So here is the thing that I find with most, not all but most of the tools that offer to explode my business, most of them are just straight out spam. Sorry don’t want to offend people but by offering to just follow someone for mentioning something in their twitter stream is a REALLY poor way of getting followers. You should MANAGE your users not SPAM them build a relationship by having the same interests and wanting to share the same information with those people. Notice the word SHARE social media is a two way stream although some forget this in there blatant disregard for everyone else’s tweets and just spit out thousands of their own affiliate links to basically poor quality products from clickbank.

I know some of you reading this will already be aware of the fact that I have been involved in the development of a product to properly manage your users. The product is called TweetPromote and that is a straight link through to the site if you want to go and have a look, if you don’t then no problem but please be aware of the fact that this has been designed in a way to not spam your way to getting banned.

“Banned, banned how the hell do you get banned”, I hear you cry. Well simple basically carry on autofollowing people (bots and porn included) and using all the tools to increase the number that you follow and follow you back, but you don’t actually benefit because the REAL people will eventually call you out and send you messages asking you to stop sending them trash and that includes auto DM´s!

I know of one account where the person who owned the account decided that they could make a lot of money from their twitter e-book about how to make loads of money from twitter. Well after sending the same message out once an hour for 3 weeks people started to ask them to stop. Eventually enough people blocked the account for Twitter to take action. Now this person had over 45,000 people that they were following and unfortunately because they didn´t give a damn about them they lost them and all the hard work that they put in to get those followers in the first place. Lesson learned the hard way.

TweetPromote (again a direct link should you want to go and have a look) doesn’t spam it simply helps you discover interesting people to follow so when you are followed back you are followed by people with the same interests. Not only that but it helps you not follow spam and bot accounts which are easy to see in the 100 user a page layout they have, you will see what I mean.

I have been using TweetPromote on my own account @bungeespin (please feel free to follow me if you would like to) And have seen it grow fairly rapidly with people who are interesting to me. People I enjoy talking to about the work that I do in SEO, Wordpress and Online Marketing, which good cause in the time I have been using the tool I have not only met some cool people but learned a lot as well.

As I have said all along Twitter is a hugely powerful tool for a great number of reasons yet if you abuse it then you will eventually suffer the consequences.  If you PROPERLY manage your users and treat them with respect, while making sure you talk about what you are both interested in, you will love the results.