Followers

A question by tweet: @TweetSmarter How do you recommend dealing with people that follow then unfollow? even DM-ing before they do? I’m exhausted. The best solution is to have a good strategy for following people. Following people only because they follow you is a bad strategy, for example. It will attract too many low-quality accounts, many [...]

I’m going to show you how to identify users who may be breaking Twitter’s Terms of Service (TOS), but also show you why it’s hard to know for sure—and how newer, more sophisticated follow-unfollow software makes it impossible to tell. What I’m going to be covering are uses of Twitter that will get your account [...]

Tip: You’ll need to have part 1 handy to get the most out of this post, and you might want to follow these tips for getting the most out of these ideas. I get asked this a lot, both from folks who are not popular outside of Twitter and even from celebrities. The most common variation is [...]

After the @TweetSmarter account had been around  a couple of months (by Fall of 2008) it started to get a lot more followers. We were getting tons of recommendations, and working hard to help every single person who ever contacted us, so we naturally got a lot of followers—many more than we were following. Follower [...]