It’s fabulous to think that only 2 years ago, this word was unknown and didn’t mean anything to most people.

Now Twitter has become one of the center-pieces of marketers than know how to handle social media, and require to make it a powerful piece of their marketing puzzle.

As general concept, you require finally both free and paid marketing on your arsenal, that is how you can take huge action and get huge results, but this is for another broader topic.

In this editorial you’ll learn how to automate your twitter marketing by quitely putting your acount to work, and deliver hundreds of followers per day, but simultaneously by keeping your account tidy and compliant to Twitter-rules so that you don’t get banned!

1. Think it like going to a party….

You would not say to somebody you meet at a party…” hey how are you? Here’s my business card, hope to see you in my store!” Probably not…. and you need to think of your account as a magazine or radio station as well… bottom line, you NEED to offer lovely content of REAL value for your followers. Mix it up, don’t blast out ads only.

The biggest thing you will do when you automate your twitter promotion is schedulingall your tweets…. you don’t need to be on there all day, you have other things to do.

2. The power of scheduling and forget… go about your day with your tweets being posted.

3. How to Follow people every day in a smart way

I suggest 10-12 tweets per day, a lovely mix of value for your followers (quotes, articles and free reports) and tweets with your business link. a 3-4 to 1 ratio is lovely… where the 1 is a tweet with your personal link

Here’s what is safe to do so you won’t get banned from Twitter: add 100-150 people a day until you get to 500 followers… than start adding 200-300 a day.. when you are around 1000, you can add 400-500/day.

The best way is to pick 1 or 2 people that relate to your business, and follow their followers.

4. Tidy it up

VERY IMPORTANT, when you get over 2000 followers: you cannot follow a quantity of people that is higher than 10% over your followers…. Example: if you have 2000 followers, you can be following over 2200 people.

Every morning, you ought to UNfollow people that are not following you back. There is no point in giving them a few days to do it. Tidy it up every day.

My first software suggestion is Hummingbird 2,a wonderful software that will automate many cool functions for you. You can google it. This is a ONE TIME fee. This can do all of the above and more for you.

The other is SocialOomph … cute name I know, this one offers a lot for free…. for all the other bells and whistles you will have to pay a small mothly fee.

I really hope this will help you get started in your Social Media adventures, to market in the best way possible, which is giving before receiving.

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Social media has proved to be a great means for getting traffic to your blog: Once you have your web-presence, in the form of a social-circle on networks such as Twitter and Facebook, you can publicise your posts by this means in addition to socially interacting.

There are plugins that you can add to a Wordpress blog, (I’m speaking from experience here.) that will aid you in doing this: They automatically send notifications of your articles to Twitter, Facebook, Ping.fm, and the like. You can also set these networks to notify other networks too.

There’s a single drawback there though, in that notifications are restricted to your own network alone. Whilst the faithful followers are notified, it can become somewhat of a cut-off clique in a sense of the phrase. Unless someone notices and retweets your tweet on Twitter, for instance, it’ll stay within your own personal following to a greater extent.

Having said all that; here’s a plugin that could get some great publicity for your Wordpress blog posts. It’s called the Tweetmeme Button. It’s a plugin for Wordpress that adds a retweet button to your blog, so that readers can retweet the main subject matter of your article on Twitter to their own social-circle.

From the plugin’s home page on wordpress.org: -

The tweetmeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.

Features

• Integrates the ability to retweet your post with one click
• Shows the current number of times your post has been retweeted on twitter
• Allows you to specify when the button should go (e.g. top or bottom)

From the button page on the tweetmeme.com website: -

The Retweet button is for website and blog publishers that want to encourage their audience to retweet their content on twitter.

We have made our button really smart, with one simple piece of javascript we are clever enough to give you up to date tweet counts and shorten your title and link for the retweets. Best of all it will work on any web page, anywhere!”

Yes it’s not solely restricted to use with WordPress blogs. Any blog or otherwise can use it. The relevant code etc is available on this page linked here. The Wordpress plugin itself will only work on Wordpress, of course. Otherwise it’s a multi-platform sensation.

