I've been using Twitter for some time now and in the beginning had my acct. settings to auto-follow people who followed me using the SocialOomph program. Now that my following list is greater than follows I'm unable to follow any more people. My question is - is there any easy way to unfollow a large number of people at one time instead of singly pointing and clicking on your list? I changed my settings now because of all the spam but want to clean house. Any suggestions would be great!
TIA,
Phil
I really want to increase my following on Twitter. I've been following a lot more people lately, and finding some real cool follows! Now that Google and Bing and licensing the feeds and including updates in search results, I am really seeing the benefits of being more active with my social media growth.
Are there limits as to how many you can follow a day, and are there drawbacks to using automated programs? The last thing I want to do is risk getting my account banned, but doing it manually is taking A LOT of time. I had considered outsourcing, but automation sounds best if there aren't any major risks...
All that said, I do use SocialOomph to send automated originally written and created tweets each week. Every Monday, I sit down and load up tweets that I have written myself to send out on my various accounts at set times per day. Each tweet is unique and I don't keep re-sending the same tweet over and over.
Then, in between the automated tweets, I get on TweetDeck and interact with followers. The automated is to get something consistently and regularly posting to my Twitter accounts, the interaction is to make it all social. I reply & RT manually and personally.
I do not auto follow, because then I'm auto following spammers and p*rn folks. I'm just not willing to do that.
I have used services like TweetAdder and Hummingbird. I did their trials and at the time, they were ok - but not needed for me. That said, I'm now managing Twitter accounts for clients, and I'm seeing the use of some automation as necessary for me to do all that I need to.
As long as one adheres to Twitter rules, then yes - you can use automated tools without issues with Twitter.
There are some serious shortcuts to adding followers.
The easiest is to go to someone who's your competition/in your same field who is manually following people and just follow their followers/friends. Basically, you steal their list.
Obviously it wouldn't work for me, since I autofollow people back, but when you do find someone who's hand-following, you can quickly run through and follow their folks.
I have other tricks, too, but that's the easiest way to increase your followers quickly - while, most importantly, keeping your followers relevant (not just adding people for the sake of adding people). Of course, the Social Media lessons in www.OutsourceWeekly.com has more tips for you, but I really need to update that badly as things changed really quickly.
What about automating your Twitter following? Any suggestions there? I know there are a lot of services out there but which one is good? I know Nicole mentioned what she uses (maybe in a Podcast?) but I didn't feel the need to develop my "following" at the time. With the new live search features popping up I am rethinking that policy and would love to hear what you use to automate your Twitter experience.
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