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I’ve been following John Chow’s advice since last week on how to get more targeted Twitter followers. Here is his advice in a snapshot:
1. Search on search.twitter.com for keywords in your niche.
2. Follow all the twitter users on the search results.
3. These users will starts following you back.
4. After 48 hours, unfollow all those that did not follow back using friendorfollow.com.
5. Rinse and repeat.
Just like what he said, this is a slow and painful way, but still effective on getting followers. For just a week of doing it, I already have 2300+ followers, I started with 300+ followers last week. See the graph below!
Twitter Counter Graph
However, I did not strictly follow his advice and did some change of plans to make it faster, almost semi-automatic. Here’s what I actually did:
Instead of doing a search for the keywords on my niche and painfully following each user on the result, I simply follow John Chow’s followers! 
Why? Following each user on the search results takes time: you click on one of the search result to open his twitter page, wait for the page to load, then you click the follow button, then close the page and move to the next user. That really takes time. However, following John Chow’s user is simple. You open his follower’s page and click the follow button all the way from the top to bottom. You can follow 20 users in less than a minute. 
Since we are on the same “Make Money Online” niche, I’m sure that his followers are of the same interest as mine. Easy, isn’t it?
I also modified step 4 to make my life easier. Instead of using the friendorfollow.com site, where you get a list of people you follow who don’t follow you back, then you open their twitter page and unfollow them that takes a lot of time, I used tweepular.com instead! With Tweepular, you can get the list of people who don’t follow you back and you can easily unfollow them with a single click of your mouse. No visiting their twitter page. A single click, and 200 of them are unfollowed in an instant. Almost instantly. Almost automatic!
What’s the purpose of getting tons of Twitter followers? Lots of followers mean lots of people reading your tweets. It’s easier to get your voice out there, specially if your followers are targeted and know exactly what you are tweeting about. Some people are actually making lots of money because of this. And I want to be one of them. Maybe, in the near future.
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April 27th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
wow! oo nga no! ang dami agad ah.. nabasa ko din tong post na to kay john chow, kasi tinamad me.. Katamaran nga naman, walang mangyayaring mabuti pag tamad.. tsk tsk..
April 27th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
That’s a brilliant idea
I’m more of a Plurk user though. xD
April 28th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Effective nga yang technique na yan, pero pansinin mo yung mga new followers mo, hindi naman sila yung mga finollow mo diba? Bakit kaya?
April 28th, 2009 at 9:50 am
slowly but surely does it.
April 28th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Will try!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I tried it. it works! pwede ko ng ibandera ang tweeter counter ko, maraming na kasing followers eh. ahehehehe.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
mga gano kalaki ung potential na kita sa tweeter follower na more or less 2000 followers?
April 29th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Definitely a surefire strategy for building up your list on Twitter. Granted it is slow, but it is effective nonetheless. By the way, thanks for sharing that tweepular website! I never liked the fact of having to manually unfollow, but that definitely saves some time!
April 29th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Thank you so much for the link to the tweepular site. I’m headed that way now.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
ano ba ang use ng twitter? for announcement lang naman db? no-follow ang link mo dun eh. tama ba ako?
April 29th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
okay, now the question is: should i follow your followers too?
(big smile)
thanks,
-Nhoel of keywordspeak.com
April 29th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
may tanong lang ako. bakit itong post na ito ang nauna eh late naman ang date. hmm.
May 1st, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Aba! Akalain mo?
Hehehe, oks to erap ah, you have got my follow and I WILL buy you a beer if I get my follows up using your method as taught J. Chow haha!
May 4th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
i tried following the hard way, using the search function of twitter. but then, the next day, twitter and other social networks got banned in the office. and i got some connection problems with my N82 too. I couldn’t connect to smart internet.
so much for my tweeting. i’ll be back soon!
May 5th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
I read a twitt from Marghil to use a great tool, I use it now to add followers in a flash http://twitseeker.com/f
May 5th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
There are many people trying to make money online, but there are many different ways to do so,… Now I m wondering why your Keywords are abou “making money Online”,.. I guess your Followers (Who look for the same Keywords) are not your potential customers, but potential Competitors,…
May 7th, 2009 at 1:36 am
bakit po 0pagerank si http://www.selaplana.com upon checking it on http://www.prchecker.info? db tropa good naman ang blogging nya? baka tinago nya? ganun ba yun?
May 7th, 2009 at 7:27 am
hello po sa inyo. ako po’y isang noob na blogger mga ate at kuya. sino po pwede kong gawing mentor? i need your expertise on blogging. shoot me an email naman po sa mga may matatabang puso –> koykix@yahoo.com
May 8th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Salamat sa napaka-useful mong advise. I tried it myself and see great improvements on traffic on my NBA PLAYOFFS site. I just searched for NBA playoffs keyword, and found a guy with 700+ followers. Jackpot!
Keep up the good work man, thanks for sharing!
May 8th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
wow this is work!! i just got 500 follows on 2 days
May 8th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
hhmmm… not really suing twitter that much becoz i’m so into plurk… hehehe… pero I will still try your tips… and let’s see hhehehe…
May 10th, 2009 at 2:03 am
I was woundering more about your monitazion strategy doing this. It seems like a lot of work.
May 20th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
try ko to marhgil.. thanks.. baka may bumili sa binebenta ko
May 27th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Great technique, I also use http://www.twellow.com Plug in a keyword and follow, follow, follow!
Rob
May 29th, 2009 at 2:33 am
wow, this is so cool..i should try this one too.. thanks for the heads up!
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:02 pm
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June 10th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Hi
I read your post on Twitter and building a huge list with great interest. You must be one of the rare few I have found on the net who has written with honesty and with a genuine care to share.
I am an absolute babyboomer newbie – in other words I am of ‘mature age’
Can you kindly show me or take my hand (so to say) to guide me on how to set up this Twitter idea of yours? I don’t have a topic as yet but as you can see I can write well. I am OK to log on Twitter and set up an account. I am kind lost after that to know how to monetize it and make money.
Any advice?
I simply would love to build a Twitter site, build a huge list fast, and make money from it…but I don’t quite know how to actually get it all going.
Any advice?
Kind regards from Sydney Australia
Burton
June 11th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Twitter is a proven effective way to create a marketing network in the internet. Good to know you have more than 2k followers now.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:32 am
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June 18th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
this is a great post! will try to follow your tops
I was amazed when i first saw your follower’s it was still around 10k but now its almost 2x that number? wow
June 27th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
i think gets ko na how this stuff works, i came across your blog, this particular blog, then i got curious if it’s really possible to earn like this. more tips pls. this extra income could really help me in supporting my studies.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:50 am
pre sinunod ko ung naka post d2 eh,,, parang na suspend for few hours ung account ko… araw araw kc ako ng follow ng 200 account…. ndi mba na experience sayo un? mga ilan lang ang fina-follow mo per day pra ndi ma banned ung account sa twitter ????
August 16th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
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August 18th, 2009 at 12:11 am
I followed this and it really works, although I noticed things got slower after I reached 2000 followers. After the 2K mark, I can only follow an additional 200+ people per day. Now I already have 3K followers, and I’m actually getting the hang of tweeting. Thanks for sharing these excellent tips!
August 22nd, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Great bro, I am actually watching Ryan Deiss and Perry Belcher’s membership site talking about this one. You know what, your info costs 97USD.
August 25th, 2009 at 7:58 am
galing mo naman!!! hehe idol! i want to follow you! tell me how
my username in Twitter is PinoyClickster!
August 25th, 2009 at 8:04 am
no need to tell me how..i’m already following you
thank you and more power!