Twitter Automation Tips

- How do I get more followers? -
That seems to be the million dollar question: how do I get more people to follow me on Twitter? Well, you're not famous, so that might seem like the biggest hurdle. One thing you need to keep in mind is that you have to keep your follower/following ratio to about 10%. To stay under Twitter's spammer radar, you need to hover around that number. You can have a million followers and not follow anyone yourself but you can not follow a million people and have no followers at all. It doesn't work that way. The process I use is to follow any one who is in network marketing and related fields by utilizing the search feature on Twitter. Then I unfollow people that have not followed me back over a 24-hour period. To figure out who's not following me back, I use mytweeple.com. It's a neat little tool that organizes everyone in my Twitter circle into four catagories: People I Follow, People that Follow Me, Mutual Followers (people that I follow that also follow me), and Everyone. There are many different programs; this is just the one I recommend and it's free. There I can scrub my list by unfollowing everyone who has not followed me back in a timely fashion. I only give it 24 hours because I might be following people that are inactive or aren't serious Twitter users. My objective is to get more followers. Since there's that 10% followers to following ratio, it's important to consistently unfollow anyone who's not following you back within a certain time-frame. Another way to get more followers is to follow people in your field that already have alot of followers, but that is a more timely process I'll cover in another article.

- How do I automate my tweets? -
Automating your tweets is another great way to save time and get more people to follow you on Twitter. There are a lot of automation sites out there, some free and some paysites. The key is finding one that makes things easier for you. I highly recommens socialoomph.com. It's both a paysite and a free site. The free features work fine for Twitter alone. There is a "schedule new tweets" tab on your welcome page and it's pretty self explanitory from there. A key point to remember is to stagger out your tweets all day. On this particular site, you schedule what seems to be an endless amount of updates over a 24-hour period. I try to do one tweet an hour so as to not frustrate my followers. Also, it is important to add value to your tweets; don't post your website or opportunity 24 times in a row! Mix it up with some interesting quotes and educational content. Write some useful articles, post some videos, use humor and be yourself! Watch the trends on your feed page; what do you see that you like or dislike? Automation is cool because it allows you to free up time to do other things, but make sure you take a conservative approach.
- How do I keep up with everyone? -
Good news! You don't have to keep up with everyone. In due time you will build up your own following and have a pipeline full of like-minded individuals to lead and learn from.