Get 5 Million Twitter Followers Right Now! February 16, 2010
For those of you familiar with Twitter (that should be most of you by now), there tends to be a correlation between the amount of followers that a user has and the quality of that user’s tweets. If someone is new to Twitter, that’s one thing. But if you consistently spit out quality tweets, you will eventually have a sizable following on the site. For this reason (and a handful of other reasons), people want as many followers as possible.
Every few weeks, there is a new “get XX followers now!” scheme that pops up. I remember when I first started messing with Twitter (over a year ago) it was a service called Flashtweet. At the time, Flashtweet was free. You logged in, and the service would allow you to look at any Twitter user’s followers. You could follow all of them, and then wait for them to follow you back. Wait a few hours or a day or whatever, and then unfollow the ones that didn’t follow you back – Or unfollow all of them if you wanted. This seemed to work somewhat well, and I used to to build up Twitter accounts for some clients at the time. They still have rather large followings on the site, regardless of the frequency of their tweets.
The latest of these sites is Spread My Tweets! I messed around with it for a little while this morning, and it definitely works – You give it your login info, and it follows 15-20 people using your account, but in exchange, you get 40-50 new followers. I don’t know how new this site is, but it seems to be spreading like wildfire. I’d imagine that it is only a matter of time until Twitter tweaks their API or something so that the site no longer works.
The idea was appealing to me at first, but then it dawned on me – I have to be suspicious about the quality of the followers that you gain by using this site. I doubt many of them would end up being genuinely interested in the things you’ll be tweeting in the future, and most of them will most likely go through and unfollow when they’re done using the service. It really is just a number, and if these new followers won’t ever interact with you or retweet your content or anything, what’s the point?
Anyway, if you follow me on twitter, and happened to see some weird garbage this morning about gaining new followers, that was where it came from.
For more about these “get followers quick” methods, check out this post from KMK Blog.
The Church of Google Feb 16, 2010
Twitter sucks anyway, you are all addicted to txt messaging, who really cares if you took a shower this morning?
James Mar 5, 2010
I found that my Twitter experience has been reduced because of too many connections. Reducing that number over time has really enhanced it for me.