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Twitzap is better than Twitter Web Interface. So far, it is the best webUI for Twitter. It is an AJAX interface app that just works with its elegant looks. It automatically refreshes your twitter stream and channels or saved searches you subscribe to, and keeps track of how many unread messages you have in each channel.

Twitzap may be compared to Tweet Grid, but of better layout and design.

Channels are the main feature of Twitzap, where @replies and direct messages are treated as channels, too, combining your incoming and outgoing DMs into one neat list. You can also quickly add trending topics to your channels from right in the sidebar. Other features including chatting over Twitzap with other users who are logged in and a retweet button for each tweet, next to favorite and reply.

The application uses the same background you had set-up for your Twitter web interface, which, honestly cause you to feel at home.

What’s the killer feature? For me, being a web app (no installation) and having the AJAX effect all throughout the app (except the numbers for followers and following) is the killer, as if I’m using TweetDeck less its huge memory resource requirement.

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Buzzom is a simple Twitter tool that does the following:

• help us to randomly select users and follow them.
• help to unfollow users which are not following you and that way you can keep your following list in control.
• Buzzom also helps to follow your followers back.

Using Buzzom to unfollow a number of twitters may get you bored by the 25 per transaction limit it imposes, but at least does the job compared to twitter karma that doesn’t allow me to login after I reached the 4000th level

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It is the universal sign of a new idea going mainstream: Oprah Winfrey is bestowing her endorsement on Twitter.

Oprah Winfrey

The woman who can single-handedly send a new product or book flying off the shelves has just joined Twitter. She has not yet written a tweet, but more than 30,000 followers have already signed up to follow her every 140-character thought, and the number is growing. Rumor has it she will write her first tweet on Friday, when she is dedicating her show to Twitter. (It airs at 4 p.m. Eastern time — check your local listings here for details on viewing the show in your area.)

Ashton Kutcher will be on the show, according to Oprah’s Web site. He is one of Twitter’s most active celebrity twitterers and will most likely talk about his race with CNN to be the first to get a million followers.

Maybe Evan Williams, Twitter’s chief executive, will be on the show, too. He mysteriously twittered this message Thursday morning: “Tomorrow just became a very big day. (Sorry for the teaser — more later.)” The blogs went wild. An acquisition? A partnership with Google? An update on his wife’s pregnancy?

More likely, an appearance on Oprah. Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founder, told me that Friday’s news will be “more exciting for Ev personally but also good for Twitter.”

Oprah is already following the twitterings of both Mr. Williams and Mr. Kutcher, as well as Demi Moore, Ellen DeGeneres, Gayle King and George Stephanopoulos.

Twitter’s popularity has been soaring in the last few months — according to Compete, a Web analytics firm, Twitter had 14 million unique visitors in March, up from eight million in February.

Oprah’s blessing will surely send traffic to the stratosphere as a flood of new people discover the microblogging service. It will also test the service’s ability to handle the increased traffic — just imagine if Oprah logs on and gets the famous Fail Whale indicating that the Twitter service is overloaded.

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What do AT&T, Avon and Coca-Cola all have in common? They all have a web presence using social marketing. But social marketing isn’t just for the million dollar businesses to use to promote their company.

Social marketing is for anyone and can be used successfully with just minimal amount of time and effort. Many real estate agents have turned to social marketing. Since a great deal of their potential clients have started hanging out online in social sites, those are the areas smart real estate agents as well as real estate companies are targeting.

Century 21 is one real estate company that utilizes social marketing.

Some ways social marketing can benefit agents is it helps them build an awareness of who they are. By using online videos, agents can put a face on the services they provide which in turn helps people connect more.

Why?

Because giving a face to the product or service helps to build a bridge of trust.

Agents can create webinars where they can walk clients through the steps of buying a first home, or teach experienced homeowners how to best stage their home for maximum selling potential.

Real estate agents aren’t the only ones who can use social marketing. Attorneys can benefit from creating an image and building a reputation. No matter how pressed for time an attorney is between running to court and consulting with clients, social marketing can be accomplished in a zip by using Twitter.

