection points (and the potential network effects that follow from those).

Scoble with his 50k+ followers needs to send only 7 updates to get the same! I am not saying you need to be Scoble, but having more followers is obviously useful for overall reach.

My guess is that the fact that you’re only following about 1/4 of your followers back may have something to do with the low expansion per update rate. Otherwise, even if you’re tweets were only 1/10 as useful/viral as Scoble’s, you should have 10,000 followers. Dig?

Follow me on Twitter, I follow back:
Twitter.com/AlexSchleber

Oh…who cares. The only people who endlessly follow so called stars are mindless sheep. These “tips” are just rehashed plagiarized drivel already written on a thousand other sites. Write something everybody on earth doesn’t know already. A man should not be judged by how many followers he has. I would be embarrassed to brag about that.

@Ryan – no offense ya? But there’s no reason for this “quality followers” sour-graping. Sure, sort out the true riff-raff/spam, but otherwise, how do you know what someone might have to say/contribute usefully down the road.

The only reason why people are afraid of more followers is if they think that by following them all back they’ll overload themselves with an onslaught of information. Which they will, as long as they still believe in the fairy-tale of being able to control their Twitter stream without an automatic filtering mechanism.

Good luck, even with just 50 active followers, you’ll be overloaded unless you figure out how to manage/filter it.

Increase reach, fine-tune filter…

@thom, you can already have those 100 tight relationships elsewhere, even closer, e.g. on Facebook.

Twitter is unique in its open follower/followee model, thus allowing for much greater scale in everything you do.

Use search.twitter.com to cut through the noise, you will find that Twitter is an amazing news/info hive-mind, with the users acting like nanobots…

Follow me on Twitter, I follow back:
Twitter.com/AlexSchleber

Kevin,

I have reached 800+ followers by simply being real, authentic and helpful. Found the execs for BlofWorld Expo 2008 on Twitter.com and volunteered my videography services in exchange for an unlimited, free pass.

Met presenting executive from Affiliate Summit West 2009 and received a free pass for helping (then unknown executive) with his microphone before his presentation.

Just received a free pass to Affiliate Summit East 2009 in NYC.

All for being a helpful individual!

Respectfully,

Nicholas Chase
http://www.twitter.com/nachase

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@smartbabes… et al.

It is just NOT true that prior celebrity is a precondition: Here is a link to a guy with 22,000 followers, who is, as his site states (my **** highlight):

“@TheBusyBrain is Mike Johnson, a Proud Father, Husband, and Family guy located in St. Petersburg, Florida. ****My profession-by-day is a US Postal Service Letter Carrier.**** I also run and maintain a growing number of web-based business ventures which vary from”

Case closed.

Now follow me on Twitter, I follow back:
Twitter.com/AlexSchleber

Great Tips! nice way to gain up high number of followers

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10 Ways to Get More Followers on Twitter–by The Guy With The 2nd Most Followers…

Well this guy should know how to do what everyone wants to attain, the holy grail of Twitter, the cult leader or Kool-Aid pourer. Whatever you want to call it, its what everyone seems to want and hes the one who did it. The only person with more fo…

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Whats with the obsession on getting more followers?? In real life would you want 10 good quality friends? or 50 friends who doesn’t give a damn about you? I’m just saying

Also, when was the last time that people with the most followers actually responded to anyone other their their real friends? I don’t blame them completely as if you have 50K people asking you a question, there is no way you can respond.

Great article. A must read either you are a newbie or an experienced Tweedy…

I did both bookmark and tweet this article.

Tweet: http://twitter.com/ecomind

Cheers…

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Looks like Kevin retweeted cuz it looks eerily similar to Social Times “Hacking Twitter” Post http://twurl.nl/bpkgb5

why did this comment not pop in my fBook connect?!

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Uhmm, obviously the above numbers are supposed to say 35,000 updates x 1,000 followers = 35,000,000 Contacts

35M contacts / 50,000 followers = 700 Updates

So Scoble would need to do only about 700 updates for the same reach… he gets that done in a dew days or so… :)

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Great post from Kevin. Thanks for sharing your insights !!
Check out the Visual Adaptation of this post by VizEdu .

http://vizedu.com/2009/02/10-ways-to-increase-your-twitter-followers/

otherwise you have to buy more twitter followers :)

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Just seen this article on the latest Diggnation (episode 187) its a good tip, iv had trouble getting some followers. should be good help, thanks Kevin for the info. http://www.twitter.com/mikehardcastle

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I must have got the wrong end of the stick about Twitter…! I thought it was meaningful followers and following that we should be aiming for?! You know… Quality and not Quantity?!

…Or… you can try socialclan.com too! ,socialclan members Read, Follow, Flave, Mark, Subscribe, Vote… YOUR site or blog!

12. be an incarnation of GOD – http://twitter.com/ohhdl

;)
best wishes from vienna, austria
http://twitter.com/andreasklinger

The real question is… do you really want more followers just for the sake of more followers even if you’re not learning anything from them or developing relationships with them? What’s your goal on Twitter? If it’s to prove that you’re cool, more followers will do that. If it’s to network, this way of being won’t do a thing.

