Buying Twitter followers?

If you look at Twitter as whole, EVERYONE is sending links back and forth. The only people getting any real digital attention continue to be celebrities and famous people in their industries. The rest of us are just tiny little blue birds trying to climb up the tree to hang out with the bigger birds. Lists will shift some of the link farm to compartments but still all about tweet-and-link, tweet-n-link. If you get 1% of the followers to eve read your stuff, you're lucky.

Hello Stephen, well I am glad to see capitalism is alive and well in our lives. I am not sure if you are promoting these services or if you are really just reporting news? Lets discuss what we do know.
Anyone who sells you names is in it for the money. Regardless of whether it's a list on Twitter, FaceBook, or LinkedIn.
90% of those people won't listen to you since they don't know you.

I have been using Twitter for the past 8 months and am still learning how to maximize it's potential. I have a nice list I have gathered and tweek on a weekly basis. Do I think they all listen to me no, but some do and respond positively. Granted if you have money to burn on those services
then it may very well be something you could use. But do you really think it's worth it?

Nine times out of ten the people that have Oodles of followers are egoists that couldn't care less about you. If you want to be a sheep then promote fast followers if you want to become a "rock star" then have patience share important news and engage.

As for why people want tons of followers, why not? Bragging rights are a wonderful thing. As well, business owners think if they have tons of followers, the followers are actually paying attention and buying their products/services... the followers aren't buying, but business owners think they are.

There's plenty of reasons people want a huge following, but the only huge following that counts is one you actually follow yourself and give good value to, in my opinion... Twitter is like a big cocktail party - you can't make anyone talk to you unless you're interesting.

The Lonely Hearts analogy captures it I think...everyone wants some form of attention...some of us are willing to take it as the ambient intimacy that Twitter follower counts(or Facebook fans) provide...Some are willing to pay for faux intimacy...but that's always been true.

This is like one of those movies where you're watching a scene awaiting what will happen next, and then the movie ends abruptly.

I think you're starting to strike a chord, mainly that twitter is becoming a strong platform for promoting yourself in the workplace and elsewhere, but you could benefit from some substance.

There are some sites out there that give you people to follow, allow you to remove people who are not following you back and grow your twitter network. The problem with the sites like this that I have used is that you get followers and become followed by random people. I use Twellow to find targeted groups of people, it is a little slower but much more effective.

Jessica
http://nerdgirlsunlimited.etsy.com

I think it's a matter of people wanting quantity not quality to build up their "credibility".

A tweet containing a link, send to thousands of followers, can only have positive influence on the Google ranking for that domain. The question is only how big an influence - and is it worth the effort as an SEO?

I've had a Twitter account for about 6 months now, and have just under 7000 followers. I put some effort into it at the start, but slowly lost interest. Yes, there are some interesting tweets, but most just promote the usual products. Nothing wrong with that except that it's boring. I've now found a better way than recruiting tousands of un targeted followers. Set up a group or page in Facebook and invite fans who share similar interests. It's slower but these people actuallyy read what you write and respond. In fact I've noticed that some big names in the IM arena use their personal Facebook page. You can link your comments to Twitter and they'll go there too.
Cheers
Mark
Forex Trading System

Now it’s time to build up your followers, you will want to go out and find people who can use your products or services. There are two simple ways I suggest that you do this. 1. Example: If you are in the beauty business, go to your competitors and follow the people that are following them. 2.Or you can go to http://www.searchtwitter.com and search for people that are searching for what you have by using keywords that relate to your business.

The new feature on Twitter, the newest format to gain attention and the next step to recognition.

“Twitter Lists” of those you are Following.

You make yourself the curator of lists of those you are Following in collections of related interests. Your curation puts you on the Page of the celebrity or business contact you follow. Your List is shown as following the Celebrity on there Page.

So far these “Twitter Lists” have been well curated, so far.

Aggregating them will be the next step for advertisers to reaching the right peoples with the interests defined for the marketer.

I wish I had a website setup to sell 50000 Lists of Twitter Lists for $49.95.

At least you have to put some work into your Lists to get a connection.

I would like to know how much a business profits from people following it on twitter. I just created an account this week, but look forward to following interesting people and companies. If one of these groups tweets about an interesting event or promotion, I'd be likely to attend, or at the very least look into it.

Buying followers may not be such a bad idea. If I followed a random group, I think I would be just as likely to attend or look into an event or promotion if a tweet from the random group caught my eye.

Even if I owned an online store with frequent promotions I might consider buying followers for $49.95. A few people acting on a promotion would return the investment.