How To Get More Twitter Followers

April 7, 2009

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Links From This Episode:

TwitterCounter.com
Helps you analyze your performance in building twitter followers.

ViralTweets.com
Let’s you build viral twitter campaigns by hiding a piece of content until the web browser sends out the pre-written message you provided to all their twitter followers.

TweetMeMe Plugin
Adds a “ReTweet” widget to every blog post to help your posts get more coverage.

FreeTwitterDesigner.com
Easy twitter background image creator. Having a more personal twitter background helps you give more information to the person deciding on whether to follow you or not.

TwitterLocal.com
Adobe Air application for your desktop that lets you search who’s twittering what locally. For example if you wanted to know about people twittering about wanting to buy a house in Treasure Island, FL you can target that area locally to see if anyone has tweeted anything like that. Lot’s of uses!

Twitter Directories:

LocalTweeps.com
Twitter directory for finding twitter users local to you (or anywhere).

Twellow.com
Imagine if the yellow pages and twitter had a baby… This site would be it!

JustTweetIt.com
their description says it best – “Add Your Name And Get Found Or Find Others Just Like You”

TwitDir.com
This came up in our search as a twitter directory, though it was down for maintenance at the time of writing. So we don’t have any information other than others have found it useful.

WeFollow.com
This directory is more for the best of the best of twitter users. However, you can add your name and with diligent adding of twitter followers you can get your name on this site which could drastically improve your following. Kind of like an Alltop.com for Twitter.

Twibs.com
This is a business directory for twitter. Which is kinda cool because lets say you wanted to ask a baker a question… Well you could find a bakery owner on Twitter and then send them a tweet!

Our final resource or suggestion is to get familiar with Search.Twitter.com. We feel it will be much more used in the future and is great for finding out what people are saying about any given topic. Really helps you join in on relevant conversations or monitor the conversation about your brand.

My wife also mentioned that we use Twilerts.com to automatically monitor the conversations about us, our brand, and the topics we cover. These alerts watch the searches for you and then send you reports as you specify either instantly, daily, or weekly.

Questions and compliments go down below… For complaints please press ALT + FX

architectural renderings

thanks for the links justin! keep up the good work bud
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Stefan Suarez

I love what Gary Vee said:
"The way to get more followers is to stop giving a phuck about getting more followers"
LOL that guy is awesome...
.-= Stefan Suarez´s last blog ..Your Online Success = Hustle. =-.

How to Twitter

Very nice list! I've been having great success with Twitter myself..

Thanks Justin for all your great free info (as always)!

Brendan Wenzel

Great Twitter resource list! It is so much fun going through your older posts and seeing or hearing information that I may have heard earlier, but may have forgotten.
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Linda Mae

Yep, looking for that famous GFC vid.

Hey, what a cutie!

Linda

Horozima

It is very useful article with some good resources to increase the twitter followers.....Other than twitter, I use tumblr.com which generates some more traffic for my web page...

my twitter page is http://www.twitter.com/horozima

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DarrenGibson

Love your site here. I subscribing to your RSS feed just use to using them. looking forward to seeing your tweet on twitter and her eon your blog.
my twitter is http://www.twitter.com/DarrenGibson

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Matt Trostle

Hey Justin,

I'm a recent subscriber but I love your style man!

I noticed twitterlocal.com should be http://www.twitterlocal.net

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Jason Stanley Marshall

thanks for the great resources! my wife and I are
planning on using the tweetmeme plugin on our
sites. I also found the twellow.com site very
interesting and helpful.

normz2

Great post, one of the best I have seen. I would highly recomend it. I have found the best way to overcome information overload. There is so much information out there that it is impossible to master it all. I have been getting over 150 e-mails a day from people trying to sell me something. The suggestion was made to me was to only follow 5 of the best and eliminate the rest. It works. This frees up a lot of time to get something done.

June

Thanks for the great links. This will save a lot of research time. TweetLater.com is another resource link that is worth mentioning. It doesn't get you more Tweets, but does help to manage them.

<abbr>June’s last blog post..How Do I Use Twitter</abbr>

Darryl

Hello Justin & Chaunna

Thanks for the great resources,just starting to learn this twitter information,With your resources of information It makes it easier for the beginner.

Thanks again (Keep up the good work)
Darryl
Cheapebooks4less.com

Justin Brooke

Wish you the best with twitter, the more I learn how to use it the more it keeps giving me. It's definitely emerging as one of our most powerful marketing efforts.

Justin Brooke

Thanks for the TweetDeck mention, I was more so just taling about the resources that help get followers. Thanks for stopping by with a comment and compliment. You look like you got some pretty cool things going on yourself.

