Comments on: What Is The Right Way To Grow Your Twitter Following?

By: Ellyn

Ellyn — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:18:25 +0000

You definitely should not have to follow everyone who follows you. You might have people who are interested in your area of expertise but you have no interest in theirs.

I read that Seth Gordin of Squidoo fame doesn’t follow anyone. That, on the other hand is arrogant – I guess he thinks no one has anything to teach him! – Ellyn Deuink

By: Heidy

Heidy — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:08:43 +0000

I made the same mistake as a lot of people in that I followed anyone who followed me. I also signed up for a service that was to get me followers but most of them are my competitors for services I offer.

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By: J @ Make lots of money now

J @ Make lots of money now — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:31:21 +0000

Normally if you follow someone, they will follow you. I think it’s able to follow 1000 people per week without much trouble with time – but the question I would ask myself is: Is the followers following me targeted? Will it do me any good as I doubt whether they relate to what I do.

By: tinnitus miracle

tinnitus miracle — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:34:50 +0000

i am using for a over a year now. but i rarely focus on my twitter because i can follow only 2000 people but some people i know have like 4000 followers or more.
but good thing about twitter is that it helps my generate traffic for my site and also helpful for the products i promote. my friend recommend me a software to have 10000 followers but since ive read the twitter guidelines once you get caught your account will be disable

By: xhamster

xhamster — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:46:41 +0000

I too have been struggling with how should I be using Twitter. I don’t use autoresponder and I look at every person who follows me and if I’m not interested in who they are or what they do, I don’t follow. I like to see what people are doing but I can only take so many internet marketers. I stick with the one’s, like yourself, who I’ve been following for a while in other venues, such as blogs. I’d like people to follow me who want to know more about me and what I’m doing.

By: Kassie

Kassie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:09:21 +0000

I think Twitter is great in principle but the problem is like everything else if people start to automate everything you then start to wonder if it’s real. Spammers made email so much harder and you can be sure that the same will happen with Twitter as it did Myspace and many others.

By: Are You Destined to be Blogger?

Are You Destined to be Blogger? — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:01:29 +0000

Yeah Yaro,
I totally agree with you. Recently, i just sacked..ups sorry, i just removed who i am following and just 8 remaining people who i am truly following, including you, Yaro. I dont mind if my followers do the sama thing like i did, because i just want to start all over again from zero who really want to be my follower. And so it goes with my Facebook, it doesnt bother if i only had few friends as long as i stay connected with them.

Thanks,
Daniel Likin

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By: Make Money

Make Money — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:07:16 +0000

I just saw that a lot of people were promoting these viral twitter following builders which I felt were just a waste of time. BTW, I’m following you on Twitter. Follow back is possible!

-Abdulrehman Agha

By: Lydia Edwards

Lydia Edwards — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:39:04 +0000

Hi Yaro

I am doing your BAB and Membership Mastermind courses and am just beginning to delve into Twitter so have not really had the dilema of to follow or not to follow. I think it is best to follow people that I find interesting regardless of who followed who first.

Just like Facebook, there is a tendancy for people to get as many followers and ‘friends’ as possible for quodus. Then there is the spam element, I have just blocked two profiles with dubious content. However I am somewhat aware of of the appearance of having more people following you, the more prestigious it appears to be.

Lydia

By: jan geronimo

jan geronimo — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:59:59 +0000

In my experience, it’s much saner tack to follow people who give value by tweeting useful links, engaged you in meaningful conversations. Twitter can also be like a playground. A cool place to hangout and have fun with online blogging buddies. I try to joke or tease people I’m friends with. And for this, I’m using DM a lot. You just never know who will be offended even with a lame joke.

You’re right, we don’t need 20K followers if we have an engaged circle of friends and buddies. It’s a waste of time, resources. I’d rather have a few hundreds than thousands of people who don’t have the time to read my blog. Or even connect with me on a personal level.

Splendid idea, this.

By: Leigh Anne Wilkes

Leigh Anne Wilkes — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:15:59 +0000

I am still fairly new to Twitter but have to say I believe in the quality vs. quantity approach. I only want to follow people I am truly interested in and want to read what they say. Thanks for your view point Yaro!

By: James Bishop

James Bishop — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:25:41 +0000

I have to agree with you on not following everyone who follows you. As you said, they are following you for the value you are offering them and if the only value they percieve from following you is to get you to follow them back then for you it is pointless. Great post!

By: Tim @ Blog Tips For Beginners

Tim @ Blog Tips For Beginners — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:06:23 +0000

And Rajaie, what’s wrong with having more followers? If 10,000 followers meant I had 1,500 “targeted” followers I would always choose it over having 1,000 purely targeted followers.

By: Tim @ Blog Tips For Beginners

Tim @ Blog Tips For Beginners — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:04:04 +0000

Once you follow more than about 1000 people you start to just get a rolling list of tweets that fill a new page in a few minutes. So once you are there whats the problem with following more people? It doesnt really cost you anything and you can still track @s and DMs? Thats why I decided to turn back on my Auto Follow Back.

By: Rajaie AlKorani

Rajaie AlKorani — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:22:45 +0000

I’m planning on starting a fresh Twitter account for this exact reason; I’d rather have 1,000 people that follow me because they are genuinely interested in me rather than have 10,000 followers that only care about me following them back.