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Good way. Translated the article into Russian for readers of my blog, but TechCrunch delete trackback from my blog.

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enlightened earlier today… and this gets better ;)

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Top 5 Twitter Tips You May Not Know About…

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Great tips! Very helpful for a twit-a-holic like myself, who has very few followers :P

~Rebecca

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Great Stuff!

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Thanks! this is really helpful info!

follow me:
http://twitter.com/Wo0t
I follow back :-D

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Twitter is still in early developmental stages of social networking and interaction.. I like the fact that news is being reported faster by tweeters aka EQ in China 2008 and recent plane landing on the Hudson. A new language is being formed even if english literature purists frown upon Twitter. William Gibson talks about “Inch Mail”..
Follow wisely :)

http://twitter.com/dvrogers

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So, Is Kevin gonna become the first person to get 100k followers? Leave Obama, you cant compete with him. The postal service guy has got some months before we can say – a non celebrity got 100k followers. Better than the 5k friends limit in other sites.

My twitter: http://www.twitter.com/venkynow

I have a blog @ http://www.techwhy.wordpress.com. Will get its first article on feb 26.

I had no idea who Kevin Rose was before reading this post. Celebrity? that’s relative!

In the world of Tall Women Admirers I am very wellknown, outside it I’m a “nobody”. does it matter? of course not!

The only thing that matters are the relationships you build – online or IRL – with AnyonE no matter who they are!

If I in the future get a great tip from another mother in being I will be oh so gratefull to the tool “twitter”.

thankyou.

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The tips are pretty good, but of course the most important part is the celebrity factor.

Now I’ll test one tip here: Link everywhere ;)

http://twitter.com/sciforce

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what you say is really true. its not so much what you write or who’s following your twit or how many are following it or whatever, best is to just write about something close to one’s heart, that’s when writing becomes a pleasure and the constructive comments that you receive and the positives you derive from them. are much more important!

a beer now would be nice :)

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Great article! nice tips ;)

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These are all great tips.

I think #8 is really the most important. You need to learn how to carry a conversation on Twitter before people will start taking you seriously. There are tons of things you can do to drive traffic to your twitter page but if people don’t think your providing value to the community you might not get that follow.

So learn from the people who are doing it right. What are they sharing, who are they talking to and how often are they tweeting.

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Thanks for the nice tips.

You are pretty famous Kevin. This is great info though..

http://www.twitter.com/optimalva

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When I see people who have like 40,000 followers and that person is following 10 people, I always think that the person is too good for anyone. How hard is it to hit the follow button? You’re not better than anyone else.

This is a silly post and sillier comments.

The value of Twitter is in everyone making his or her own rules.

I do a brief dissection of this here: http://nazimjamil.com/?r=Ten_Ways_To_Increase_Your_Twitter_Followers

You’ll probably agree with most of it, anyway, take a looksey!

Kevin, that is awesome, I will try and use these tips in the future. thanks again man!

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Great tips, I’ve used them all. http://twitter.com/mcappabianca

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great info -

i will save it to my favs

thank you.

from chris – england – uk

I gained more than 950 twitter followers since March 24, 2009. It has been a great success for me. Great post.

Mohammad Afaq
Follow me on twitter at
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I have more than 950 followers.

Brilliant! Following Kevin and his advice!

I’m trying to get up to at least 25,000 followers before my b day on June 23rd…

It’s partly an experiment and i’d like as much help as possible…..please Help!

http://twitter.com/dstyled

hi I will follow your guide. Now I have only 3 followers …. let us see

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excelent info, i hope it help me to get more followers http://twitter.com/Bllq21

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Tnx for the whole discussions of the gods it helps newcomer like me too much
And ya re tweeting is nice thing

Yeah, it definitely helps to be famous… But, not a prerequisite…

I guess we’re lucky if someone makes it this far through the comments!!!

http://twitter.com/FortuneKookie

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follow me on twitter!!
thanks for the advice
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Thanks for the tips!

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Thanx for the spot on info!

@ http://twitter.com/spoofcard1

I think this article is interesting because I’m always curious how people get 1,000+ followers. I’d like to do it without having to spam. I’m starting to think its a popularity contest or spam contest. I’m writing about it in my blog. Let me know what you guys think!

http://bit.ly/e6LHw

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Celebs and news shows will always have more followers than anybody else.

But,

Some very good tips right there!

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good tips

http://www.twitter.com/koolcreation

I agree with this.

But my guess is that Twitter is not really for “regular people” even though we use it. This info would be great for the people it IS for, those pushing something (their blog/product/film/etc.) and who need those big numbers.

I of course hope to be one of those people soon cos right now I only have 9 followers and they’re all like, my mom. :P

We could all be celebrities in our own minds …

Excellent information!

