<a href="http://www.programmingformarketers.com/automatic-twitter-followers/" rel="nofollow">http://www.programmingformarketers.com/automatic-twitter-fol...</a><p>It's dirty but it works.<p>I'm of the opinion that it's important to maintain a good ratio of following:followers<p>If you follow 10,000 but only have 100 followers then people will assume you're spam and not follow you.<p>You can also use something like <a href="http://quuu.co/" rel="nofollow">http://quuu.co/</a> which automates the posting of content via Buffer.<p>Alternatively, you could just join Twitter conversations naturally and build your following that way.<p>In my experience, Twitter doesn't give the best traffic (both quantity and quality) compared to other acquisition sources.
1- Use Moz.com Followerwonk or similar tools to find the followers and the people who follow (and their followers and the people who they follow) the influencers in your sector.<p>2- Find if they publish any blogs with RSS fields<p>3- take those feeds and build an IFTTT script to publish links to those blog stories, you can also link to them through your own automated story aggregation site (you can use IFTTT to publish to Tumblr, adding links to your own product concatenated to the RSS story.<p>4- Be ready to turn your IFTTT bots off at any moment, if necessary<p>5- Eventually because you've been automatically published links to stories with the same context, other Twitter followers will find your Twitter feed.<p>6- Prepare yourself to suspect that the majority of Marketers' Twitter accounts may not be all human after all /s
Get influencers to follow you. It's easier to convince the one than the 1,000 but if you get the 1, the 1,000 will follow.<p>Follow and engage a few verified users in your niche, maybe they'll follow back.