I’ve haven’t been using Twitter for that long. Most of my followers found me but when I get some free time I may seek out specific people I want to follow. When somebody follows me I check out their Twitter page and their site of they have one. That gives me a pretty good idea if I want to follow back immediately. If they have nothing – not even a tweet I wait. If they use a Twitter tool that auto follows and then generates pages of thanks for following I don’t follow. I don’t feel like sorting through all those to find the tweets I want to read. Most of the tools have a option to either tweet a thanks for the follow or send out a PM. If your using a tool for that use the PM feature. I think some people broadcast the tweets so their update count climbs real fast. If you do that I don’t follow. If you start to do it I will unfollow you. I don’t care who you are.

If I don’t follow some one immediately it can be a pain search back through all those pages of followers. I will check out people I didn’t follow before to see if they are making try at it and follow those that do.

I use 2 tools. One is Qwitter – http://useqwitter.com/ and it sends me an email if some one stops following. If they do I stop following them. I heard some people say it wasn’t working any more but it works fine for me. The other one is – Your Twitter Karma – http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ I like this because it shows everybody that follows or you follow. It shows you if they follow you or you follow them. You can click their Twitter images and go visit their page. There is a tic box next to each one. At the bottom of the page you can bulk follow or unfollow. You have a drop menu and can select to see every body or only those that follow you or those you follow etc… A lot easier than clicking on followers on your Twitter page and searching backward.

I also have a very diverse global group of followers and that’s what I like. I’m in internet marketing but I have marketers, freelancers, professors, writers, chefs, real estate professionals, travel, major media, webmasters, programmers, virtual assistants and some that are there just for the social aspect. Go figure. I said enough I’m going else where to comment.

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Thanks for the pointers and references.

I found that, quite by chance, I’ve been doing exactly what Julia Angwin advises – and I can absolutely testify to its success.

Simply by setting up a search, answering questions and including a link to specific articles on my blog where they explain the answer more fully, I’ve greatly multiplied my number of followers.

I’m also getting offers of, and enquiries about, new business. I got 3 new enquiries about paid gigs just this week alone.

Twitter has, for me, been the most successful of all the Social media I’ve tried, by a long way. (And I’ve tried a lot!)

Cheers,

Martin.

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All my very best to you and who you follow
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Bad karma aside, thanks for the informative view on a great tool.

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