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[Untitled] I notice the most efficient way to build a random follower base without spamming is to “Follow the Followers of Spammers”. Since the Followers of Spammers will apparently follow anybody who follows them (including spammers), they will also follow you.

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[Michael Gray - Graywolf SEO Blog] Blackhat Method for Increasing Your Twitter Followers: When you create a new profile on twitter, and the account is banned, twitter’s system does not remove it from the following count of others. So if you were to create thousands of fake profiles, and follow people could artificially inflate their follower counts without having to go through the trouble of finding real friends.

[Front-End Book] 3 Ways To Use Twitter - spamming is not one of them | Front-End Book: Twitter has gained an enormous amount of users in a short time, as always, the geeks where there first, and a lot of people think it is a geek thing, but, I am sure that tweeting will, as blogging has, move from the geeks to ordinary sane people with bigger interests than programming and internet. When that happens, we will see an explosion of different ways to use Twitter, or twitter-clones, enabling new features for spreading whatever users are interested to spread quickly to a wide network of connected followers.

[Content Matters] Content Matters: Twitter for the Social Good: With that comes risks that spammers and marketers will muck up a system that's just starting to take shape. Of course, with Twitter, you can't spam someone unless they follow you, so I'm hopeful that the Twitter environment will remain clean for a bit longer so that viral activities like the ones described here may continue to flourish.

[Social Media Vision] The 4 Stages Of The Twitter SeeSaw | Social Media Vision: @ Gilberti - Thanks for the Feedback and yes in essence is partly the same but I feel the Twitter Rockstar is just like any other celebrity in the real world sure they can write back to the millions of fans who sends them mail but they mainly don’t because they are pressed for time and they have that Rock Star status. The Twitter snobs are the average joes that just choose not to, great point though!

[burning the bacon with barrett] Mr. Tweet - Your Personal Twitter Assistant | burning the bacon ...: Last week I started following Mr. Tweet on Twitter who not only follows you in return, but makes recommendations on which influencers you should be following both within your existing network and beyond it. 

[Tweet For Bucks] Spam 2.0 | Tweet For Bucks: The trick is simple, someone signs up with Twitter, then they start adding people to follow by the dozens and they wait to the people they are following to start following them. Then the spam starts to show up in the feed for the Twitter spammer.

[(Anti) Social Development] How to Get Freelance Work with Twitter | (Anti) Social Development: Once and awhile include one of your links; Follow everyone back who follows you except for the spammers.

[Whedonesque | a weblog about Joss Whedon] Whedonesque : Comments on 18315 : Felicia Day is #46 of the Top ...: I love Twitter--the Whedonesquers I follow are often just as funny as the more famous folk, and at the same time, I use it as if it were an RSS feed to check out the headlines of the news blogs I read. It has become a sort of one-stop shop for me, and lately I've been forgetting to read the blogs I used to follow that don't have a Twitter feed.

[Damon Clinkscales] Wait, You’re Where? Or How To Easily Check Twitter Locations ...: NOTE: the geolocation stuff only works for the US right now. If you find this idea interesting, or maybe even my other Twitter apps SnapTweet (almost 1500 followers) and DoesFollow, perhaps you’d like to follow me and chat on Twitter.

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