Jan 13, 2010 
From 13 December 2009 to today (13 January 2010) I have increased my followers on Twiter from 2576 to3527 and they are still increasing. My target is to get my followers up to at least 50,000 this year.
To do this I have not used any of the advertised follower building tools as when I have used some of them in the past they have not worked.
All I have done is to pick someone who I am following and start following their other followers at a rate of about 150 at a time. I have not done this every day but probably only every third or fourth day. By doing this I have had a lot of them follow me back but also a lot of other people have also followed me.
I get some people with no followers and/or no tweets following me and these people I do not follow back. If someone follows me with only a few tweets <5 with in some cases 20,000 followers I do not tend to follow them. Likewise someone with only a few followers, in this case I consider their tweets in detail to see if they interest me.
I have recently been emailed about a service which promises to build a Twitter following of at least 5,000 when you have no tweets and no followers to start with, hence my reason for not following these people back.
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