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hello! its good to hear how u can get many followers on twitter. i’ve been looking all over to find how. and now i know. thx! and do follow me too.
http://www.twitter.com/xmellyssax

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It almost seems to good to be true, but in fact it is true. I have managed to increase my twitter following by 20,000 people since early November, 2008. And, I developed this product which makes money directly from this growth, every day. Not only that, but YOU can duplicate what I have done and make money every day. I will show you exactly what to do, and you will be up and running within hours, not next week or next month, TODAY.

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people. To get more followers on twitter check out this amazing
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I dont think it is a good ideas to follow other people simply because you want them to follow you. It sounded stupid. Whats the point?

You want others to follow you so that you could inform, influence or create an impact via your messages.

Twitter’s retention rate is very low. Around 40%. Minus that figure, you have a very low quality followers who actually read your messages.

I just set up a twitter account at: http://twitter.com/ideasbank.

I have just 23 followers. I will experiment with various strategies as pointed out by Kevin Rose, and will come back to report what works and what doesnt.

Cheers,
Sean Ang

I hope this works, and really good post by Kevin Rose, I like Digg, but the only problem I face, is that people views my content, but don’t bother to Digg them.

http://twitter.com/Shaylaaaaa

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http://twitter.com/captiveminds for updates on politics and news

Truth is, there truly are 1,000s of ppl who are fascinated by the day-to-day life of celebs, even if they are just eating a cheeseburger & fries like the rest of us…

I agree with Daniel. To meet fellow twitters who genuinely share your interests, be as sincere and approachable as possible.

http://www.twitter.com/traceylewis

Twitter sucks!

Kevin’s article is great and rings true to the old addage of providing value to your following or target audience.

However, the biggest problem facing people these days (especially on twitter) is amassing an audience to actually get some listeners. There is a lot of white noise to filter through out there.

I have reviewed a couple of items here (and add more all the time) that I have personally tested and can verify that they work well and I am getting some readership from them. I have only been using Twitter for 2 months but I do have a following over 5k. I would say that roughly 20% of that following is quite responsive to what I have to say and I am in turn interested in their information as well.

Article is here:
http://mojopath.com/good-offers/

Chris.
Proud owner of 3 sticky kids
http://www.twitter.com/mojopath
My Fave Twitter Tool
http://bit.ly/tjmEA

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Good stuff Kevin. Thanks.

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great article you have put together here. im new to the twitterverse but am very excited about wat it has to offer. thanks again.

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This tool helped me get more followers:
http://joecybernet.com/twitamp/?user/nodgie

Do we find good content or do we just find content that fits? Are they not one and the same?

Some interesting thoughts. :o)

You missed out the 11. before ” “If you enjoy this content, add me at twitter.com/kevinrose, thank you.”"

Is the twitter user name with using better search volume keywords will increase followers? Because when I performed search “Find People” I see those name with the keywords get to pickup first?

Great article.Very useful to increase twitter followers.

One more source to increase your twitter followers is http://bit.ly/qtTOg

For great twitter tips and tricks check out here http://bit.ly/TlXWr

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Post informative and entertaining post in your Twitter updates. Follow people who interest you, and keep twittering.

You dont have to follow back everyone who is following you and there is nothing wrong with it. I am compiling a list of twitter users who will follow back.

Ok thanks for this list. A couple of things I been wondering…
1. How can you e-mail or text new followers to thank them for following you.
2. How did you get the @friendlyknoxguy to link. What plug-in?
3. What plug-in to add to your comments to enter your Twitter ID?
If someone can help me, that would be great.
BTW, enjoyed this post, Nice blog you have! Keep up the great work!

Cool Blog

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got any advice for someone broadcasting their website updates? great article!

http://www.twitter.com/outsidervocals

I don’t know how it works. But I tweet.

http://www.twitter.com/dougaldougal

HAPPY

Yeah…being famous is a good way to be popular on twitter. But it takes way too much effort. I can’t afford to spend years serving coffee in Hollywood just to one day make it big and get my Twitter certificate.

But you can do this…

1. Be funny…not stupid funny…but witty funny. Take me…I’m pretty much a slap in the knee. Follow me and you’ll come to know that.

2. Tweet often, but only quality tweets. It’s quality, not mass quantity. You will lose followers if you tweet nonsense too often.

3. Like my boy Kevin said…Re-Tweeting is great to get your name thrown around. Just be sure that when you reel people in, that you can keep them there.

4. Get personal. Tweet like nobody is watching. People don’t wanna read about what kind of coffee you drank this morning…they wanna know who you woke up next to and why she is wearing your pants.

This has been a PSA from Frisky O’Neill.
http://www.twitter.com/FriskyOneill
@FriskyOneill
@SunsetLovin

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I’m Ally, I milk cows and lay eggs… cut my head off and mount it on your wall for your viewing pleasure.

http://www.twitter.com/allyice

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#11 is by far the best

http://twitter.com/lilhuz

1. add nsfw hashes
2 . add nsfw material

rnb artist looking for a little more exposure

Have anyone heard of the “Twittaniare” Great Idea thi s guy. http://twitter.com/twittanaire

He’s asking for donations for Twitter background designs. Brilliant. Twittanaire, love the name.

