How to Gain Thousands of Twitter Followers in One Day
February 22nd, 2009Why do Britney Spears, NYT, Gaurdian get thousands of new Twitter followers everyday? Simple. If you are the privleged few to get a place in the Twitter Suggested Users list, you are featured on the accounts and sign up pages of thousands of Twitterers daily, and then its not difficult to increase Twitter followers by thousands everyday .
Its being reported that several high-profile Twitter accounts are getting astronomical jumps in new Twitter followers, tens of thousands of new followers, in some cases. While most Twitter users find it difficult to draw even a few hundred followers, how were they getting thousands of new followers every day?
Suggested Twitter Users
Twitter recently introduced a new feature called Suggested users, which you can also locate in your Twitter account at Find People > Suggested Users. This suggests some top Twitter users which you can subscribe to, which includes many top media houses, top blogs, celebrities and Twitter staff etc.
I was tempted to check out my list of suggested users and check the rise of their new Twitter follower counts on Twittercounter. Behold the huge rise and I don’t need to to tell you when they all went live on the suggested users list …
Note that these users are not suggested on basis of your Twitter friends or tweeting habits, but as a preselected list. So obviously, if you are on the Suggested users list, you will attract thousands of new followers. It also helps Twitter promote their brand by suggesting that top celebrities are using Twitter. Now all these users are making it to the top Twitter users list at Twitterholic.
While Brook Baynes wondered if fake followers were gaming the system, Evan, CEO of Twitter pointed in the comments that
The reason for this is that each of these accounts is listed in our Suggested Users list, which is now the last page of our signup process. The followers aren’t fake, they’re just new users — which is why they don’t have updates or profile icons.
The reason we created this feature is because lots of people sign up to Twitter but aren’t following anyone, so we’re trying to help get them started. This is a v 1.0 of this functionality, and we hope to make it a lot better. But I don’t believe there’s anything nefarious going on.
I would like the Suggested User feature to be more transparent and suggest targeted users based on your Tweeting habits or of Tweeple you follow. The Suggested users title till then should be changed to more like “Featured Users” or “Popular Users“.
So the secret is out, its not about increasing your Twitter followers by a few hundred, but by a few thousand every day. If you want thousands of Twitter followers in one day, coax the Twitter staff to add you to the Suggested Users List today… and watch your twitter followers number zoom like never before.
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I wonder why they havent added all their staff to the suggested list (or am i wrong?). Anyhow some of them (like http://twitter.com/andr8a ) doesnt have the ‘1000’s of followers’
Maybe I should send them a million dollar check to include me too there.. :)
let me try this
This, If true, is yet just another channel of the Athlete/Celebrity Distraction Fantasy, and Twitter is planning to cash in on it.
People need to wake up and pay attention to what is really going on in the U.S.A. This Summer is going to be a wake up call for many.
Isn’t MrTweet (www.mrtweet.net) a better approach? I’ve used it and found it useful.
I agree that Twitter should recommend followers based on tweets. I think that instead of having a suggested users page, if they want to promote famous users, they should have a directory with categories such as actors, singers, authors, politicians, etc.
Look up. I wonder what it would be like to have thousands of followers….
(dream sequence)
Wakes up moments later to dog clawing to go outside. Well, the fame was nice while it lasted.
Cheers!
Very nice article and ways to try, l am going to try it now, wish can get some for my new sites:)
So you mean we have to update hourly on twitter in order to get 1000’s of followers?
Just get on the Twitter suggested user list.
Ok, so who do we hafta bake homemade brownies for to get on that list?
If they are recommending followers in the start-up process then they won’t know your tweet history.
They should have some form of pick your top 5 interests, top 5 geographic locals, etc to generate that list.
But if they don’t fix it… I wouldn’t mind one of those spots.
@ckluis
In a nutshell, as @Ev says, it is to show the new users SOMETHING instead of nothing! The problem with the earlier sign-up process was that people would get an account, but have noone to follow! At least with the recommendation engine, they now have some sort of exposure to activity, and tweets to get their Twitter ball rolling!
The downfall to this technique is that the “lucky few” have amazingly quick, non-organic growth. The recommendation engine defaults to “Select All” on the recommended list!
On a side note, this gives you a pretty good assessment to the daily growth numbers of Twitter overall! It seems to be averaging in the 7,000 – 10,000 users per day area! Not bad!
Great article!
Feel free to follow me! @TheBusyBrain
Ohh… also…
Let’s keep in mind that this recommendation engine is only in 1.0! It is very evident that they have a LOT of ideas and alterations to this feature in the pipeline!
Who wants 1000s of followers anyway? Are we really *that* interesting to so many people we don’t know?
Like my Grandma used to say, “Quality – not quantity”.
One can become interesting if there is something valuable that he/she shares. So, sharing is interesting, isn’t it?
You can follow me..I want more followers..
Tallgodess
Twitter follwers can be made to follow with these tactics quite effectively???Well i will try it buddy.
trying a lot to increase the nos of followers and its getting harder everytime.
seems interesting thing… Not sure about it but let me try it now..
Thnx rabin_galan for that i ried it and i have increased the no of followers to some extent within few minutes. i m really happy