EddieC123
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- Jan 8, 2013
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I wrote a guide a while back on how to mass follow on Twitter without getting suspended for aggressive following, but Twitter changed their algorithm and what once worked now sees you fall foul of the ban hammer. I have been testing a number of accounts over the last couple of months, and have developed a new method that has since been tested on 30 accounts without any suspensions. This method is safe for new accounts, I only ran a few tests on this so can't give definitive limits but if you have an aged account you will be able to follow a bit more aggressively than this guide recommends.
Step 1 - Setting up the accounts
All accounts need to have a profile picture, bio & customisation to the appearance - just setting a background colour will do, no need to go all out. I haven't tested accounts extensively without these basics as it's good practice to add them anyway, but I definitely noticed the limits being tighter on profiles I didn't modify.
I advised in my previous guide that if you were sending traffic to a website it was best to split the niche into micro-niches & setup multiple Twitter accounts. This still works, but you need to make sure that you are posting links to other sites as well on all accounts - it now gets picked up when multiple accounts are tweeting links to the same domain & no others.
This bit is the most important change from the previous guide - it is now essential that you tweet at least five times per day. Going over five per day doesn't appear to add any additional benefit but going under this figure reduces the number you can follow without getting suspended.
Step 2 - Mass following
On the first day you start tweeting don't follow anyone, and follow 25, 50 then 100 on days two, three & four. After day four you have two choices - you can continue growing slow & steady or you can buy some followers to speed things up. Unfortunately you're not able to fast-forward quite as quickly as before by buying followers, but you can still get to a decent following a lot quicker.
Without buying followers
Continue following 100 people per day until the account has 1,000 followers. From this point you can follow 10% each day of the total number of followers you have - so if you had 2,000 followers you would be able to follow 200 per day - until you get to 5,000 followers & are following 500 accounts per day. Continue to follow 500 per day until your following reaches 10k, then up the number you are following by 50 each day until you reach Twitter's limit of 1,000 per day. This should get you safely up to following 1k per day in approximately 3 months as long as you don't pick a niche with low interest.
Buying 5k followers
Buy your followers on day four after you've followed a few accounts yourself. After your followers have been added, up the amount you follow each day by 100 until you are following 500 per day. Continue to follow 500 per day until your following reaches 10k, then up the number you are following by 50 each day until you reach Twitter's limit of 1,000 per day. This should get you following 1k per day in about 6 weeks.
Buying 10k followers
Buy 5k followers on day four, and up the amount you follow each day by 100 after your followers have been added until you are following 500 per day. Once you are following 500 per day buy another 5k followers & keep following 500 per day for another week, then up the number you are following by 50 each day until you reach Twitter's limit of 1,000 per day. This will get you following 1k per day in under 4 weeks.
Step 3 - Mass unfollowing
Once you are following more than 2,000 people Twitter will only allow you to follow 110% of the total number that follow you. To stay within this limit you need to be unfollowing those that don't follow you back. Twitter will also penalise accounts that regularly unfollow those they have only just followed, so you need to only unfollow those that you followed a few days before. If you are using software that remembers when you followed people adjust the settings accordingly, if you don't have this feature then you will have to pause following for a couple of days every week before unfollowing.
Twitter also flags accounts that only ever unfollow those that don't follow back. This is extra annoying as it doesn't happen immediately & you will have already invested a lot of time building your following, plus Twitter don't seem to unsuspend accounts that are caught out in this manner. To avoid this you need to also unfollow some of the users that did follow you back. This undoubtedly leads to some people unfollowing you as a result, so try & target the users you unfollow - I usually unfollow those that haven't tweeted in the last three days. This does only appear to be an issue with new accounts though, once your account is three months old you no longer need to do this additional unfollowing.
The results
Depending on the niches I've worked with I have had a followback rate of 15-45%, with most niches being around the 35% mark. Once you are following the maximum number allowed this means anywhere up to 3k new followers per week. Get some proxies & scale this up like I have and you can easily have tens of thousands of new followers to market to each week!
Any questions, feel free to ask
Step 1 - Setting up the accounts
All accounts need to have a profile picture, bio & customisation to the appearance - just setting a background colour will do, no need to go all out. I haven't tested accounts extensively without these basics as it's good practice to add them anyway, but I definitely noticed the limits being tighter on profiles I didn't modify.
I advised in my previous guide that if you were sending traffic to a website it was best to split the niche into micro-niches & setup multiple Twitter accounts. This still works, but you need to make sure that you are posting links to other sites as well on all accounts - it now gets picked up when multiple accounts are tweeting links to the same domain & no others.
This bit is the most important change from the previous guide - it is now essential that you tweet at least five times per day. Going over five per day doesn't appear to add any additional benefit but going under this figure reduces the number you can follow without getting suspended.
Step 2 - Mass following
On the first day you start tweeting don't follow anyone, and follow 25, 50 then 100 on days two, three & four. After day four you have two choices - you can continue growing slow & steady or you can buy some followers to speed things up. Unfortunately you're not able to fast-forward quite as quickly as before by buying followers, but you can still get to a decent following a lot quicker.
Without buying followers
Continue following 100 people per day until the account has 1,000 followers. From this point you can follow 10% each day of the total number of followers you have - so if you had 2,000 followers you would be able to follow 200 per day - until you get to 5,000 followers & are following 500 accounts per day. Continue to follow 500 per day until your following reaches 10k, then up the number you are following by 50 each day until you reach Twitter's limit of 1,000 per day. This should get you safely up to following 1k per day in approximately 3 months as long as you don't pick a niche with low interest.
Buying 5k followers
Buy your followers on day four after you've followed a few accounts yourself. After your followers have been added, up the amount you follow each day by 100 until you are following 500 per day. Continue to follow 500 per day until your following reaches 10k, then up the number you are following by 50 each day until you reach Twitter's limit of 1,000 per day. This should get you following 1k per day in about 6 weeks.
Buying 10k followers
Buy 5k followers on day four, and up the amount you follow each day by 100 after your followers have been added until you are following 500 per day. Once you are following 500 per day buy another 5k followers & keep following 500 per day for another week, then up the number you are following by 50 each day until you reach Twitter's limit of 1,000 per day. This will get you following 1k per day in under 4 weeks.
Step 3 - Mass unfollowing
Once you are following more than 2,000 people Twitter will only allow you to follow 110% of the total number that follow you. To stay within this limit you need to be unfollowing those that don't follow you back. Twitter will also penalise accounts that regularly unfollow those they have only just followed, so you need to only unfollow those that you followed a few days before. If you are using software that remembers when you followed people adjust the settings accordingly, if you don't have this feature then you will have to pause following for a couple of days every week before unfollowing.
Twitter also flags accounts that only ever unfollow those that don't follow back. This is extra annoying as it doesn't happen immediately & you will have already invested a lot of time building your following, plus Twitter don't seem to unsuspend accounts that are caught out in this manner. To avoid this you need to also unfollow some of the users that did follow you back. This undoubtedly leads to some people unfollowing you as a result, so try & target the users you unfollow - I usually unfollow those that haven't tweeted in the last three days. This does only appear to be an issue with new accounts though, once your account is three months old you no longer need to do this additional unfollowing.
The results
Depending on the niches I've worked with I have had a followback rate of 15-45%, with most niches being around the 35% mark. Once you are following the maximum number allowed this means anywhere up to 3k new followers per week. Get some proxies & scale this up like I have and you can easily have tens of thousands of new followers to market to each week!
Any questions, feel free to ask
