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Re: How I got over 600 NEW Twitter Followers in 24 hours - Let me help you!

thebusybrain — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:39:39 -0000

UPDATE: It is now a couple months later, 13,000 Twitter followers now, and I continue to have meaningful conversations with my followers, and have literally spoken on the phone, or even met in person a good number of new twitter friends.

Where's the bad Karma you speak of?

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Jyou — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:06:19 -0000

It is cool, but when does it become excessive?
Meeting new people is fun, but how will you meet all the people who friend you O_o? isn't it somewhat overwelming? Just curious about what you think about this.

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Kojenwa — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:33:05 -0000

I think I like that strategy a lot better. Better for long term gain, no?

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Laura — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:35:19 -0000

Thanks for publishing Brian....I chose not to follow you. I'd like to develop meaningful contacts via Twitter, not just people who want to market to me.

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TheMarque — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:09:26 -0000

Wow, is this why I have been getting so many followers lately? I didnt even know this. haha...

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thebusybrain — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:23:48 -0000

I love this! Nice Hat BTW!

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Marie Beausoleil — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:22:47 -0000

I just joined Twitter a few days ago, and I already have 81 followers, and I follow a lot more than that. I am chatting with people I'd never connect with otherwise, just little tidbits out of our day. I'm hearing about interesting (and some not so interesting) business sites, and I'm hearing news that I hadn't heard. It's great. I'm sitting in my living room, just me and my baby, and I don't feel lonely.

Is it spammy? I don't know. But I know I'm loving it.

Thank you, The Busy Brain. And yes, I'm following you. :)

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Kemeny_x — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:19:25 -0000

I know im late to this discussion, but this is exactly the same as just adding random people on facebook, or any other social site.... people have been doing this since the start.... nothing really new here......
the problem....... no quality followers.... most of the people you add this way just end up being and feeling spammy/spammed..

BE SMART

i think its just better to follow the “Tit-for-Tat” people.... say some smart stuff... actually a bunch of smart stuff... and the followers will come on their own.

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thebusybrain — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:21:09 -0000

Prune it down! You can remove any of the people who didn't reciprocate your follow!

Use Twitter Karma to do it automatically - http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/

Or Manually by going through your "Following" list and remove anyone who doesn't have the "Direct Message" link under their username.

ALSO, keep in mind - If you are on my list of followers, you will continue to get followed as new people discover this concept.

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Chris Jacobson — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:17:20 -0000

Well that only lasted for so long. I followed 2,000 people in about 45 minutes and can't follow anybody else. :(

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AthenaEmily — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:16:48 -0000

You rock!

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Michael Cummings — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:13:19 -0000

I do find that this was a good 'experiement' but im not sure what the point of following everyone and having them follow everyone on your list was for if you are just going to go unfollow everyone later.

You followed me and without me even knowing that this little experiement was going on, I followed you back. Over two days I got quite a few new followers because of this little stunt, but then I go to send you a direct message today to ask you about your domain name that amazon wants to buy and I see that you have unfollowed quite a number of people, including myself. What is the point if not to be some kind of popularity contest for yourself? I understand you are a marketer, but if you are just out to mess up the dynamics of the system then I think the experiment had ill intentions.

I find it to be a huge twitter foul to follow and then unfollow for the sake of gaining followers alone.

If anyone agrees or disagrees with me you can find me on twitter @michaelcummings

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Sandraa Hudson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:45:46 -0000

I like to follow people that make tweers that are of interest to me.

I read what people post, and want to be reading only what is of interest to me.

When someone follows me i read their profile and what they have tweered about to see if I want to follow thew,

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Chris — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:20:02 -0000

Good idea. Thanks!

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Ben Tremblay — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:14:30 -0000

It's a good way to increase the number of subscribers, but you really get a bad ratio of following vs followers. Following 8,000 people and having 4,000 followers is not seen as a good thing for a lot of twitter users.