You can send a quick 140 character or less mini-blog update to Twitter about what’s going on in your world. You can link Twitter to your website or legal blog. It helps people see your online presence and makes you appear more approachable.

You don’t have to be a professional to benefit from social marketing. Take at home entrepreneurs who have Café Press shops. You have many avenues you can use with social marketing.

If you’re selling your graphic art images on T-shirts, you can create a Squidoo lens about your creation, then you can tweet when you see your product sample on your Café Press page, you can put content about your business on a Digg post - the possibilities are endless.

Social Marketing has also become popular among writers and best selling authors. Many use social marketing for such things as virtual book tours. They interact with fans and by doing so create a web presence and brand that helps the fan feel connected.

Those invaluable connections help fans feel like they get to ‘know’ the author, creating a relationship and that can then translate into sales.

You can sell tangible products, ideas, digital downloads, or yourself (for branding purposes) in the web 2.0 atmosphere. The possibilities are endless!

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Due to the relative ease of sponsoring followers, twitter dominates compared to the traditional blogging.

Twitter is similar to blogging but accelerated and concentrated. Instead of comments, links and trackbacks, we discover new people to follow through replies, both to you and to others. If someone replies to me with an interesting comment, or if someone I am following has an interesting conversation with someone I haven’t discovered, I am more likely to follow them. People who would otherwise go unnoticed in the blogosphere have found attention far more efficiently in the Twittersphere.

This is even more pronounced and exciting when you get noticed by the topnotch Twitter movers and shakers. As in the blog world where an A-List link can boost your subscriber count, this happens much more often on Twitter. Tweets are cheap, it isn’t a big deal to fire off a message, compared to writing up a blog post, so a conversation with a big named Tweeter can drive hundreds of follows with little effort or risk on either side.

There is also the “reciprocal follow” where someone follows you so you follow them back. It doesn’t happen all the time but it is virtually unheard of in blogging.

In the case of personal blogging, Twitter has mostly taken a big chunk of the action. Before we would subscribe to the feed of people we wanted to stay in touch with. Family, friends, or just people who we found interesting. Twitter now provides the same role, with the bonus of immediacy of updates and instant interaction.

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As Twitter hits its stride and emerges as a juggernaut in social media, the top users on the site are distancing themselves from the pack. The race to 1,000,000 followers will be achieved in a few months by some accounts. With such strong followings, many new or inactive Twitter users may not think that there are top accounts that will follow them back.

On the contrary, there are many. In fact, many users with tens of thousands of followers will follow just about everyone back. Some use tools to automatically follow anyone who follows them. Others actually go through and manually add their new followers. Regardless of the method, these 237 accounts will most likely follow you back, even if you’re a Twitter newbie.

100,000+ Followers

1. BarackObama
2. DowningStreet
3. TheOnion

50,000-100,000 Followers

1. GuyKawasaki
2. Starbucks
3. Scobleizer
4. BigRichB
5. Astronautics
6. CaseyWright
7. PerryBelcher
8. AlohaArleen
9. Nansen
10. TheBusyBrain
11. RobMcNealy
12. MichaeMillman
13. Zaibatsu
14. WBAustin

40,000-50,000 Followers

1. Jonathan360
2. HashTags
3. TheDigitalLife
4. Andrew303
5. ESPN
6. MrSocial
7. ChrisPirillo
8. Stejules
9. DaveMalby
10. Eleesha

30,000-40,000 Followers

1. CraigTeich
2. StephenKruiser
3. Jerell
4. BradHoward
5. Foodimentary
6. ScotMcKay
7. EdStivala
8. RockingJude
9. ShannonSeek
10. RadioBlogger
11. MikeKlingler
12. RonnieWilson
13. DanTanner
14. MikePFS
15. TechXav
16. SocialMediaClub
17. FLWBooks
18. Kamper
19. AndrewWindham

