How much time do you spend at Twitter?

Like what I had mentioned in my earlier posts, spending too much of time at Twitter could be extremely harmful to your online business. At the same time it is also important to spend enough time interacting with your followers and increasing your followers count as well.

So how do your balance these activities?

The internet is full of bots that can do these things for you on an autopilot. But you have to be very cautious when you choose them because Twitter is very particular about automated tweeting and such other actions.

Hence it is very important that before you decide to use any of these auto-bots you have to carefully read the TOS at Twitter.

In order to ensure that you do not annoy the legal advisors at Twitter and yet accomplish your requirements, there are certain things that you need to take care off.

Auto Follow – Twitter does not stop you from auto-following people. The only limitation is that you should not do it too aggressively as to annoy Twitter. Be within the limits of following and follow only about 25 people per hour. This frequency is enough to get you a good following too.

Auto-posting – Twitter also allows auto posting messages to Twitter, so that you tweets don’t stop even while you are sleeping. It helps in maintaining freshness in your timeline and you presence is always felt. But there is one thing that you need to ensure – your auto posted messages should not be more than 20 – 25% of your tweets.

Check out my Twitter Stats for the last 15 days -

Do you see the steep rise in my follower count from 4,750 on 19th December 2010 to 7,080 on 17th January 2010? My Twitter activity has increased over the past 2 months and the last month has been exceptionally good. I am able to monetize this follower count at the rate of $0.98 per follower per month.

Now look at the predicted follower count for the next 30 days, which is even more startling.

This says that I will cross the 10,000 follower count in the next 30 days. My Twitter rank as on date is 904 and I am adding about 93 followers on an average per day. That’s quite an achievement for a not-so-famous internet marketer, right?

Would you like to know how I managed to do this?

I have been using a tool called as “Auto Follow Script“. This is an amazing tool in the sense that it does most of your activities on an auto-pilot and yet ensures that you are not violating Twitter’s TOS. At the same time I too, ensure that i am not doing anything in excess. Else I would even have been sitting pretty with more than 10,000 followers. But, what fun is it to have thousands and followers, without you actually featuring in Twitter search results, just because they have banned you due to your extra-aggressive activity.

Features of Auto Follow Script -

A few of the features of the autofollowscript is as follows -

• Follow using keywords, by location, zip code/territory etc.
• Follow another persons followers – Follow people they are following.
• Send out messages to people that follow you. (Auto Follow Script has a built in balancer to even out follows to followers ratio)
• Send out RSS News stories by keywords or, yahoos news feed to add valuable content to your account
• Auto Followback And Send Message
• White List to keep from unfollowing celebrities or, certain people that haven’t followed you back.
• Ability to unfollow all that don’t follow you back with white list or unfollow one person at a time.
• Super Tweets to send out target tweets , You specify how often and how many. Send out auto tweets at different time intervals. Built in Bit.ly and Shorten Url.
• Export and import your tweets. Auto reply to anyone that tweets your name.
• Setup accounts without ever going to twitter.com . Export and import your accounts.
• Download follow list and follower list.

These are just some of the features. There are plenty more that you will never have thought off in your wildest dreams. Tweeting becomes an activity on complete auto-pilot with the help of Auto Follow Script.

If you are interested in increasing your Twitter follower count and monetizing it, then you should order this script today itself. Click here to view more details

In case you do not want to read through the long sales letter, you can order the script directly.

P.S. – For a limited period I  can give you a discount of $5.00 if you buy the Auto Follow Script today. So that means that you will get the script for $40.00 instead of the normal price.

Just send across you order details to discount(at)dkspeaks.com and I will credit your PayPal account with the discount. You need to have a PayPal account in order to get the discount.

Photograph credit -

It was in March 2008 that I had joined Twitter. I never knew Twitter will explode the way it did in the 7-8 months that followed, so I was almost inactive until the end of 2008. It was in the middle of March 2009, that I realized what was happening and jumped into the bandwagon. I regret that I was late into it. Nevertheless, I am still satisfied at the fact that I was not left out.

Twitter and twittering is never too late. Even if you are the latest to join the phenomenon, you will still gain from it, such is the power of Twitter. All that you need to do is the right things. Do not waste unnecessary energy and time at Twitter. Rather, follow a proven and established method and you will see the results.

But, what is the proven and established method that I am talking about?

This blog was oriented towards helping people know about Twitter. My objective with this blog was to create awareness about this extremely powerful 140 character tool and in expressing the ways in which it could help you make the most of the Internet.

There are quite a few tools that I spoke to you about, many of which were automated tweeting and following tools. You might have noticed the term “automated” in the above sentence.

Why do we need automation at Twitter?