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DrCraigS — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:43:13 -0000

Bust Brain,
I truly don't have an opinion about the merit (or lack of) that many of your respondents seem to have. Boy, people sure get worked up over trivia, don't they? It's been an interesting social experiment; not the first time it's been done either. Some social media trainers are even advocating the 'mass-follow' approach to broadening one's twitterverse. I agree with the advice to those who wish to maintain a closed social circle...enable 'protect my updates.'

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thebusybrain — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:39:29 -0000

LOL! That twitter name has my curiosity -*ahem*- Aroused! ;-)

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Tim Allik — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:34:15 -0000

I'm not pissed off much because let's face it, the stakes are so incredibly low when it comes to Twitter. Twitter likes to think of itself as a sort of earnest communitarianism but in the end (let's be brutally honest here) is mostly raw, unfettered self-promotion. Mr. Busybrain's motives are refreshing because they are so utterly, shamelessly transparent - a rare thing indeed in Twitterland. I do question the quality of your network, however. I see, for example, that you've signed up to follow such esteemed Twitterers as @penis_exercises. Remember, size isn't the only thing that matters when it comes to your Twitterverse.

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thebusybrain — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:33:10 -0000

Tit for Tat is my description for the fact that they follow you back, whether it be by script ( TweetLater.com is a good one ) or by their own will. So, evidently I know exactly what I'm talking about, you just don't know how to accurately interpret what you read.

BTW - I can see just fine! Thanks for stopping by!

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What A Mess You've Created — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:02:42 -0000

I have unfollowed you and blocked anyone connected to you. You clearly don't know the first thing about building a real, substantive network. All you care about is racking up #s. It's spam, it's sleazy and it's the exact opposite of how to effectively use a social networking platform. Oh, and that 'Tit for Tat' as you call it is an auto-follow script. You have know idea what you're talking about. The blind leading the blind. Pathetic.

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sarahatwood — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:54:09 -0000

I can't be mad at a fellow Floridian but I am slightly annoyed. http://www.sarahatwood.net/2008/10/21/tit-for-t...

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darryl ohrt — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:08:35 -0000

BusyBrain:

You're building a wonderful network of spammers. Worse - you're teaching a network of people who want to use a cool new tool how to act like the sleazy used car salesperson at a party.

Have you ever been to a networking event, where someone cruises through the entire room in 7 minutes, hands a biz card to everyone, and considers themselves "networked"? (While the room laughs behind his back)

This is exactly what you're teaching your readers to practice. Twitter doesn't work like the old-school internet tools. You don't 'win' by having more followers. The value of twitter is in the value of what you share, and how you share it. It's certainly not about tweeting every time you've written a blog post.

If I'm on your list, please remove me.

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TheHighLife — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:31:57 -0000

I am not a mom

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George Cozma — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:13:27 -0000

Unfollowing you would be a little hard since I don't follow you to begin with. What you're missing here is the entire point of social networking which is you know... to connect. Keeping the level of your follower base growing at a slow, but steady rate allows you to communicate, network and eventually build a meaningful relation with it.

What you are doing is a mockery of Twitter. And you ARE actually harming something. You are lowering the quality of this medium, which with all its downsides still has a quality way above the par compared with the other social networks.

You might believe that this new influx of followers is helping you, you might believe that you are increasing your exposure, but all that you are managing to do is to transform yourself into a noise source.

As a credit to you though, this entire controversy does have a positive effect on your business, due to the debate it encouraged. This positive effect however will be short lived and none of it will pass on to the users foolish enough to follow your advice.

Karma is still a bitch.

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lemonknickers — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:54:50 -0000

Hi busybrain I think I am on your list, that's fine with me, I was wondering where all the new followers were coming from! - I've been watching other folks twitters and it seems some people aren't so happy with it (I guess they haven't figured twitter is a two way street yet) On youtube they call it "sub4sub" again it's a love, hate thing with people guess this is tweet4tweet!