I signed up for Twitter around this time last year as part of an attempt to use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to make more money online through social network marketing.
After gaining thousands of Facebook friends (which was a pain to achieve) my first account was banned by Facebook: if you requested friends at a high rate you’d get a warning. Stop requesting friends for a while and the warning goes away and you can request more friends. Despite listening to those warnings my account was locked (still is)!
Signed up for a new Facebook account, but didn’t make any friend requests (probably have 10 friends now). Do have 2 Facebook groups about AdSense Secrets and SEO Secrets with hundreds of members, but not doing anything with them as fell out with Facebook 
At that time I also signed for Twitter, Follow me on Twitter started following related people (about 50 in total) but because of the Facebook problems got bored of social network marketing and forgot about it for about 10 months and did some real work.
Twitter Marketing Resurfaces
Signed in to my Twitter account late last month and found I had 300 followers!
Hmm, thought maybe I can no something with this after all. Used the Twitter search for friends box using keywords I’m interested in like: SEO, WordPress, AdSense, Money…. and when I found someone with similar interests followed them. I then followed the last 20 people who followed them (just the first page of their followers) and went to the next person on the Twitter search list.
In this way I was following people who had an interest in the sorts of stuff I’m interested in. Since I didn’t want to waste too much time on Twitter I’d follow 40 to 100 people at a time and go do some real work
Now because almost all the people I was following had recently followed someone else it meant they would know quite quickly I had followed them (there’s going to be a lot of inactive Twitter accounts, you don’t want to follow them).
I did this for about 2 weeks every few days, maybe following 500-1,000 people in total (I didn’t put a lot of effort into this really) and didn’t take much time at all. Each time I logged in I’d also check for new people following me on Twitter and follow them in return. Occasionally I’d post an update, usually linking to one of my articles.
Within the 2 week period I was followed by well over 1,000 people on Twitter and I was following a similar amount (I followed pretty much anyone who followed me except the obvious porn Twitter accounts).
I stopped searching for new people to follow about 2 weeks ago and logged in to Twitter every couple of days to check for new followers and would follow them, but no longer actively looked for more people to follow.
Right now I have over 2,000 followers on Twitter, 1,700+ of which was gained in under 1 month!
It would appear now I have over 1,000 Twitter followers there no real need to look for more as every day I have new followers, today I had 2 new pages (40 new Twitter followers).
I did some research on auto following Twitter followers, so when someone follows me I automatically follow them. I found various sites offering Twitter software that will auto follow, but apparently Twitter doesn’t like this, so I’m not going to auto follow (sucked when I lost my Facebook account!).
What I noticed about this auto Twitter software is they tend to also offer what I was doing, auto follow the first page of Twitter followers that you point the software at.
What this means is if you are regularly following/being followed by other Twitter users then those looking to follow/be followed will find you.
I plan to keep following those who follow me on Twitter and see how it goes.
What to Do With 2,000+ Twitter Followers?
Now I have over 2,000 Twitter followers what do I do with them?
The most obvious is to add small updates as I have been doing (about 10 this month) and link to relevant articles/products I promote. I hate the hard sell type marketing, if a product is worth buying it should all but sell itself (I’m brilliant at SEO, but useless at marketing ).
I added a Twitter widget to the menu of my WordPress Themes Site and will probably add the Twitter widget to other sites.
Would be very interested to hear how others are using Twitter to make money?
If you are interested in the sort of stuff I’m interested in (SEO, AdSense, WordPress Themes, Making Money Online, Affiliate Marketing etc… ) feel free to Follow me on Twitter and I’ll follow you in return.
David Law
7 responses to What is Twitter Marketing?
Twitter is squidoo 2 that is, salesmen selling salesmen; or, myspace 2 cool people hanging out (draining productive time I could be making money). Traffic does not convert in my experience but maybe I am wrong and someone is a Twitter millionaire. I am open to Twitter if it can yield income, very open.
What is Twitter Marketing?
I have over 2,500 followers on Twitter and made just 27 tweets with most linking to my theme site, not just to the themes for sale, but good info page like a free WordPress SEO tutorial. I have not noticed an increase in sales, I wouldn’t with only 4 visitors from Twitter this month and my Twitter page is a PR3!
Nice waste of PR!
Yesterday made a Tweet about my first free AdSense only theme. No traffic from that and with all those followers you’d expect a few click thrus. Looks like 99% of people who use Twitter are trying to sell/promote something, well I’m not looking to buy anything via Twitter and I don’t have the time to send out loads of Tweets, so waste of time so far.
Guess I could setup 20 or 30 automated Tweets, (have seen sites online offering the ability to send out Tweets) and forget about it. when I’ve looked at the Tweets I get from others 99.99% are from people trying to sell me something, pretty much SPAM the crap out of your followers!
David Law
What is Twitter Marketing?
i really love to use Twitter. i was addicted to Blogging before the birth of Twitter. Now i am addicted to Twitter.
i just love Twittering compared to blogging. i was a blog addict and now i am a Twitter addict.
Twitter is the newest craze today. i tweet at least 5 times a day on my friends just to keep them informed about my whereabouts. I still keep my personal blog though.
Hi David thank you for sharing your Facebook and Twitter adventures, I believe you do many things right and has you said the important thing is then to market to all those contacts anf followers somenthing interesting. Now we all know that there are many good services and product out there and if you just put an articles with your link of the product or the services at the bottom I’m afraid you won’t do many sells because very few people buy at first glance, what I will suggest you is to always put a capture page or a squeze page that offer somenting for free and then market to them with your autoresponder over the time. The fortune is on the follow up and if you do all that effort to get all those followers make sure they are in your list so you can market to them and make real contacts.
sincerely,
Sergio Ervini
What is Twitter Marketing?
i love to Twitter my day to day activities to my friends and followers. Twitter is much better than blogging because it is direct to the point and does not require you to type so many unnecessary words.
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