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Great info. I am new to twitter and slowly building up my twitter profile. These type of articles will help me to increase my followers. More over want to spend more time on twitter. Lets tweet

Fantastic infor about twitting. Hope this will help me to build my twitter account. I am new to twitter and wants to increase my followers. Now will spend more time on twitter..

hmm … I need this badly …. :)

Do we find good content or do we just find content that fits? Are they not one and the same?

Excellent article! I have been trying for a while now to really push my twitter followers into the high numbers.

I do think the best overall suggestion(other than being a celebrity) is to “add value”

This post is really on the top of Google search page. I am looking for this article to boost my followers in Twitter. Great list.

I’m tired of the more followers spam and paid systems. They are all garbage when u can really do it yourself, just gotta know how. I figured once u hit 100 or so followers than others think you’re important and hop on the bandwagon. I got my first 200+ from a followback list where users WANT to follow you, its mutual. Check out http://bit.ly/ffvip or join @ffvip on Twitter. This is the true way and best of all its free. Im at thousands now! Good luck and keep your tweets good to keep your users!

I found an excellent article that helped me get a ton of followers on Twitter. Check it out: Get More Followers on Twitter

The biggest hurdle for Twitter is that this has become a game to get followers and not to really exchange information

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I use the twitter friend generator to add and delete followers on twitter.

Thanks that was very helpful. I always wondered what those tags were.

Twitter is just badly hyped. It sucks.

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Really a Good post.I totally liked it.It has enabled me to understand the things in just few minutes which troubled me till i read your post.I really found it very useful in using thje twitter applications.You can read more about this site at http://thetwittersecret.com/.

Are there any tools that can save time?

Follow me :)

lets play follow the leader
ill be the leader (:

http://www.twitter.com/melani3

ill follow you back

hey buddy.really great steps you have told as how to increse your fan following.how u can become famous socially.

gud. now i can fullfill my dream of becoming a celebrity

hey buddy.nice post man.

nice post buddy.I really liked it.

good post buddy.http://thetwittersecret.com/

hi buddy.nice post.

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Great ideas and suggestion for getting more and more twitter follow fantastics.

Of course twitter will be leading in few years http://twitter.com/seomarketingtip

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Wow that’s the great info about twitter.

http://twitter.com/i_am_youth

i do not think that twitter users have time to read about your bio or try to know who you are . i think that all users try only to increase their number of followers .

I’m following tip #3 and placing my Twitter profile link everywhere. So here it is: http://twitter.com/affiliateblogon

Thanks for the list. There are quite a few that I have never heard of before so I will be saving this to my favorites to try out.

VERY GOOD INFO

Follow me, myself, and I as we try and become the most famous actress of our generation…it’s not all that easy when your only 16 years young

http://twitter.com/YourMySuperman

this arab of sodmg. follow me. @sodmgarab

This is great info Kevin for those of us who appreciate valuable content.

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I hope this doesn’t overlap much with what’s already been said but I’ve been compiling data on the different techniques for the past few weeks and thought I’d share… I put everything up here: http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2009/07/21/how-to-get-twitter-followers-the-definitive-guide/

wow thanks for those tips.. i have just started using twitter..

whoa. qwitter? that’s kinda cool.

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I don’t see why it’s important to get everyone to follow what you’re doing on Twitter. Honestly, as as long as you have a healthy social life outside the internet world, why does it matter? I won’t lose any sleep over some random follower suddenly deciding to “un-follow” me.

But, for the record: http://twitter.com/djsterlingolden

I use a service called oohja to automatically tweet relevant news to my account. It increased my followers and keeps them updated … Can really recommend it.
http://www.oohja.com

I guess I’ll never have many followers because I honestly don’t care what people are doing. What’s the point of having thousands of folks follow you though, unless its for brand recognition? Is there a way to make money from having a huge following on twitter?

Thanks for the great resources! Will definitely be checking out ReTweetist.

Retweeting is one of the best things you can do for yourself and others. A lot of people will retweet for you if you do it for them. Great way to spread useful information around.

Also, people who work on multiple accounts, check out CoTweet.

http://www.twitter.com/guerrillared

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I don’t have alot of followers, but I think if your personable you will get people who care about what your saying enough to follow you.

Good to hear it from horse’s mouth.

Join the movement!

Follow us on twitter @potspace

http://twitter.com/potspace

You can get followers by following others. Try this tool http://bit.ly/3saB5u

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I Follow Back!! I Tweet About Funny Videos, Pictures And Games!! Check Out My Profile!!

http://twitter.com/Pete_com

http://twitter.com/ryyyza

Thanks Kevin. I get so much spam “followers” on my account. Hope this will help me to get some genuine followers.

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Nice im trying now.. Thanks!

