If you are interested in social networking then you must have heard about Twitter. Twitter is the next most important and worldwide popular social networking site. Simple users use Twitter to gain more knowledge in form of tweets. If you are completely new to Twitter than check out my post on setting up Twitter. SEO experts use this social networking resource to make more and more followers. The technique of making more and more twitter followers has worked as a prime factor for raising the popularity graph of many sites in the past. The idea of increasing the twitter followers was to widen the reach of a business to the maximum potential customers.
Not only the popularity of a website increases by thousands of followers but the business with thousands of followers also looks more reliable to the visitors. This is the reason why many new online businesses and money making sites aim to get the tons of twitter followers. In the race of getting more followers, the webmasters hire some specialized companies for increasing the database of their followers on Twitter. There are some reliable service providers that help in getting the huge list of followers but there are also some providers that try false techniques to build the list of twitter followers. Although a business with thousands of twitter followers looks good but there are also some disadvantages of it. Let’s discuss the disadvantages of buying the thousands of twitter followers and then try something that is good for our business or blog.
Quality is not assured with too many followers
Buying thousands of twitter followers is not the assurance of quality because most of the service providers that provide these tons of followers use some automated tools to complete the task. TweetAdder is a prime example of this and I still don’t understand why so many people use this software. If your preference is quality above quantity then either do not use this service or if you want too many followers then select the service provider carefully. Will you like to have too many followers if I tell you that most of those will not be human? I guess your answer might not be NO. Am I right? I am sure, I am right. No service provider tells this to their client because then the order may slip from their grip but this happen mostly so if you are buying twitter followers then beware of this.
ROI is not guaranteed
The twitter followers may buy your products or services or they may not so the return of investment is not guaranteed with too many twitter users following you. If you are ordering big packages or buying twitter followers then beware that this investment might not turn a buck for you. Thus if your expectation is high in terms of profit then be cautious in hiring a provider. Chances are the account will just be bots or fake accounts.
Your personal information is at risk
Too many followers mean that too many twitter users will have access to your profile. It means that your personal information can be accessed by anyone in your followers and they can use it for any purpose. This is how your personal information is at risk every time. The only way to be save from this risk is to not buy followers.
Reading the disadvantages above is sufficient to explain what is bad about buying twitter followers so take safe steps if you are going to buy thousands of twitter followers.
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There’s no way I’d buy Twitter followers. By far the best way to win them is on the strength of what you share and how often you engage with others. If you tweet interesting and relevant stuff then you’ll get followers who are genuinely interested in your take on things. Sure, it’s nice to get lots of them. But quality is much more important.
Hey Matt,
I think so many people try to get a ton of followers even if they are not related, which really doesn’t do any good. It’s essentially like having a lot of Monopoly money
I don’t know why anyone would want to buy followers, or even have a huge number of followers unless you’ve acquired them the natural way. I’d rather look for real people I have something in common with, and follow them. They will usually follow me back.
Willena
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I agree it makes no since and dirty marketers use this tactic as if it means something. So you have 200K followers do they ever interact wit h you? I would rather have 10 great followers than 10,000 bots following me any day!
Hi Garen,
Thanks for sharing the warnings about buying Twitter followers. Personally I wouldn’t do it because Twitter is a social platform and in my opinion, it isn’t the correct way to use it for my needs.
I think I mentioned in my last comment that I am re-vamping my account. I’m deleting all non-followers, then I plan to manually connect with my friends so we can follow each other. When I started marketing, I didn’t understand the power of Twitter and I followed a lot of people assuming they would follow back. That is not the case. Twitter is no different than any other social platform. If used correctly it is a great way to engage and develop relationships. I want to be able to recognize every follower I have. That is one of my goals for 2013. I prefer organic and quality followers. Great information!
Raena Lynn
Raena Lynn
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Hey Raena,
Yeah it still dumbfounds me on why people do this. It’s not really about the numbers but the quality of followers. Sure let me know when you revamp your Twitter. Also, make sure you share good content your readers would like.
Hi Garen, Interesting topic. I would never buy followers. However, you mentioned Tweetadder in that vein. I use TA, but not as a tool to gain followers, but more to automate my tweets. You do have to monitor it and weed out the ones who are not real. It is important to focus on relationships. There is no point in having thousand of followers if they don’t even see your tweets! lol
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Have a tweeter day,
Lynn
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Hey Lynn,
It’s a topic I think so many people need to be aware of. Who cares if you have a bunch of bots following you. TA is bad to automate tweets. I use HS for this and like how it will automate to all profiles not just Twitter. It’s like Scrapebox, not a bad program, but people don’t use it right. Find good places to manual blog comment. Not blast tons of generic comments out.