Agent 001

I made my own Twitter Background myself. I love your video, you have explained every tool you blogged about.

You have given some nice tips.

There is Tweet Deck. It is very nice. It is also AIR Adobe Desktop Tool.

I use Twitter Counter. I made a custom Twitter Counter myself. You can look at it on my blog.

I think this is the first time I am commenting here.

I bought your SEO Lies e book and it is good. I recommended to my friends.

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Anthony

Very useful information you have here Justine. I appreciate it. Now, I just have to go through and use 50% of it, and I'll consider it as having even greater value. That should get me going. BTW, based on a short video you sent me when you were learning public speaking, I went ahead and created a site for sale. www.weightlosstips4us.com. I just didn't think it was ready to sell though, so I still have it.

take care,
Anthony

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Justin Brooke

It's Justin not Justine but no worries. Anyhow what are you waiting for with the site man? Get that thing sold! I would probably change the template you are using though. That one doesn't have the right type of navigation menu that you would need and the header doesn't match the type of site.

Professional Website Design

Thanks for the info Justin
Up until now I've had some doubts about how much value I could create for my business by using Twitter, but if you say that you get good value from it then I will definitely have a much closer look at it.
Awesome Resource.

Justin Brooke

There is amazing value for businesses to use twitter but it has to be done right. They can't jump on there with the mentality of whats in it for me... It has to be how can I help others and build relationships. If you jump on as a salesman you'll hate twitter.

James

You say you do not use autofollow technology in Twitter but you have an automated "Personal" message from your blog comments.

Do you think that is similar?

<abbr>James’s last blog post..Internet Marketing Productivity Improvements For Maximizing Profits</abbr>

Justin Brooke

Autofollow technology breeds a following of people that really don't care about each other. They both just wanted to move up another notch in amount of followers. The automated personal message doesn't have any of those qualities. What I would compare it too are those DM messages you get from someone as soon as you follow them. Hows things been tho man, what projects are you working on?

Normal Joe

Good stuff J Boogie! I've been talking a lot with a few peeps lately and explaining the goodness of twitter.

I'm like you man, I don't like the autofollow stuff and I don't like the follow a thousand people a day.

I had a similar list that I shared on a webinar last week man, with a bunch of tools you can use to actually find folks that want to hear from you.

Great content bro.

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Justin Brooke

Where can people find out more about your webinars? P.S. Can I steal that blog idea yet? ;-)

Normal Joe

I was a guest with my buddy Markus Allen, he's working on a new product and I'm involved in the planning/content creation a bit. I'll let you know more about it when it's ready.

as for the idea, run with it man...I'm onto something else that is a much better fit for me at the moment. I finally found my "thing" lol.

see ya in the mafia kid!

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Cameron Crosse

Rediculus Value Justin. Talk about Moving the Free Line... Crazy.

Thanks for the awesome twiiter resources. Top Notch.

hey, what happened to Site Fling Mafia offer? I went to find it, but now I can't.

hook me up with a link.

Thanks again...

CX

Justin Brooke

I'm guessing that you've already found the link by now ;-) but if anyone else is looking also it's at TheSiteflingMafia.com

Michelle Brouse

Hiya Justin, Chaunna!

Great stuff as always - checking out some of the tools now. Should have thought of building that twit background tool. :-P

Wanted to let you know that you have a link up there to Twitter Local - should be .net - the .com goes to what I think is a parked page. Looks very neat for the local biz area ;-)

Best get back at it here...

Thanks!
Michelle

Justin Brooke

Eeeks thanks for catching that Michelle... Another testimonial to why .com's are so much more valuable. I knew it was .net but I was just so used to writing .com that it came out almost like a reflex.

clickktdotcom

Wow, great list. Thank for commenting on my blog ^_^

Justin Brooke

And thank both of you for stopping by with your compliments!

marie

Great List!! Hey, This is really helpful...

Dr. Sally Witt

Excellent list and comments. Thank you!

Dr. Sally Witt
Social Media & Networking Coach/Trainer

<abbr>Dr. Sally Witt’s last blog post..Please consider voting for me on Twibs!</abbr>

Glenn

Great stuff guys!

This is probably the most comprehensive Twitter guide I've come across. I'll be sure to return to this page when I have more time to try all these sites and tools.

Thanks,
Glenn

Justin Brooke

So glad the three of you liked it so much. If you all ever have a topic you want to hear more about please let us know.

Purebred Dogs

Great blog post - it's great the way you've compiled all these Twitter apps all together here and the video really adds a lot of valuable info to it.

