For some sites, they will simply continue to offer the same auto-follow service that they always have, but for the users of this service, you will have to have a new login and then store your twitter credentials on their website for future use.   This is looked at as a security risk to many, however most of the early twitter services all operated on this basis.  This is a change that needed to come very soon, as more and more users were using services to make their accounts look more popular than they actually were. The twitter autofollow also lead to many spam accounts that took away from the value of the whole site and Twitters integrity.

You will notice at many of the most popular services that used to offer an auto follow service, that these features have been removed altogether or now you must single click on every user you wish to follow.  These services are still very valid and useful for those who wish to grow their twitter account. Most of these twitter services allow you to search for people in ways that you cannot within the Twitter website.  This alone can be worth using these third party twitter services to make sure that you find new and relevant tweeps to follow.  If you are working a marketing system using twitter, finding people that have similar interests to your topic or niche is a must, so these services can offer Internet marketers a lot of value in this field.

So moving forward without auto-follow on twitter may seem like a drag to some, but it is what it is.  Now, moving forward some may have to change their mass follow strategy or simply do it the old fashioned way, one click at a time!

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So, if you like this new feature you should make sure to have your voice heard and chime in on the site to let the owners know that you want it to stay.  If not let em know all the same, twitter is a community based site and your voice does count!

What Is The Twitter List?

The twitter list is nothing more than a group on twitter.  You can create a new twitter list from your account and add who ever you like to it, this seems to be a new way to create miniature focus groups on your account.  This new feature adopts the same “one way follow” ability that twitter has created with there original site.  You get a new extension type web address that includes the name of your group in the address to keep it juicy for the search engines.  People can follow your list without being invited, unless you mark it as private, then you get total control over who is there and who is not.

How Do I Get More Follower By Making A Twitter List

OK..OK you may not get more followers exactly, but this new feature definitely gives you an opportunity to get more people viewing your tweets and raises your syndication power on the twitter site and off.  By this we believe you can use this new tool to assist in the growth of your twitter following to an astronomical amount.

Want even more twitter followers?

Check out this Squidoo Lens: Newbie Twitter Tips

My Twitter Tactics First Twitter List

We decided to join the party by making our own twitter list.  We did not know where to start so we just created on that includes some of our followers on twitter.   You can find out Twitter Tactics Friends list here.  Feel free to follow the list or follow us!

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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Why Having A Gazillion Followers Will Not Make You an Automatic Success on Twitter

The number of people following you really has nothing to do with your success or lack there of on twitter.  This has to be the biggest misconseption of new Twitter marketers that I have run across to date.  I know everybody loves to see big numbers under their name, but when it comes down to it, these numbers mean a lot more if you know how you got them.

By this I mean, if you go jump on every viral Twitter Follower site you come across, 2 things happen:

1. You are folling the same people, everybody who went to that site is following everybody who went to that site!  Does that make you have more pull with these people?  No, not at all and in fact, probably less.  People going to these sites are looking for one thing and that is followers, they have no interest in you or what you are tweeting about.
2. You have now effectively taken away what ever good name you had on twitter by filling your tweets with spam from these sites.  Most of these sites send out a rediculus ammount of self serving messages.  Do you really want to promote the same junk?  I hope not.

Twitter Follower : Quality Over Quantity

The ONLY way to get more results from your twitter following, is to assure that you are adding people who know you or at least have similar interest.  Adding a “Follow Me” link on your main web site or blog is a great way to get real interested followers, because these followers have already seen your site and know what to expect and in most cases will be hungry for the information you are sharing.  If you are on many social networks, let all your friends and fans on all these sites know how to follow you on twitter as well, these will become quality followers as well.

If you only build your following by automated resources, you will have built a pretty weak army, there are some follow systems that allow you to choose topics of interest and these fall in the middle in my mind.

Twitter Testing and Results

Just to assure myself that I was not just blowing smoke with this post, I recently setup a few accounts on twitter.  I setup 2 that I hand picked the followers, make direct contact with each and built the way I suggest you do and I setup 2 accounts with autofollow twitter followers only.  I am sure you can guess the results and in this case the 90/10 rule really did prove itself.

I send out one promo tweet each day to all accounts, among other real messages.  I saw only about 10% the number of clickthroughs come from my auto follow accounts.   If you are an internet marketer trying to use twitter to get clicks and get paid, I think you get the picture.

Taking the time to grow your twitter account really does pay off!  If you want big numbers, go auto follow til you hearts content, but don’t expect these guys to pay the bills for you!

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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Get Paid For Using Twitter

Hello Fellow Twitter Users!

Nick Simpson here, I know that there is one thing that all twitter users want and that is “More Followers!” There have been many auto follow services pop up in the last few months and it is rummered that twitter is to do away with auto-follow in the near future. I think that this is a great idea, because most of these so called “viral autofollow” services are bunch of crap any way. They let everybody that is part of the system follow each other and nobody pays any attention to each others tweets, thus defeating the purpose of having a large following in the first place.

What is Auto Follow?

For those of you who are new to twitter, autofollow is a method of obtaining new followers automatically, either by using a twitter api or a website that is setup to match up twitter users by forcing one to follow another.  There are a few different ways these systems actually function, the problem with most, is that they do not give you the option to follow folks of similar interest, so you usually end up with thousands of followers who could care less about what your twitter messages are, but you have a lot of followers!

Targeted Auto Following On Twitter

Targeted auto following is what most people are really looking to do with their twitter account, but most people do not know how to do this automatically, so I have put together a list below to help out. There are some sites that I really do approve of the auto-follow methods that they use and they are as follows:

1. Twollo

2. Twollow

3. Twellow

The Organic Twitter Auto Follow Method – By Nick Simpson

So you want the best of both worlds huh.  You want to automate the growth of your twitter account and at the same time you want to have some laser like targeting to only attract followers that are actually interested in what you share and are interested in the same topics or niche that you work with.  Well, here it is the “Organic Twitter Auto Follow Method” and it’s pretty sweet!

It will take a little time to setup and run, however this methodology will produce a very refined and reputable group of followers for you no matter what niche or field you are in.

Step 1

To start off with you need to know who you are looking for, so much like an seo project, you need to get keywords ready that are interesting to folks that you want to follow.

Step 2

Get a Free Twitter Video Page setup with a welcome message saying, hello, this is what I am about, follow me if you are interested.  Make sure to tell everyone at the end of the video to “click the red X at the top of the page and then they can use the follow button on the left” in your message.

Step 3

Now, you can either start passing this link out on all your social networks and start getting response, or you can even add a link to this page on your own website, but if you want to automate this process, this is what I do.

Setup your twitter video welcome page on a few traffic exchanges!

Here are my personal top 3 as far as results go:

1. Traffic Swarm – Guys this is simply the best out there, hands down.

2. Easy Hits 4 U – This traffic exchange is one of the fastest growing out there and I have received many new followers from here.

3. Traffic G – We have had more response in the last 2 months from this traffic program than any other that we participate in.

Now all you need to do is add your twitter video page here and spend 5-10 minutes a day and you will be very surprised with the results, I promise!

Is it totally automatic, not really, but does it produce a vast following of hungry information seekers in any industry, YES!

The biggest difference in the results you will see from using this method, exspecially if you have more than one account, is that you will not be following the same people everywhere, the folks that are now following you “will respond” to your twitter messages and best of all your account will not be seen as spam.

I hope you grow a huge twitter following and enjoy the power of twitter marketing and profits!

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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