How to get Thousands of New Twitter Followers with EASE

I spent a lot of time researching Twitter because I knew I could get more benefit from Twitter than I was receiving. I knew I could get more twitter followers to learn from and share with in the Twitter community.

First I learned about www.HootSuite.com, which is a great FREE Twitter software tool that allows you to post not only to Twitter but you can add Facebook, LinkedIn and Ping.fm. Have you ever visited Ping.fm? Their service allows you to create 30 social network and social bookmarking accounts and link Ping to them so you can create one post that will go to all those sites automatically.

Once you have your social networking and bookmarking accounts created you can then link your Hootsuite account to Ping.fm, which will allow you to make one post in Hootsuite, which will allow you to create many posts and then schedule them to be sent out in the future.

These are great tools to get started in Twitter but there are some flaws. The biggest flaw to me is that you can get a lot of people to follow you, build a Twitter community and do it semi-automatically but how do you un-follow people? When you add people that do not want to follow you back you may want to remove them from your list. If you've attempted this you know it is not enjoyable and maybe you did not even want to complete the project. This caused me to investigate automated Twitter Software that would take care of many of my Twitter tasks.

The value of Twitter Marketing Software is multifaceted and I will list them for you. There are a lot of Twitter programs and I want to offer you a list of the features that I believe are necessary after my research and now I know by experience.

How to find targeted followers

Look for software that will allow you to search for the right followers by keywords, profile data, location or who they are following or who is following them.

Export/Import options

I learned a long time ago to make sure easy backup options are programmed in to the software or in the worst case, the back up is locating an XML file that is easy to locate and save to a folder on your computer.

Add new Twitter followers

Adding new people you want to follow should be as easy as clicking one button to send a number of tweets and better yet, there is an option in the program to automate all your follows so you don't even have to do this part. Make sure it is Twitter auto follow software.

Unfollowing Twitter Accounts

As I mentioned before if you have ever tried to determine which accounts you want to unfollow because they are not reciprocating the follow you know it is very tedious and not worth the time you would have to invest. The software you get should perform this task automatically. After configuring the Twitter software I purchased and letting it run it was exciting. The software would follow and unfollow people for me. Post tweets, reply to messages and more all automatically. The Twitter program I use allows you to configure it to set a time that you allow people to follow you back or else the program will automatically unfollow them. Sweet.

Safelist

A good program will have a safelist that will enable you to make a list of people that would not get unfollowed in case a mistake is made during operation.

Messages

Being able to automate your messages is a big time saver. This means when someone follows you your software will automatically send him or her a "thank you for the follow" message. You will be able to use the messaging component of the software to broadcast a message to your Twitter community. If you think you will need to attach files or music make sure you have that option in the software that you purchase.

Tweets

Make sure the Twitter desktop software that you purchase will allow you to set up your tweets and post them automatically to your Twitter wall. You want to make sure you can load a file with all your Tweets as well as export that list in case you update it manually in the Twitter software. There are marketing approached to using multiple lists on a rotation so you are not posting the same material over and over for your followers. Strategy is a whole other topic that I will cover in the future. Some Twitter software will allow you to post your tweets from your list and remove them as they are posted on a pre-determined schedule or you may be able to set the program to post your tweets in random order and then to be deleted as they are tweeted or to have the list keep rotating. This way you will have a list of tweets being posted all day for you automatically. Without a doubt a good program will allow you to manually post tweets to your Twitter account.

Replies

The Twitter software you choose should also have the option to set up automatic replies to people that Tweeted you.

Compatibility

Not all Twitter applications are Mac compatible so if you work on a Mac this is an important detail. I run Mac OS so I found Twitter software for Mac.

Conclusion: If you really want to have a good community of Twitterers it is an absolute necessary to find the right Twitter application for you.

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