If you want to attract readers, members, purchasers or simply visitors to you blog or cluster of blogs, Twitter is an outlet which you cannot afford to neglect. Just as every blog attracts a certain audience which relates to its subject matter and its writer’s style, a single twitter account is actually a topically-based news and commentary feed.
And it draws a crowd, in much the same manner as a blog does, but often more easily (people have less patience, and they are not quite as particular about becoming Twitter followers as they are about becoming blog email or RSS Feed subscribers).
There is also a great synergy -- you can attract visitors to your blogs by using your blog address in your Twitter Profile, and you can attract followers to your Twitter account by simply posting a Twitter Follow Button at the bottom of your blog.
You can choose from an assortment of Twitter buttons here:
https://twitter.com/about/resources.
This same site also generates widgets, logos and other magnetic adornments for the footer section of your blog posts and RSS Feed posts. If you want to customize the look of your site and get especially fancy, you can conduct a Google Search on such word strings as “twitter+icons,” “twitter+buttons,” “twitter+graphics” and the like. Search both the web and images (on the upper left-hand selection toolbar of the Google page). Many of these are quite nice, and they are free as well.
Here are some sites for you to explore -- they are either free or very inexpensive sources for building a following for each of your themed (keyword- or topic-based) Twitter accounts. Visit each, then hit the “BACK” button in your browser, and look at the next. These services do not require that you purchase lists of “guaranteed followers.”
The only other essential tools you should have in order to centrally manage all of your blogs and twitter accounts are TWITTERFEED (free, and available at http://twitterfeed.com), and TWEETADDER, which requires a one-time expenditure but which is the best tool of its kind for managing multiple Twitter accounts (up to thousands of separate accounts, if you’d like) and Twitter followers (up to millions of followers -- you may wish to start a cult....just kidding).
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Here are the sites to review:
http://www.twellow.com/
http://www.free-followers.com/login.php
http://twiends.com/followers
http://twitclub.com/
https://twitter.com/about/resources
With the exception of the last link (discussed earlier), which is a wonderful site filled with twitter buttons, gadgets, logos, widgets and other highly-functional decorations to get your blogger audience to join your Twitter accounts as well, the the other ones are free, friendly, natural ways to rapidly build a strong following. I am not a big fan of paying for quantities of guaranteed followers -- the companies that provide these generally produce some twits with whom you would best not be associated, and they also tend to be somewhat unreliable.
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Regardless of the more liberal (and expensive) “get followers quick” approaches, a combination of the ones suggested above, along with TWITTERFEED and TWEETADDER, will build you solid, cohesive groups of follows who are the, members, subscribers or customers most likely to be converted to clients. Quantity is wonderful -- but quality is every single bit as important.
Douglas E. Castle [http://aboutDouglasCastle.blogspot.com],
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