Twitter is vast. It is about following, getting followed and tweeting and reading tweets. Spending a lot of time at Twitter could prove a disaster to your business or, other online activities. Hence it is important to ensure that you spend minimal time at Twitter, yet get the maximum results. This is basically what Twitter API has helped achieve.

When I started I had a dismal following of about 10-12 followers. I kept trying hard and spent quite a good amount of time trying to get followed but with zero results.

Check out below statistics from Twitter Counter -

I had just a little above 4,000 followers in the month of September, which grew to almost 6,500 followers in the month of November. Unfortunately I am unable to show you the stats prior to this. My follower count grew from a mere 1,300 followers in July to 4,000 in September. One aspect that you need to bear in mind is the fact that these are all targetted followers based on specific keywords focused on a niche that I do business in. Today I earn about $0.63 per follower per month, that too with minimal work and effort.

Wondering how all this was possible?

Automation – is the answer. It is a few tools that automate the entire process of tweeting and acquiring followers that has helped me get this.

Let’s talk a bit about these tools -

Tweetadder – This has been my favorite tool. The things that this tool does is un-imaginable. There is no other tool out there that can even match half of what Tweetadder does. Some of the things that it does is -

• Increase Twitter and Site Traffic to your event, charity, service, business, band, or website.
• Find Like Minded Twitter Followers in Seconds
• Auto Follow up to 1000 Targeted Profiles per Day
• Get up to 500 new twitter followers per day per profile
• Multiple Accounts, Unlimited Twitter Profiles & Chaining
• Automate Twitter Posts, Scheduled Tweets, Stay active without actually being active
• Automate Scheduled Direct Messages
• Auto Unfollow, VIP Safe List
• Best Twitter Search, including Global Location and Multi Language Searches
• Set it and Forget It! Runs Daily, Automatically

What I achieved was just a minimalist use of this tool. Had I used it to the fullest potential, my follower count would have gone out of the roof.

Tweetadder, at the price that it is available at, can recoup your cost in just under a week.

You can order the software from Tweeting Tips here.

Auto Follow Script – This is yet another script that runs quitely on your computer and adds targetted followers to your Twitter account. It is extremely user-friendly and is very easy to use. I often run it and forget it and it keeps adding followers to my account. Two of my twitter profiles that I had started about less than a month back already have more than 3,000 followers in it and I am now monetizing it.

A few features of this script are as follows -

• Unfollowed users are flagged so that you do not re-follow them.
• Ability to unfollow anyone that does not follow you back.
• Auto Follow Twitter Users — Fully Control Twitter following with Max # of follows per day.
• Auto Unfollow — Unfollow users who do not follow back within a set time frame.
• Random Time Delay Settings — You choose what time intervals between follows, unfollows.
• Steal followers from other users.

If you are worried if these activities are unethical and could ban you from Twitter, then trust me you are absolutely wrong. All of these are ethical and within the TOS of Twitter.

You can order Auto Follow Script here.

There could be many other tools that could do these things for you, but I found that these two were the most economical and easiest tools available. If you know about any other tools, do not forget to mention about them in the comments below.

Twitter is about building followers. What use is your Twitter profile, if all you are doing is following people and you have no followers.

A few days back I was at a website that provided extremely valuable information. I liked the website so much that I thought I would subscribe to the feeds. I also commented there and replied to a few comments that people had posted. While I was exiting, I suddenly noticed a pop-up. It was not intrusive. It asked me to follow the author. Since I was already in love with the content at the website, I had no problems filling in my details there and agreeing to follow the author.

After I exited the website, I was very curious to know what this thing was. I started researching on such a software or, script that I could find and I stumbled upon this amazing script called as “Exit Tweet generator”.

Without waiting for a minute, I bought the script and installed it in 2 of my websites that were focused on some extreme niches. In about 3 days, I found that my follower count had increased by almost 135%, thanks to “Exit Tweet Generator”.

What is Exit Tweet Generator?

Exit Tweet Generator is a PHP script that can be installed in your websites. It generates a pop-up when your visitors are about to exit your website, asking them to sign-up to follow you. This script in a way, prompts your readers to follow you in case they liked your website or, blog and the posts and articles in it.

A pop-up script is often considered as an intrusion to free internet browsing.  Exit Tweet generator, gives you a variety of options to customize your pop-up so that it doesn’t become an intrusion.

Not all of your readers would be aware of your Twitter profile or, you tweets. Hence it is normal for them to ignore the sidebar widget and exit your website. But you would want to maintain a long term association with your readers. Exit Tweet Generator is a way of doing this.

You can order your copy of Exit Tweet Generator here. Don’t forget to comment about your opinion. That way you would also gain a backlink to your website.