Twitter Helper

There are millions of folks using Twitter actively. Obviously, the main purpose is to use Twitter as a simplified communication tool/medium. But for some it's more than that. By building a huge list of followers and by sharing your knowledge or something interesting/worthwhile with them, you can turn your twitter account into virtual cash tree!



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@web2marketer tweeted once: Twitter Marketing Tip: It's not about how many Twitter followers you have...the only thing that matters is "are they listening?"

It doesn't matter if you've millions of followers or just few hundred followers in your list. It does matter the way you communicate with them. Think like this: If no one listen or respond on what you've to say/tweet, then it's almost impossible to benefit from it. People have to click on the link you tell them to click. Then only you've a better chance of earning real bucks as a result of your Twitter activities.

Here are the simple steps to success in Twitter monetization:

1. Attract Followers (an audience) by communicating with them on a regular basis. (List of 10000 followers is good enough to get 100s of clicks to your desired link)

2. Win the trust of your Followers (your viewing audience) by sharing your knowledge or interesting/worthwhile things and by giving away freebies (may be a marketing gift!). Direct message for one-to-one communication / Re-tweet their messages / Thank them for their help. Add value for your followers (aka) your future visitors. If you have earned the trust of your Twitter Followers, revenue is certain to follow.

3. Advertise to your Twitter Followers list (Slow and steadily). But never over do the ads. Blend the ads in between your useful tweets (May be something like this, 50 regular tweets : 1 Ad).

It may look as simple as that. But the implementation part is very tough. As you practice more and more in this fashion, rest assure! you're there for enormous Twitter monetization success.

There are times you need to check your twitter followers/following ratio to counter the 'Follow limit' restriction placed by twitter for reducing user/system abuse. Everyone is allowed to follow 2000 people. After that, follow limits are based on the number of people who are following you. i.e. the Followers/Following ratio must be equal to (or) greater than 1 (one). Say you're following 2000 people, but only have 1500 followers, means you can't follow any more people until you get your Followers/Following ratio right. There are only 2 ways to get this right:

A) Make other people follow you (by updating your twitter timeline with quality tweets, by re-tweeting other people's tweet, by inviting anyone you know to join you as a follower). But, this'll be tough I know.

B) Better way to do tackle this problem is by cutting away people who're not following you back (but still in your following list) or by leaving away people with no account activity for months or even weeks. If you've reached a follow limit, you can help yourself by reducing your following number until it resembles your followers number. Since the follow limit is based on Followers/Following ratio rather than time, you'll have to un-follow people before you're able to follow again.

But there ain't a easy way to track the user who's not following you back or with less or no account activity over time. But there is a simple, free website/application helps you to do this fairly effortlessly. It's named FriendOrFollow. You can also find out who's following you that you're not following back.



All you've to do is: Enter your twitter user name in FriendOrFollow and click 'Submit' button. You'll taken to the page where you can see who you're following (but not followed back by them), who're your fans/followers (but not followed by you) and who're your friends (means mutually following). You can also list the users by their user name, name, location, followers/following numbers, last tweet, account age tags. To tackle the twitter follow limit problem, you just have to click the 'Following' tab and double click (or open in new window/tab) the user you like to remove/un-follow. That's it. This page is updated in real time. So the results are showing in your twitter profile instantly. Enjoy!

Twitter's new kid on the block: FastFollowers - A Virtual marketplace for followers.

If you're desperately looking for a way to build your twitter follower base, here is the nice little site that will do the trick for you.

All you've to do is:

i) Enroll yourself at FastFollowers

ii) Earn credits for following people (Usually from 2 to 5, up-to 10 allowed)

iii) In return, you'll get followers for your earned credits (Tip: You can set the credit limit: as usual 0 to 10. "4" worked fine for me)

Here's a little illustration provided by them:



That's it. Simple but effective. With little time and effort, you can increase  your twitter followers base quickly as well as consistently and more importantly ethically. Icing on the cake: It's completely free too (Optional: You may buy credits or get "Featured user slot for a day" - Only if you don't want to follow people).

Get in and reap the benefits.

More details about this program can be found at their FAQ section.

Note: Only today morning I enrolled on this site and already get 50 odd followers. Needless to say, I already took the "Blog about them Offer" too to get 100 credits!

Twitter is a popular multi-functional (Social networking, Instant messaging and Micro-blogging - All in One) service that helps it's users to connect with their family/friends/colleagues instantly, in real time.

What do you have to do?

~ Create your Twitter account

~ Follow the people you love, meet new friends and get followers of your own...

~ Update in your web box "What are you doing at the moment?" (limited to: 140 characters in length, called "tweets") and let your contacts (followers) know. You may get to know what they're doing in your own tweet board (time line). That is following each other.

To getting to know "Twitter" better, please refer to the official Twitter Support FAQ.

By the way, I'm twittering at http://twitter.com/arkarthick - You can click 'Follow' (under my name) in my profile and get my tweets/or update me with yours.