Free Twitter Account Backup – Cool!

December 13th, 2009

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twitter-account-backupHere again with a review of a third party twitter service and this time we have really found a cool one. I know that there seems to be about a million different apps to help you view, manipulate and control your twitter account, but this is the first ever to allow you to backup your twitter account! I don’t know how important all the tweets you send out are, but if you have ever wanted to look back and see what others have send you there is no better way than using this absolutely free twitter tool.

Tweetake Allows users to login to twitter and then back up all of there account data. The output file is created as an easy to use Excel .csv file, so if you have MS Office, OpenOffice.org or pretty much any other office program in the world you can view all your followers, messages and friends in one spreadsheet. No more scrolling and scrolling on twitter and waiting for twitter to quit timing out. Just download your info and your on your way!

There are so many twitter apps out there these days, we are always surprised when we run across another one that was actually helpful, useful and free.  This twitter app may not be for everybody, but it sure is a great service for those who will use it.

Get More Twitter Followers With Your Own Twitter List

November 6th, 2009

twitter-listWell here at My Twitter Tactics we are always trying to bring twitter news and of course twitter tips and tactics to our readers. We know we are a little late on this one, but we wanted to address the new twitter “list” feature all the same.  We are not sure if twitter will keep the Twitter List around forever, for right now it is still in beta and they are looking for as much feedback as they can get to see if users are interested in it becoming a permanent fixture on the site or not.

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.

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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

How Many Twitter Followers Do You Have? Who Cares!

August 12th, 2009

quality twitter followersYes, I know that the title of this article is bold and almost rude.   That is the point!  Many people on twitter think that having 10,000 twitter followers or more is going to make them money, make them important or even make them an authority on Twitter.  This is so far from the truth it is actually a lauchable matter.

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

Nick’s 20 Dollar Twitter Trick

July 25th, 2009
What Is the 20 Dollar Twitter Trick?

Yep, the $20 dollar twitter trick, is not really a trick, just some fast ways to make a big difference in the way you use twitter and if done right make some good money from doing what you are already doing on the twitter network.  You may not even use your twitter account for marketing and this will still work!

There are a lot of twitter systems out there that cost upward of 200 dollars and many that cost about 20 dollars, hence the video name. However, many of these systems only show you how to use free websites that you can go to yourself, so watch the video and start clicking the links below to start rockin twitter!

I have personally used this method to start producing automatic checks without doing anything but setting up this system and have already been paid by the company listed below, so I can assure you, it works.

20 Dollar Twitter Trick Video


20 Dollar Twitter Trick Resource Links:

More Twitter Tactics: This is another great twitter resource site that offers many free twitter tools and tips.

RevTwt: This is the site that will let you make money on twitter just like using adsense, you can set it to post ads daily on auto-pilot all you have to do is grow your following and tweet once and a while and you Will Make Money On Twitter!

Tweetlater: Using this site you can automatically follow people back that follow you on twitter and also send a welcome message automatically to all new twitter followers, really cool and it’s free!

To Success,

Nick Simpson

Twitter Organic Auto-Follow Method – By Nick Simpson

July 25th, 2009

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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