This week, we went from 34 twitter followers to 1585. Granted this isn’t a major feat for some marketing companies who, using scripting techniques are able to collect thousands of twitter followers an hour. BUT, the main difference between our accomplishment and their daily occurrence is that all of our users have tweeted about information related to our blog and our company.

So how did we accomplish this feat? Simple, we used an application called tweet spinner http://tweetspinner.com/70914771. With tweet spinner you can set up keyword following and user mimicking to target twitter users who would be interested in your blog or your organization. We don’t think that tweet spinner should be used as a way aid spammers, but rather as a tool to effectively tell people about what you do and how you could help them.

Now, like we said tweet spinner offers several helpful tools such as keyword following (which allows you to automatically follow users who tweet about a specific keyword) and user mimicking (which allows you to follow all the friends or followers of another twitter user). But, like we said you don’t want to spam people so what is the best way to use this tool?

1. Find twitter accounts that are already established that relate to your organization.

users we mimicked

Finding people to model yourself after should be part of your day to day life anyway. Who better to mimic than someone who is already where you want to be. We selected 4 twitter users who were in the same field that we were, who were already established, after a week almost 40% of users we followed followed us back, talk about reciprocity!

2. Keyword following

With keyword following you follow users who have tweeted about topics that relate to your organization (up to 40 at a time). As you can see some users were more interested in our blog than others, and you’ll have to play around with this. This information serves two purposes. First, and most obviously, it helps you target specific keywords, but it also tells you who your target market should be in other ventures, it helps to know what sort of people are interested in you.

Don’t Over-Do it!

Don’t go too crazy, twitter does have a follow limit of 2000 follows (unless you yourself have more than ~1800 followers in which case your follow limit is about 10% more than the number of followers you have). Also, you can’t follow more than 1000 people per day, so don’t try it. One final note, spammers are bad people don’t be one, twitter and karma will punish you.

We’re really liking twitter, especially now that we have so many people to talk to. Twitter isn’t completely about numbers, it is about the relationships that you can create with other people in your industry, but tweet spinner is an excellent tool to help you find people who are interested in the same things you are. Be kind to to twitter community and they’ll be kind to you.

Regards,

Adam Haney

Chief Developer

Casa Nova Designs

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