Keep up the good work guys and I'll keep watching,
Deb

<abbr>Purebred Dogs’s last blog post..Apr 6, Build a Website All Your Own.</abbr>

Maggie

No wonder you guys are so successful.

Gonna follow the advice!

Great Stuff again.

Many thanks.

Love and Light

Anthony

Another Great Bunch of Twitter Tips & Tweaks!

Thanks Guys,

Anthony

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David Enders, D.C.

Some great information Thanks

FYI: here is a good book on Twitter:

Twitter Handbook - How Social Media & Mobile Marketing are Changing the way we do Business & Market Online by Deborah Micek & Warren Whitlock

David

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Justin Brooke

Yes it is a great book, I'm quite friendly with Debbie, she's a great business mind.

Russ

Spot on ! You guys nail it everytime ...enjoy your new beach treasure. Terrific area for an extraordinary twosome.
Thanks
You first had a "Belief in Mind"
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Justin Brooke

Thanks for all the compliments, and yeah we're hoping Treasure Island is as good everyday as it was the two days we visited.

DonovanMc

Justin, Chaunna,
As usual the 20 minutes was filled with excellent content. I did not expect to see the twitter resource sites posted. I will be sending this information out to my small list. I am beginning to see the importance of using Face Book, Tweeter and Blogs to build my list. Thanks for the info.

Justin Brooke

Yeah man, those three together are like love engineers for me. I use them to make people fall in love with my content and then show them where the paid stuff is at.

Kathy

I will send this to my twitter list. By the way, I sold my health site today for $550. I did this by using just your free info.
Thank you for the great info.
Chaunna Happy birthday :)

Justin Brooke

Thats rockin! But hey can we keep it quiet that my free info is good enough for people to make money off of... lol j/k

Doug McIsaac

Great list of tools. I've used a couple, but I'm very curious to check out ViralTweets,

Thanks,

Doug

<abbr>Doug McIsaac’s last blog post..Twitter in Plain English</abbr>

Justin Brooke

ViralTweets has done AWESOME things for my traffic and twitter follower building. Couldn't recommend it more.

Jay Leishman

PS.... Twitter Updater has been a lifesaver for me too... Can't forget that one Justin.

<abbr>Jay Leishman’s last blog post..Conversion tactics… Multivariate Test sites</abbr>

Suzy Bell

wow.
You guys are so stinkin cute and
full of awesome pertinent info. Always.
Thank you heaps!
Suzy Bell
ps. yas moving to Treasure Island?!
It's beautiful, I was there for a bellydance
workshop last fall.
Peace & keep on truckin!

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Justin Brooke

haha @ we're so stinkin cute... Yeah Treasure Island is amazing. You're a belly dancer! Thats awesome.

Jay Leishman

Ya the TweetMeMe Plugin is a given.... Nice list dude. Grabbed a few there that I'm gonna steal(borrow!)

<abbr>Jay Leishman’s last blog post..Conversion tactics… Multivariate Test sites</abbr>

Meirav

Thanks for putting all these resources together. Recently the amount of Twitter applications and Twitter related services has gone through the roof and its very difficult to find and follow all of them. So thanks for the information. It is definitely useful.

Thanks X 1000,
Meirav
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twitter.com/hypnoclub

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Justin Brooke

Yeah and it's still just the beginning I'll bet there will be a 1001 twitter tools post sometime in the next 2 years. haha

Bazz

Thanks, guys, I've been meaning to figure out this Twitter thing!

Justin Brooke

Thanks Bazz and Ray, glad you liked today's post. Hope it helps you get more clients or customers amongst all the new followers.

Ray Johnson

Nice job guys - keep up the great Twitter info

Regards

Ray Johnson

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David King

Great Resources...
I'm learning copywriting right now!
learning about credit, credit reports and fico score too!
excited for this new newsletter! thanks so much for the help man!

David King,

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Justin Brooke

Learning copywriting is one of the best things you can do man. Basically, write your own paychecks for life once you know it. I use it for everyday reasons too like getting the wife to agree with me on stuff hahaha

steve

Thanks for the posts Justin.

I am not much a tweeter guy yet. I suppose I should get into it.

I am hiring out some of my work now its nice to have more free time to work with my clients.

Justin Brooke

Yeah you should definitely get into twitter more and social media in general. It's one of my largest traffic producers and I get clients/customers from doing it.

Steve

This post is definitely worth a retweet! Thanks for all your help in putting this resource together. I am particularly interested in twibs and wefollow. Again, thanks for your ingenuity and creativity, and for adding value to the rest of us birds out here on twitter.

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