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.

What is the relevance of “Unfollowing“, when Twitter is all about “Following“?

Is that your question? It was mine too, till about some time back, when one day I realized, I am unable to accept any new followers. You are still confused as to what am I saying?

We will come to that point in some time. In one of my posts earlier, I had mentioned about blocking people who would spam me. There was an even better option of disallowing people to spam me. It was by “unfollowing” them.

So, you are wondering as to what is the difference between “Un-following” and “Blocking”. Right?

Let me explain it to you -

Blocking – This action restricts a person from sending you any more tweets but he still features in your followers list.

Un-following – This action removes the person from your followers list, thereby restricting his tweets from being visible to you and from clogging your dashboard.

You might be wondering the need to un-follow people. Why couldn’t they just be left there? When there is an option to block people, what is the need to un-follow?

Why would you want to unfollow somebody?

Twitter has a unique strategy to keep spammers and bulk followers from crashing their systems. Twitter has imposed a limit on certain aspects of using Twitter. Just check out the following -

• 1,000 updates per day
• 1,000 direct messages per day
• 100 API requests per hour
• Follow limit

The last point up there means that they set a follow limit to your account. This limit is set to 2000. So when your account has 2000 followers less than the number of people you are following, your account will freeze and you will not be able to add any more followers.

In a way this is a very useful tool. Why would you want to follow somebody who is not following your updates? Even if the other person is a celebrity, you would only want to follow him/her if they ar adding value to your tweets. Else, what is the reason? This is where “Un-following” comes in handy.

How do you un-follow people in bulk if, the number of such people are huge? This, indeed could be a difficult proposition. But Twitter is a technology that has can help resolve any problem.

The following are a few tools that can help you do this -

TwitIn -This is by far the best tool. It ha a very user-friendly interface and good features. You can bulk follow (they call it “Reciprocate’) or, un-follow people (which they can ‘Flush’). Extremely fast servers and a cool feature to increase your follower count as well.

FlashTweet – This is also a very useful tool. It has the same features as TwitIn except that here you just cannot increase your follower count by adding random tweeters. You can choose a friend’s name and all his followers will be added to your following kist (a maximum of 100 users). But its is extremely useful.

Twitter Karma – This is by far the best tool and it is free. You can bulk follow people and also un-follow them. It shows a list of people who are “only following” you and whom you are “only following”. The only problem with it is that their servers are quite slow. One can understand that with the kind of user following that Twitter has.

Huitter – This is again a similar tool but the only constraint is that it will un-follow or, follow without prompting you. This means that Huitter does not give you the option to choose which non followers to unfollow. Once you enter your twitter username and password, all those that are not following you are unfollowed. Hence, if there are any discrepancies in this app then you might end up unfollowing those who follow you.

Use any of the above tools as per you choice and comfortability.