I Follow Back!!! I Tweet about funny videos, pictures, and games!! =)

Check Out My Profile!!

http://twitter.com/Pete_com

Nice reading thanks,
http://twitter.com/ewagzarticles

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Try AUTOPILOT TWEET – http://www.autopilottweet.com – It is a great Twitter marketing program. It can automate your boring chores and even has a Twitter Friend Adder so you can auto follow or even follow by keyword. Definitely a time-saver!

Cool, i never knew what retweeting was, i’ll use it now..

follow me?

RachellStephens

<3

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twitter trains are also a good way to get folllowers

thetwittertrain.info is my favorite twitter train. tons of followers easily (: no spammage

It also doesnt hurt to run a contest. Try to get on sites like http://www.tweetsandtreats.com – they feature 1 Twitter contest a day.

I Tweet About Funny Videos, Pictures, And Games!!

Check Out My Profile I Follow Back!

http://twitter.com/Pete_com

This is really a useful article for & i’m sure it will useful for all of guys who are new to twitter.. Thanks

Hi!

I found your article very very usefull for me! Bcoz I am a NewBie and I think practicing your instruction, given in this, article will increase my experience in TWITTER and marketing of MY Blog as well.

Regards for your TIPs!

Hey Kevin – You can get more twitter followers by using our service, http://www.flashtweet.com. Send us an email at info@flashtweet.com and we will hook you up with a FREE account!

ocial Media presence takes time, energy and probably will have an opportunity cost (you could be doing something else at the same time)

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This is some very useful information. Thanks, Kevin!

Follow me at http://twitter.com/webcastcenter

I think the best way to get more followers on twitter is to join http://www.getrealfollowers.com
Check it out! :)

Follow me on Twitter pleaseee :)

Shelbyy_ann

New to this whole twitter thing. Excellent article and will try some of the tricks from all of you.

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER AND I WILL FOLLOW YOU
THERE FOR WE BOTH INCREASE OUR FOLLOWERS!!
don’t leave me hangin If you readin this LOL

help a brotha out! @killakaneypc

- PEACE

thats a great post! kudos to you kev!!

The one thing that helps the most is if you already have a following or celebrity from somewhere else. Otherwise it’s quite a struggle to build your number of followers.

Having more followers isnt important! What’s important is that you enjoy the service and you communicate with your friends by using twitter.. RIGHT?

Hi Kevin

Just started using Twitter as I can see the huge potential in it.

Great advice.

Thanks

Graeme

Also like the reverse enginerring bit on the top twitter users. Will give that a shot!!

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Follow me on twitter, http://www.twitter.com/magniator

I don’t spam nor say crap like 75% of twitter users. I actually listen to what you have to say, and I’ll happily follow you back. Just gotta let me know. Thanks (:

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Please follow a french guy : http://twitter.com/samhickmann

Thx !!!

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whoah a good one..youre good kevin, and i can see twitter’s future: as long as people still support it and there are lots of interesting personalities around, its going to go a looooooooong way

Wow!! That’s cool… I m new to twitter… actually I didn’t try to use it… After orkut i m fed of this… But it is increasing in demand and I really thank you to the guidance u have provided for a new user…

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Well, I must totally agree with you on this.

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Respected sir,
I have a blog and i want to use some of these points of this article.
Please allow me the permission to use these points.
I shall be thankful of you.

Thanks for the RT tip – might help get more buzz for my celebrity news and gossip

http://twitter.com/moanquivers

Like the RT tip – may help my celebrity news and gossip updates get some buzz. Thanks.

http://twitter.com/moanquivers

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Now follow me on Twitter, I follow back:

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how can i get many followers in the short time ?

how can i get many twitter followers ? i think it’s hard

Thanks for all the tips. Retweetist seems like it will be pretty helpful.

follow us and we will follow you

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follow me plz

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Yes I will have to find that out and if you are a dancer please send me a friend request because I am a dancer!!! follow me http://www.twitter.com/hollywoodancr

a lot of useful information into a single post. Thanks for it

follow me @ http://twitter.com/siteexpert

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Thanks for sharing, as i know that in coming months twitter will be going to play major role in social media, i am always ready to read and gain more knowledge about how i am make more followers.

It’s all WELL & GREAT seeking followers, but when you do it out of affection rather than greed, you feel more pleased. I wish you PEACE, both within and out.

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what a pathetic sort of life….

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follow me on Twitter.com/VictoriaAngel

follow me…promise I’m interesting
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I use Hummingbird to get more followers on Twitter. I think this is the link: http://www.hummingbird2.com

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I use Hummingbird to get more followers on Twitter. I think this is the link: http://www.hummingbird2.com

lets play follow the leader
ill be the leader :D

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That was really great tips, love it much

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Thanks for the info. I am doing pretty good on twitter, I just broke a 1000 Followers.

