Twitter is about following like-minded people.

That is right! But the irony of the story is that it is not how Twitter is interpreted by most of the Twitterers. Today, Twitter is about showing off, the count of followers that you have and since there is a follower-to-following ratios that Twitter employs, twitterers know that they have to have followers and followings as well.

It is here that the race for generating more number of followers have started. And this race has turned ugly now. People blindly follow others and they in turn return the favor by following. There is no more a common interest between the followed and the follower.

Most of the application that you see today are targetting this objective and hence there is no relevance to the kind of people being followed. All applications focus on only one thing – that is generate followers.

But there is this service called as “Twollo” with a difference. Twollo is different in the sense that it identifies common interests that you have with other Twitterers and then helps you follow them.

What is “Twollo”?

Twollo is different. Twollo is an ajax based application that helps you identify Twitterers with common interests as you and then put an auto-follow instruction so that you do not have to manually keep following people with the same interests.

All you have to do is login to Twollo with you Twitter username password. Then you can setup key-terms that signify your interests – like marketing, article writing etc. You can also set a limit to the maximum number of people you want to follow. This is very important because mass following can be considered as spamming by Twitter and your accounts may be blocked. Twollo will then work in the background for you. It will identify such Twitterers who share common interests based on the key-terms that you have set and automatically follow them, thus increasing your presence on Twitter.

You might be wondering if this is a sales-pitch.

Don’t worry, it isn’t one.

Twollo doesn’t cost anything. It is a free service, though it has an upgrade available for a charge. But its free service is more than useful and you will not have to upgrade to use any of the above said features.

Then what are your waiting for? Just logon to Twollo and start making your presence felt all over the internet.

P.S. Twollo stores your Twitter information for it to work in the background.

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How are you adding new followers to your Twitter account?

Twitter is now the talk of the town. Every internet marketer or, internet surfer has something to say about Twitter. You presence on Twitter is now counted by the number of followers you have on Twitter. But are you able to add enough followers? Is the follower count a status symbol? If yes, then where are you on it?

The easiest way to get followers on Twitter is by asking them to follow you in case they liked your profile and your contribution. This obviously means publicizing you profile. How will you do this?

The answer is “Twitter buttons”. There are a range and variety of Twitter buttons available on the internet, which you can use on your blogs or, websites. If you are running a blog on the WordPress platform, it is very simple. Just copy and paste the code into a text widget for your sidebar. In case you are not on WordPress, then you need to copy and paste the code into the HTML of your webpage, which is also not very difficult. But all that you need to ensure is that your button is at a place where it is visible to your visitors.

Here is a list of such buttons available on the internet -

My Buttons – There are two different buttons that I use on my blogs and which I like very much.

This is a design I like the most and looks sobre and cool. I do not know who was the creator of this design ( in case you know it, do let me know so that I can credit it to them)

Just right-click and save the button in case you wish to use this. Else you may just copy and paste the code below:

(<a href=”http://www.twitter.com/your_twitter_name><img title=”twitter_follow_me” src=”http://www.tweetingtip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/twitter_follow_me_small.png” alt=”twitter_follow_me” width=”179″ height=”78″ border=”0″ /></a>)

This design is one that I created with a bit of idea from here and there. But I love this design, more so because there a bit of my hard word put into it.

You may use this design as you wish. (A bit of credit to me will be good). You can just save the image and upload it to your server or use the code below:

(<a href=”http://www.twitter.com/your_twitter_name><img title=”twitterfollow” src=”http://www.tweetingtip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/twitterfollow4a.gif” alt=”twitterfollow” width=”200″ height=”125″ border=”0″ /></a>)

Web Design by mts – They have about 10 different Twitter follow me icons to offer.  Though the website is Non-English, you would not face any difficulty in understanding the download rules.

Twit Buttons – My personal favorite because they have a variety of buttons to offer. It is extremely easy to use the buttons because all you have to do is copy and paste  the html code provided.

My Social Buttons – This is another place where you can find some innovative and beatiful “Twitter follow me” buttons. Though the buttons are only a few, it is different and looks cool.

Randa Clay buttons – This website offers a collection of about 18 buttons which is again very simple and professional. Nice instructions as well.

Siah Designs – Josiah Jost has a list of very good and useful Twitter buttons. There is also an option of personalization for a small fee.

Vincent Abry buttons – It is a collection of 31 Twitter buttons and the collection is very good and different from the normal buttons.

Go ahead, and add one of these buttons on your blog and add followers to your Twitter account.

In the next post we will be discussing the basic rules of following and rejecting.