Just came across this cute litle list. http://taplop.com/ This is a list of Twitter users that are reported to always follow back. It can be used as a good and easy way to get a bunch of new followers. They are all categorized by the number of followers the users have with 100 profiles per page. The first time you click the "Follow" button you may be asked to login with your username and password. Just start from the top: http://taplop.com/followback.asp?start=1&followers=100000 And go all the way down througe it. You should have 1500-2000 followers when done.
just need flashtweet to be able to import this list. Or, maybe I whip up a bit of perl to do it for me.
my Initial thought is that this list is mainly other marketers/spammers like us. I am not sure of the usefulness in sending them messeges about whatever you are promoting. They wont read it. I suppose it does have some usefullnes for simply building up your followers numbers. Thanks for the share though.
I agree that this will get you 1500+ plus follower very quickly. I also somewhat agree with Hoops4me that people with auto-follow are usually not the best market for our sales pitches. One downside I see to this method is that your followers are not targeted. Granted targeting in Twitter is not a science, per se, but some steps can be taken to ensure a focused audience. It would be an interesting experiment to use a follower list created from the above versus a targeted list built over time and see what performs best. I believe the targeted list would be better. Thanks for the tips -- I may use just to see what it can produce.
I haven't put much time into marketing with Twitter, so this is a least a step in the right direction. Thanks!
WHile this may get you followers, like others have mentioned, they won't really seem to be targetted, or for that matter even aware of who you are if they are using autofollow which makes it more likely that they won't pay attention to your tweets. That's not to say that all of them won't act on your tweets but in my experience, the percentage is very low. depending on what niche your wanting to use twitter for use advanced twitter search to find people tweeting about your niche and follow them manually.