Kevin Rose how you doin im an artist and student that is currently goin to the Art institute of california – San Francisco and ima a big fan of what you do i been reading bout you for a minute now and i would like to interview you when you not busy for a project in class. I would also like for you to listen to my music at http://bit.ly/2X8vZH and give me some feed back made you can invest of promote me please check me out when you get a chance that would mean a lot to me one of you many fans thank you

Follow me at http://twitter.com/IzaDoneDadda

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Follow me at http://twitter.com/IzaDoneDadda ima an upcomming artist soon to be televised im interested in meeting new people and artist you can check my music videos out at http://bit.ly/2X8vZH I need some ideas for a new song so please share ure thoughts

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welcome to December 2009 … make money on twitter without followers

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Twitter is REVOLUTIONARY !

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Nice tips!

Maybe I don’t have enough followers because I barely post pictures…

But eh, help me to get 200+ followers please. :)

Followw Mee

http://twitter.com/mszfxkinbr33zy

Great tips… so far we have 1 follower Yay!

Is not cool anymore to ask followers to retweet your tweets :) if someone ask me to retweet his tweets i don’t do that… but if his tweets are useful and very informative i will retweet it with pleasure :)

nice info bro…

follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/nanggroe

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Actually there’s only one simple rule to getting more twitter followers! This comedy animation explains it – not sure how much use you’ll find it though!

lets play follow the leader!
ill be the leader :D
http://twitter.com/Melani3

i think if twitter is one of the easiest and fastest growing social networking website . it is easy to use and to share our thoughts in just 140 words . Twitter is great for everyone. now u may follow me i will follow back .

hi follow me https://twitter.com/rohankharat

Twitter is awesome. However I do feel as though it is being used as a marketing tool as opposed to a social network.

I have been use twitter since last year, but some tips that you write is quite new for me. great tips :)

good post even though i hardly ever heard of some of these twitter lists

follow me http://twitter.com/jmillzrmf

Great advice Kevin, will be using ALOT of it :)

Sam
http://www.howtochangelifenow.com
http://www.twitter.com/Changelifenow

Great Kevin

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Kevin is no snob. He just follows the idea of only following people he’s interested in. 147 is a lot when you think about it. You’d need to check your page about every half hour or so to keep up. But you’d NEVER keep up with following, say, 1500 people. You’d need to check every 3 minutes, and spent 20 of those minutes reading the new tweets, therefore you’d never keep up because you need more time to read than the wave of tweets coming in allows. Also, people have things to do like eat, drink, sleep, and so on. It’s not very healthy to multitask. Who has the time and energy to Twitter 24/7?

Thanks a lot for this very useful article

re-tweeting is actually good, your followers get good content even if they are not following the original tweet-er!

OH! owner of tweets guiding us the way. Great tips , thankyou for sharing such an article

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Kevin, a year later this information is very help. My company is pretty new to tweeting and these tips will get us going. I hope you write a new blog post for 2010. I will always check out your blog. Best -Tina

I don’t think it’s going to work much

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Retweetist looks like a good API, thanks Kevin.

Follow me @ http://twitter.com/ridpath

follow me on twitter thanks..

http://twitter.com/shernan_kaos

interesting tips… this is the natural way to increase real twitter follower…

Great list. Laughing at the number 11 added. “Be a celebrity” Very funny. Awesome article though and good strategies. Thank you much for sharing.

I agree that following every one else is not right choice especially if you are concerned about name of your company.

good list.
I never use image

I think twitter etc are working due to marketing done by complete marketing people or by us blogger, who are not into marketing but do that time to time :)

@satya61229

Honestly depends on what you’re trying to do!
If you hold conferences and you add your twitter to your powerpoint. I see nothing wrong with that.
As well as on your business card? Why the heck not?
We live in 2010, our world evolves around social media. Like it or not.

Maybe not “How to get the most people following me”, but rather focus on conversations, and actually spending time with those who take 2 mins of their day to read your tweets.

Ian
@calif0rnian

I should check this out… what really surprises me is that Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg??? When did I miss that? The last time I saw him he was working on the Screen Savers on the now murdered Tech TV. Wow, it’s like the day I found out those cheese slices you find in burgers aren’t actually cheese…

Love it. great post. http://www.facebook.com/artechroofing

I like the twittercouter. is like titter analytics

Haha, so true.

Also, add me: http://twitter.com/hamsterriffic

Have a nice day

Thanks for the tips.

http://twitter.com/hamsterriffic

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I enjoyed this article very much it gives exact and great advice of how to gain followers I’ve seen how this works personally. Especially when you give away something that people really want. Thank you for the information.

Any recommendations for software to help automate getting twitter followers?

Just want to say thanks alot for this article!
It really helped when I first started on Twitter as I had no idea what I should be doing on Twitter!

I now have over 10,700 followers and believe that this article pretty much helped me get started!

If you want to follow me I’ll follow you back!
http://twitter.com/PrayMaddyMcCann

Amazing tips! This should help me spread around http://www.muttr.com :) Thanks again!

I am newbie on twitter and after reading this I realize that I need to understand lots of things to get popularity on twitter.

Thank you so much for this so very very helpful. Have a fantastic day.
Julia

follow meee !

