Twitter is kind of like the "Long Tail" for creating your social network of contacts. These are people who choose to follow you for various reasons and motives. Some are trying to build their lists and sell you on how to make $10,000 per month using Twitter. (I block these). However, many people are using Twitter to share content, ideas and connections. These people I tend to follow back.
Using Gmail to track followers
To make things easy, I have set up a filter rule in Gmail, that puts all my follower notices in one place (see screenshot on the left). I can see how many people have followed me based on date. It also confirms which Twitter Followers profiles I've check out and who I haven't. (read emails means I have, unread means I haven't).I'm not actively building a Twitter list, it's organically growing and I don't automagically follow someone because they follow me. I do get to know them a bit though. I check their profile, their tweets and their blog or site. If within 30 seconds or so, I see something that tweeks my interest I'll follow.
You'd be surprised at who is following you. It could be your next customer, your current customer or a prospective partner!
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I follow a similar philosophy. Good post. Unfortunately Twitter is being tainted by auto-follow type software. Whether this is negative or positive will soon be seen.
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For the next couple of weeks I'm trying out some software that searches for people who have a tweet with the phrase "b2b marketing" in it. The software will add that person to my list of followers.
ReplyDeleteI don't use autofollowing myself. But, the value of getting an auto reply is I check to see if the software is following people that I want/need to.
In my comment above I talk about using software to automatically follow people. I no longer do this and think automagically following and unfollowing people is bad practice. Feel free to add your thoughts/comments regarding the practice of autofollowing/unfollowing.
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