Okay, you have a Twitter account and you aren’t getting very many followers, at least not as many targeted followers as you would like. I ran into that same problem.

Actually, I didn’t even get a Twitter account until about January of 2009. I thought that the whole thing was stupid and I didn’t sign up until then. Many months later I had about 100 followers, pretty pathetic, but I wasn’t promoting it.

I then decided that I would start following people and getting followers. Adding followers on Twitter, manually, really sucks. It takes forever and it is just not worth it.

So, I thought that the people that had all of these thousands of followers just got them because they had huge mailing lists. That may help, but these guys were getting most of their followers from some other means.

I started looking at their Twitter accounts and I would see that they were following more people than were following them, not everybody, but a lot of them. That tells you that they are getting their followers by following targeted strangers.

I know how lazy gurus can be, so I wondered, there is no way that they are doing it manually, right? I’m sure that they don’t and I doubt that they outsource it. Then I learned that they’re using software.

Set it up and forget software, that is how they’re doing it. They have software that is doing the work for them, big surprise, I should have known better. The jerks have an edge, haha.

Yeah, I use software to grow my Twitter accounts. There are some really expensive software out there, but I use the lively browser Twitter software. I love it and the customer service is wonderful. Search lively browser and go to the Twitter software. It’s really cheap compared to other software.

You can follow who the gurus are following or their followers if you’re in the make money online niche. If you’re in some other niche, find a guru in that niche and follow their followers. It isn’t rocket science, but it is effective.

You can set up the auto direct messages with tweet later, but I like to network and get to know people. You can always tweet about promoting your blog or website or products later. Take the time to ease your way into the relationship with your followers. I’m not a big believer in selling to someone that you just met. Build the relationship first.