Thankyou for this (:

follow me on Twitter:
http://www.Twitter.com/sparklemac

thanks!

I’m quite new to the twitter scene myself. I was thinking about playing the numbers game but that kinda defeats the object of earning proper followers.

Thanks for the tips :)

hi check my account…i applied kevin’s rule ..got success .www.twitter.com/nsgauthamraj

Kevin Rose is the man!

thank you kevin for sharing this great article..

Twitter is so confusing :|

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Great training for the whole community to become twitter spammers.

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i have a better suggestion http://socializedcard.com

it helps to find else where you on internet?

it increase your followers not only in twitter but also in other social network sites

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good pint

http://www.youtube.com/user/Tizzification#p/a/u/0/dWeQHB2R51M

Shows some software where it adds followers automatically :D

this was bvery helpful!
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#11 was very useful
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Meanwhile there are also some fine Twitter Applications around which bring you targeted followers right away. That helps to increase the count on Twitter Followers and since they are meanwhile in most cases targeted Twitter Users the can also also convert well. This depends a bit on the subject of what your selling or offering on the site you’re promoting on Twitter. Check out one of the applications I’m talking about on my blog and see for yourself. I installed it and had 316 followers on day one. That’s undeniable cool if you’re looking to get more followers, isn’t it?

Thanks Kevin… good advise … we are gathering and sharing viewpoints on the best of the best social media marketing for “local businesses”… follow our new twitter account here http://www.twitter.com/netventures
helping local businesses to get found locally online

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very well written..

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I find it a bit odd that you have the oldest comments in front and the newest on page 15 or so…. Does this have a reason which I don’t understand?
I mean no offense here; just in case I miss out on something important here.

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want enterainment?

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Nicole7232 <- follow for follow?
:D <3

Having a RT this on your blog/website is good as well

Great blog by the way!

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Just would like to have some more followers for my Twitter as well read the cool types of things I Blog about

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he’s cute “kevin rose” :p

I have no real reason to post here, except to say I liked the advice.

And also, as I’m sure you’ve guessed by now I want you to follow me on twitter!

so…

http://twitter.com/thecatwithfish

don’t think too much, just follow!

Thanks for the post,Kevin! I just signed up to Qwitter.com, but is there any way we could find the list of people that UnFollow us, before we sign up to Qwitter.com ? Thanks!!

Great post. Bookmarked and retweeted. I think the most effective method of bringing in Twitter followers is teaching and encouraging followers to retweet and spread your content because by doing this, you are increasing the likeliness that your content reaches a whole new group of people.

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Being a celebrity actually helps. How many normal people get a big following count without owning a big business or being a celebrity? I just don’t want to follow everyone that follows me because I like following content that I’m interested in reading. :)

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Well done Kevin, your article is rather old but the info is still current. Plus, look at the huge number of comments! Once more, well done.

We’ve used social media while selling http://Parallels.us and it worked just fine for us. Not sure if we’ll be bothered about actively seeking more Twitter followers but we surely do undestand why it’s important for many individuals and companies.

followme, because my name is legit cloverskye. and shit.

Actually justin bieber has over 1,957,876 followers, ya over a million, so hes got more then obama:)

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best idea

I tried by myself but it was a waste of time so I purchased 5000 twitter followers from http://www.socialkik.com and they delivered them sooner than promised, that made a huge positive impact on my online business ! I started receiving more customers and better conversion rate because of the big number of followers which enhanced my reputation ! I highly recommend them : http://www.socialkik.com

I designed an app that gains followers legitimately. Its a train of sorts, but unlike the others, this one does not auto tweet asking to get more riders, it doesnt follow 200 people giving you 10 followers, at maximum you will follow the first 50 people before you, and after you ride the next 50 riders auto follow you, i also devised another way using bloging, an example would be blog.train.xc0n.com so far ive gained 500 followers from doing this, the proof is on my twitter account. =]

Good tips but only long term, I prefer working on my business and I purchased 5000 twitter followers from http://www.socialkik.com and they delivered them sooner than promised, that made a huge positive impact on my online business ! I started receiving more customers and better conversion rate because of the big number of followers which enhanced my reputation ! I highly recommend them : http://www.socialkik.com

Sadly enough, that’s all people do is Twitter..”24/7…”

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Interesting comments.

Interesting view

Twitter is far mor complicated than I thought… not as obvious or intuitive but ….. very interesting.

Please help me I'm lost I need to see how can I increase my followers??

http://twitter.com/Mscarolain

Increasing is easy because most of them are "robots" behind company software …. Real people is really difficult.

Dimitri

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I loved your post, Kevin. This is a great excellent guidance to get twitter followers in the right way. I have retweeted this to my buddies.

Follow me lol. I'll follow back :D

Great post!
Qwitter & TwitterCounter are very useful!

Follow me and I'll Follow you ASAP! http://www.twitter.com/briandewangga

Plan your content around what your customers want to know is the short answer.

