Grow your Twitter followers in 30 seconds!
Posted by networkfromhome on February 13, 2009
I recently received an email form Network Marketing Coach/Teacher/Guru Mike Klingler, of Renegade University fame. He told me about a very controversial tool on Twitter. I love to tweet and have found this venue to be a great way to keep up with the latest news among those I’m interested in following, and a super way to update those same folks on what I’ve been up to – all in 140 characters or less!!
Anyway, back to the email…
The tool he talks about certainly does have the potential to give you a short cut to building your Twitter follower list. The faster you take action (takes about 30 seconds) the bigger it can grow your list.
See it at: http://www.tweetergetter.com/patfenner But review the rest of this post before you decide whether or not to use it.
Here’s the controversy:
Promoting this link is considered by some on Twitter to be quite annoying. If you go to search.twitter.com and type in tweetergetter you will be able to read from all the people who hate it (and some who like it).
From what he’s observed so far, it seems to work…the problem is that many ‘non marketers’ do not believe in short cuts to building a list or following. On the other end, of course, you have people who love the power of exponentialism (usually marketers looking for a short cut).
Some of the marketers with big reputations won’t promote it because they are rightfully afraid of how that will be perceived by ‘non marketers’ or other ‘successful’ marketers who frown on short cuts.
Here’s the rest of his email:
“I don’t like short cuts because I don’t believe they typically work. I have a feeling that this will work; however, for those that move on it before the buzz ends.
Many people will say that you should NOT use this tool because you should build your Friends list the “old fashioned way…” one follower at a time providing value.
While I agree you should emphasize value in your approach and I understand why some consider a tool like this annoying (to see marketer types come in and build huge following lists quickly with a gadget)—the reality is that many of the big name reputable marketers applied these kinds of viral strategies and were applauded for it.
It is a risk of reputation if you promote this. I, for now, have decided to share it and use it as a social experiment. It is possible that the tool may be shut down by Twitter (but there is no way they will penalize all who use it). It is just as possible that they don’t care about this tool and may even be quite curious themselves to watch this unfold.”
So there you have it, an explanation and a word of advice from someone-who-knows…much better than me!!
Take a look for yourself here… http://www.tweetergetter.com/patfenner