20,000-30,000 Followers

1. Oliver_Turner
2. _SamJones
3. KMesiab
4. Mark33
5. StanleyTang
6. Barefoot_Exec
7. JackBastide
8. NicheTitans
9. MarketingZap
10. PragueBob
11. Twitter_Tips
12. TwitPic
13. 00Joe
14. JeanetteJoy
15. OHHDLInfo
16. MariaAndros
17. JeanLucR
18. TMaduri
19. TwitLive
20. ImogenHeap
21. NewMediaJim
22. MarkDavidson
23. OpenZine
24. BryantSmith
25. TYSONtheQUICK
26. DrJeffersnBoggs
27. JayOatway
28. Upicks
29. Gemstars
30. MichDdot
31. SethSimonds
32. JesseNewhart
33. Zefrank
34. RichCurrie
35. KarlRove
36. SitePointdotcom
37. iPodiums
38. AlexKaris
39. HoleInHisEye
40. Pistachio
41. OudiAntebi
42. DSMPublishing
43. PeterSantilli
44. Orrin_Woodward
45. QueenoftheClick
46. StockTwits
47. MarketingProfs
48. MariSmith

10,000-20,000 Followers

1. MarcWarnke
2. Debbas
3. SteveWeber
4. TUAW
5. KikiValdes
6. WayneMansfield
7. USBargains
8. Rex7
9. CoffeeTweet
10. LarryLanier
11. JulieRoy
12. JamesRivers
13. MikeFilsaime
14. Montaignejns
15. SeanMalarkey
16. WebAddict
17. LarryBrauner
18. Leplan
19. AaronMartirano
20. JeffPulver
21. Teedubya
22. DCRBlogs
23. ShawnRobinson
24. KonaEndurance
25. TradingGoddess
26. JohnReese
27. InfadelsAreCool
28. Techhie
29. Nabbit
30. DiyanaAlcheva
31. Unmarketing
32. Meteorit
33. TrafficGen
34. StaffInSeconds
35. PeterDrew
36. LittleQuiz
37. TeddyShabba
38. DawudMiracle
39. RightWingNews
40. OutsideMyBrain
41. Dollars5
42. MediaBistro
43. Adnagam
44. COasis
45. NicholasPatten
46. AlexisNeely
47. EverywhereTrip
48. E_Stampede
49. ChristianFea
50. MojoJuju
51. eMom
52. RizzoTees
53. Anexemines
54. AmericanElement
55. TravisGreenlee
56. RickySantos
57. PawLuxury
58. KrisColvin
59. PinkElephantPun
60. JasonFinch
61. LonnieHodge
62. JanSimpson
63. Stickham
64. DaveLawrence
65. CaliDeals
66. JamesByers
67. JeffHerring
68. Linc4Justice
69. GSpowart
70. HowardBienstock
71. Peter_R_Casey
72. BettyDraper
73. MichaelEmlong
74. Dexin
75. The_Gman
76. BobCallahan
77. TrendTracker
78. TylerTorment
79. GarinKilpatrick
80. Jim_Turner
81. Ann_Sieg
82. Ken_Cosgrove
83. Frostfire
84. Pat_Lorna
85. WineTwits
86. BradFallon
87. TimJensen
88. PhotoCanvas
89. JasonMitchener
90. Bill_Romanos
91. MikeMayhew
92. HawaiiRealty
93. 9Miles
94. Sotero_Garcia
95. Loyalty360
96. WeirdChina
97. MarkRMatthews
98. SteveOuch
99. Socrates_Soc
100. Comcastcares
101. ChrisMoreschi
102. CoffeeCupNews
103. WillieCrawford
104. LouieBaur
105. Coolsi
106. Nicolane
107. NixTheNews
108. EzineArticles
109. Hubpages
110. ChrisSpagnuolo
111. FredaMooncotch
112. SheriTingle
113. JustingLover
114. ShortAwards
115. Flap
116. SuggestionBox
117. JimDeMint
118. TweetStats
119. theBilly
120. ThaPaparazza
121. WritingHannah
122. 0Boy
123. ThinkGeek
124. LanceScoular
125. MayhemStudios
126. TraderAdvice
127. Dana_Willhoit
128. JimmySmithTrain
129. JoelDrapper
130. Kidscash
131. KellyShibari
132. SteveGarfield
133. JasonTryfon
134. DanSchawbel
135. LookCook
136. JudyRey
137. MJBerry
138. EdwardMoore
139. BlackBottoms
140. DougH
141. CrumCake
142. ProsperityGal
143. Lotay
144. JudyRey

How to Use this List

Regardless of what stage you are in Twitter, if your goal is to accumulate active followers, the people on this list are good for that. Most on the list are active and interact with their followers on a daily basis. They retweet to their followers when they find something interesting on or off Twitter and many of them post high-quality tweets.

