2/27/09 8:16am
Followers : 7575 -
Twitter rank: 889
Current Followers total
I promise to come back here later and edit this Im Back
stuff ill be talking about Lets talk about it.
- Breaking into the top 1000 -
Wow what an accomplishment. If you had told me 2 weeks ago id be here- I wouldn’t have believed you. Since i posted this morning I have actually broken into the elite ranks of the top 800. Today was MASSIVE! I’m beginning to realize the bigger you get the easier it is to get people to follow you.
Don’t be discouraged if your just starting out – you CAN build a following quick. It does get easier the bigger you get though – I think its referred to as the school of fish theory. “If 8k people are following this guy, I should too”. For whatever reason – it does get easier to grow as you get bigger.
2. How to break the 2000 following barrier???
I get this question daily. – “Sean How do I get passed the 2,000 following barrier?” That’s a great question. When I was getting started I spent hours trying to figure this out, and then one day I noticed a trend. you have to get your followers up to a certain level.
When starting out – twitter caps the amount of people you can follow to 2,ooo people. My guess is to prevent spammers, but none the less – twitter will put the breaks on you there. Not until you have 1900 followers will they allow you to follow more. If you wanna accelerate this process and move beyond this barrier see my day6 post where I talk about dumping some dead weight.
3.ummm im not sure – ill figure out something good. (oh yeah possibly Ill tell you about some of the crazy things that are happening as a result of all this.)
Ok, some strange things are brewing. In the last week – I have been asked to go on the news and talk about twitter – I declined because it seemed like an odd story the reporter wanted to cover and honestly I didn’t want to be on the news! I hate the news, it always seems so negative – in fact they were trying to tie me into some story about how a business is using twitter to throw parties for people who have been recently laid off. – Not for me.
On a good front I have had 2 offers that are worthy of considering. The first was for someone to write an e book for me and use this platform and my new celebrity status on twitter to sell it. It sounds OK – but I need to consider it more. The second was from someone who is writing an e book on twitter success stories. I inquired for more info after her initial request, and was blown away with the caliber of people that are going to be included in this book. I accepted, even though there is no monetary gain to be had – I am just flattered to be Included.
If you’ve read thus far in my experiment – you should have developed a following by now. With that said my tool I want to share with you today has to do with DM’s. Currently I get around 300 DM’s a day. Auto responders and clever folks have me convinced that they are all auto-responses. So I rarely look at them – Send me an @reply if you want me to see it. But go and read this blog right now to learn how to drastically cut back on the # of auto-responses. Big shout out to @sharonhayes for being so brilliant and figuring this out, and then for sharing it – that’s what I love about twitter.
check this out - http://sharontucci.blogspot.com/ <=== awesome solution to a BIG problem.
Peace in the Middle East,
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*I originally posted this early Friday morning – and came back around 9pm to update it.
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