Do you subscribe to the RSS feeds of all the people that are subscribed to yours? No.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:07:25 +0000

As a long standing member of social sites from Friendster ( before went down for 6 months and everyone moved to myspace) myspace and facebook, I’ve seen the potential of Twitter but as a new member of Zero followers and following Zero, the general push to begin is a little staggering. As you mentioned.. i don’t want to just add people for the general sake of it.

However this being said for example : if i have 10,000 followers, 6,000 of those are auto-followed that probably have.. little to no interest in what i have to offer. those who are interested will still read you reguardless even if its at a glance. and those who aren’t.. well it changes nothing even if they weren’t following me they still wouldn’t read it.

Except. i have been to many websites that offer little to no value to me Personally… But do i know someone who might like it? someone who ..yeah they’d like that and then you IM the link? of course. we’ve all done it.

even if the refferal rate is 1%. thats still 1% more potentional clients. and as we know.. they’ll tell 2 people.. and they’ll tell 2 people.. and thats like a million people right there!

By: Tom Freeman

Tom Freeman — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:28:30 +0000

I think it’s good for communicating with people you already know in a kind of conversational way, but I think the problems start when you get too many people just trying to sell you stuff and promote themselves… Still I have found some interesting websites from there… And an awful lot of rubbish, in which case I unfollow immediately!

By: DVDs

DVDs — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:19:21 +0000

Yes, one problem I’ve found with Twitter is that while you can think you have a lot of followers, in reality a lot are just people following you hoping you’ll read their marketing messages. I’m still yet to be convinced that Twitter is worth the effort, as it does take a lot of time.

By: DVDs

DVDs — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:12:17 +0000

I too totally agree that just because somebody follows you it doesn’t mean that you should automatically follow them back.

However, being pragmatic, if you want to attract as many followers as possible then it may be better just to grit your teeth and follow them all.

There are various Twitter clients around where you can group people, so you could put the majority of people in one group that you don’t actually read very often and the ones you are interested in in another group.

That way you’ll not get drowned out by everyone’s tweets.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:34:16 +0000

So many people on Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, et al, are there just killing time and are not looking to buy anything or be marketed to. They are the ultimate “lookie-loos”. In my experience, the only Social Media thingy worth a hoot when you’re trying to build a following of people who have a reasonably high probability of buying something fom you is Blogging. [ That's why I joined your Blogging Mastermind program ]

By: Internet Age

Internet Age — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:53:29 +0000

I like your observation that any online social application mirrors our society, where the playing fields are not level. What i’m seeing with social media is that some people tend to go on a bit of a binge, where they equate quantity of followers / friends with perceived success, but pay scant regard to quality. Quality wins out over quantity in my book, every time…..

By: Hans Kristian Anderson

Hans Kristian Anderson — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:13:01 +0000

I’ve been following people through auto follow out of respect for following me. I try to follow other internet marketers, the main reason is to follow and connect with like minded people who I may learn from and possibly make a sale.

The fact that I now get a lot of followers that I normally would not follow doesn’t concern me. When I make contact with someone I will always see their message in the sent DM’s as I’m deleting the others.

By: Alicia Bowyer

Alicia Bowyer — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:51:35 +0000

I am currently trying tweet deck and the auto following thing but am quickly getting turned off. My marketing and web site are all family friendly and I found that as soon as I turned on the auto follow feature I was getting porn followers and some with nasty avatar pictures. I have noticed that no other comments on this subject have mentioned a problem with this but it has really turned me off of the auto follow function.
Has anyone else had a problem in this area?

By: gre test

gre test — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:16:26 +0000

good stuff. best advice i’ve heard about twitter is that 90% of the time you should be listening to your market, and only 10% of the time you should be communicating to it. so for me, it’s been a great tool for seeing what interests people enough to write 140 characters.

By: Amy Howard

Amy Howard — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:44:55 +0000

I’m not sure how this whole social media thing is supposed to work or if it is powerful as so many others make it out to be.

For now I only follow a few people. I’m still trying to figure out how to get people from MY target market to follow me. I get the concept but the execution is a little off.

I’m sure I will figure it out at some point or someone else will and give up the secret to social media.

By: Amy Howard

Amy Howard — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:40:00 +0000

I’m glad you did a topic about Twitter. Frankly, I get the concept but I am still unsure about the execution.

For now I follow only a few people. I’m sure that eventually I will figure this whole social media thing out but for now I am still wondering how to get MY market to follow me.

On Facebook I went out and asked to be friends with everyone. I don’t think that was such a good move on my part. Now my wall is filled with useless comments and people are sending me things that I just don’t have time to fool with.

I’m sure that I will figure it out at some point or someone else will and share the secret to using social media.

By: Tatesjourney

Tatesjourney — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:17:18 +0000

I was wondering about the importance of twitter but couldn’t find enough information anywhere. Thanks for a great post. I am in South Korea teaching English and I am writing and posting vids/pics about the experience but it seems like there is no audience.

By: Carbon Copy Money Tree

Carbon Copy Money Tree — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:54:49 +0000

Great info on Twitter……I like the 140 character limit and I am going to go set up an account and get started!

Thanks,

Sean