Some do not, and you’ll be able to identify the spammers and self-serving users from what appears in your stream. This list has not been validated for quality (maybe a future blog post) but rather to help new and experienced users grow their followers.

Unfortunately, I did the list backwards. Anyone who wants to grow their Twitter account should start from the bottom and work their way up, adding all 237 either all at once or spread out over time. The advantage of adding from this list is two-fold:

Obviously, as these users have demonstrated a willingness to follow those who follow them, it gives you a likely additional follower.

The side-benefit of adding from this list is that once you follow them, your account will, for a short period of time, be at the top of their followers list. Many users build their Twitter followers by adding the followers of users such as these, so being at the top increases your account’s exposure and the number of opportunities for other users to follow you.

This blog does not condone “Twitter Follower Spam” or whatever you would like to call the practice of adding a ton of followers, unfollowing them later, and adding more in a vicious cycle of growth, but hey, it works, and many people do it. This is just a resource to help users at every level build their accounts as quickly as they would like.
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I got on twitter about late 2007. None of my friends were on twitter yet, as they were mostly in Friendster. It was only this year, 2009, that I begun realizing how twitter is dominating the Social Media. So I started following anyone who don’t even have something of interest to me to say or tweet. I even had this special attention to people with large numbers of followers. No clear idea what I was doing, so I just started following as many people as I could.

As my own twitter followers began to grow, it was just impossible to keep up with my twitter feed (a timeline of the tweets of those you are following), even the DM(direct messages) are already overwhelming, but I have to answer them one-by-one. Plus, I could no longer take the time to go to every followers page and decide whether I wanted to follow back or not.

Thanks to TweetLater, it sends an auto reply message to everyone who follows me and also follow them back automatically.

The number of people I was following grew to hundreds, a crowded twitter feed.

Instead of bothering myself of the the huge number of feeds, I focused on posting my own interesting tweets, and replying to @replies and direct messages.

For twitterers and topics I was very interested in following, though, I have to make use of twitter’s search function, which takes time.

Thanks now to TweetDeck.

TweetDeck

An Adobe AIR aplication that is full-packed almost all-in twitter tool. You can create groups of people to follow, set-up custom searches of keywords and topics, plus you can display your direct messages and replies.

Now, which of the two groups of Tweople do you belong?

1. Those who follow everyone back.

This is part of the general etiquette, an unwritten rule so-to-speak. Doing so isn’t merely courteous but encourages goodwill between you and your followers, therefore people will respond to you more as their followers see how you conduct yourself leading to your eventual popularity ;). The bigleaguers do practice this, why won’t we?

2. Those who only follow a select few.

To keep you feed manageable, this can be a good one to practice. But a bit of concern is that you cannot receive direct messages from those you’re not following, though you can see the replies sent to you. This may give much prestege and exclusivity.

Actually, those who do not belong to either groups are in the third one, those that simply follow anyone as fast as they could, and has the slightest sincerity to tweet sensible words. Or often they do make sensible ones, but mostly to harrass tweople of different marketing offers.

Well, honestly, I do sneek into the third group a few times to gain few followers, but I make sure I get out from it in a day or two. Unfollowing is quite easily done with by a bomb twitter application called Twitter Karma. In Tweeter Karma you can sort by all friends and see the relationship (you follow them/they follow you) or sort by people you follow but that don’t follow you and vice versa. If you haven’t caught up with everyone that you want to follow, you can go to the “only followers” page, select all and then bulk follow. You can also bulk unfollow people. Results are sorted by last update, so if you scroll to the bottom of the screen you can easily delete people with dead or stagnant accounts.

I hope these information are useful enough for most of my readers

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