Today we are going to talk about my third and final method of generating followers on twitter. I have wrote these in the order that I like and use them. My favorite method by far is the Guru method then the FOF method and lastly the “Feeder” method.
The feeder method is very simple, and similar to our other two methods. Except this time we are not going to find people using our twitter account. We are going for what are known as the “Feeders” of twitter. These are the people that have over 100,000 and up to 1 million twitter followers. We are going to use their presence on twitter to better build our presence.
Ready?…Great lets get started:
Head over to
Twitterholic.com, and you will see the top 100 twitterers by sorted by followers. Now we want to find what are known as “feeders” a feeder is basically what we do. We want to feed our follower account with other peoples followers. Feeders are people that actively use twitter as opposed to a non-feeder, would be your people that use the media to get followers. For example if you look at the top twitterers on the list you will see Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres, Britney Spears and CNN, they have all used the media to gain a mass amount of twitter followers. These are known as primas and we do not want to use primas to grow our twitter followers.
What you want to do is click the “friends” column to sort by number of friends. When you do this you will still see that the top 7 – 10 people on twitter are primas, but once you get down below the top 10 you will start to see the friends and follower numbers come more revelent to each other. We are looking for people who have more friends than followers. For example Perry Belcher is a feeder, he is following more people than what is following him. That means he is using the feeder method. Now Perry is a feeder so he would be a good candidate to use to get more followers.
The next thing you want to do is capture their twitter name, you can either write it down or click him to open his twitter page. Once you have his twitter page open, hover your mouse over his latest tweet and to the right you will see a faint star appear, click that. Clicking the star saves that tweet in your favorites, we don’t really care what the tweet was about, we are just basiclly putting him in our favorites so we can come back to him and follow his followers.
You will want to find at least 10 “feeders” to feed off of. That way you are following your alloted 200 people everyday. By doing this method you are going to get followed back, that is what we want right? We want more followers, it is a good bet that most of the people that a feeder followers are already following them back because we can compare those two numbers on twitterholic.com. I hope I haven’t confused too much by using follower and following, if you need help leave me a comment and I will contact you by email.
Moving on, lets go to your twitter account and when you login in you will see on the right 4 links, Home, @yourID, Direct Messages and Favorites. Guess what? If you click on favorites it will bring up all the “feeders” you just saved from twitterholic. Now use your scroll button to open each of them in a new tab. Then just go through click their followers link and follow their most recent followers, only follow thier first page of recent followers.
Ok, that is the feeder method. Now doing this method will not get you targeted followers, but it will increase you follower numbers very quickly and get you exposed to more people using twitter.
A quick tip: Do not follow more than 200 people per day. Doing so can get your account suspended by twitter, granted chances are you account will only be suspended for a week, we all know that taking a week off when trying to build your business or your list can set you back far more than a weeks worth of work.
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