Focus on what your customer wants to know (assuming as stated this is for a business purpose like lead generation). Build a strategic content plan for your twitter program (and extend it to the rest of your communications mix too!). Here are six steps on how to build a content plan by mixing classic marketing strategy with the advantages of Web 2.0.

1. Make sure you align your plan with your marketing & sales priorities
2. Identify and segment your target customers to understand their needs
3 Understand what your customer wants to know by going deep with your analytics, talking with your sales team and other customer touch-points (and customer interviews and research if you can)
4. Audit your existing content and expertise for tools and knowledge worth sharing
5. Focus your new content development using a high-yield content hub and spoke approach
6. Follow and listen to your followers, track what they find interesting and expand your content based on their engagement.

While disciplined this approach is really not complicated. We plan it in a 90 minute workshop but you can do it yourself too.

Check out the blog post listed below for a free content planning tool — you can also find it on slideshare under “BrainRider” — and a second post on some quick tips on how to understand what your customer wants to know.
http://blog.brainrider.com/2010/05/b2b-marketing-...

And feel free to follow-us at twitter.com/brainrider if you want to see our content plan in action.

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we are going to start promotions giving away free ad spots and cash

I use both Twitter and Facebook on my website, to propagate the content and I have many more users coming from Facebook simply because Facebook is more searchable for users and Facebook encourage to subscribe and join.. while twitter is quite neutral and makes it difficult to find what you want..

lol, your twitter account is ban :P

I love this post

I think these are great tips. I just started a project trying to grow a Twitter for a friend of mine. So if you followhttp://www.twitter.com/singingfoolvid I'll follow you back. Not too mention we have lots of cool giveaways.

Thanks.

Hey friend, miss you..

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Great article :)
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thanks, nice info :)

Nice Article …..but does it work ?
http://www.twitter.com/swot_analyst

Thanks for the retweetist. I haven't heard it before. Thanks for the wonderful post.

Great Ideas!

Twitter account: http://twitter.com/bbchost

Thank you for following… we will also do the same

Yeah, be famous, follows a crapload of people and hope they follow you back, and pay for a bunch of followers. Hahaha.
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Your post helps people understand the importance of twitter.
And also help of me with ur great information. Thanks for sharing

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thanks for sharing this, you can get more twitter followers

I think generating followers on twitter is one of those longterm efforts and you have to keep ethical all these programs for automatic adding will probably get you banned.

heard.

best response so far ;)

I noticed a substantial increase in the amount of followers when I decided to start using Tweet Adder. At first I was hesitant but my friend showed me how it works and it makes everything go so much faster when it comes to following people and following people back that are following you. Ultimately, I decided to start using it when I found out how to get a discount in an article on hubpages. Here is a link to the article if your interested in getting a discount.
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Really wonderful , best article and very informative article

Very intersting Article .
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Very good and informative post. I think I need more targeted followers. I have added that big ugly bird twitter widget to my blog. We'll see if that helps any. Again, thanks!

Wow, we learned alot from this article and all the comments . Plus we had a few good laughs also

You can learn even more and have more laughs here http://twitter.com/EcHoToNe

every one have great day!

"Follow the top twitter users and watch what they tweet."

This is pretty redundant, given how they're all celebrities.

Make your tweets short. Follow those profiles that are interesting. Design your background into something that is nice.

Yeahh!
just like http://url.go.it/yw4Mti
:)

I like to follow people who are real and interesting; people trying to use Twitter to sell a product disturb/annoy me. http://twitter.com/Brad_Winters

Follow Me @ https://twitter.com/NiicoooDoll :) ill follow back!

If you're speaking at an event, there are even more ways to take care of the Tweeters in the audience. Take care of `em and they'll take care of you! http://bit.ly/dlqmFc

Awesome article, all those tips will definitely increase your Twitter follower base. I also wrote a free e-book on how you can get as many Twitter followers as you want, guaranteed. Check it out http://bit.ly/9I9SQW

thanks for the wonderful post, found it very useful. Thanks

So Follow me on twitter( https://twitter.com/Effie1995 ) hahahahhahahahahahhaha

Great one!!! Lol

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Very informative post, since I'm new to all this.
@TahirahAshai

I read this really good article that mentioned Tweet Adder as the #1 rated way of getting followers on twitter really fast.

The article also had some really good instructions that tell you how to GET A DISCOUNT on Tweet Adder Twitter Software. Here is a link to the article – You can get a discount once you find the discount website and the coupon code.

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Kevin well done dude lot of followers..

When i will reach :(

Your post is very informative and i am trying to follow all points let’s hope it will work for my twitter account too.

Thanks,

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Wow Awesome Tips Buddy :)

I improved my Twitter followers to some extend…. I need to work more to get more followers ;)

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hi =D

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will apply for this ;)
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I have to agree with you, even if re-tweeting does not get you more followers, it does at least give your followers good content :)

http://twitter.com/MelissaSutton

at least it was worth bein mentioned on a feed with 4355k readers.

I like the idea of a cheeky contest! Certainly something that will add more followers even if you never give a prize. :)