Comments on: 5 Reasons Why You Should NOT Buy Followers Or Friends

By: New Comm Biz » What Comes Next? Part 2: The Suckage!

New Comm Biz » What Comes Next? Part 2: The Suckage! — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:28:31 +0000

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By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:41:25 +0000

Bought followers are so fickle. Run a competition on Twitter and you will likely see a spike (if you have a good prize!), but as soon as the competition ends the majority disappear. I know because I have done it. A few may stick but it is not a true targetted audience.

By: kaerast

kaerast — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:42:44 +0000

There's not much I can say on organically growing followers which hasn't already been said: good content, respond to your followers' questions, and remember twitter doesn't literally want to know what you are doing right now. I'd be interested in your tips though.

By: rohan_ittygrow

rohan_ittygrow — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:08:50 +0000

Yeah, buying followers is akin to buying traffic. Say you sold cement mixers.

From where are you more likely to get a cement mixer sale?

A) The 1,000 people that came to your site when you bought exit traffic from a totally unrelated site? Or

B) The one person that found your site when they searched for "buy cement mixers"...

It's a no-brainer. Search engines aren't the old marker of interest of course, but I think this speaks to Corvida's point: A follower who doesn't have genuine interest in your stuff doesn't advance your goals any.

By: Corvida

Corvida — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:25:18 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree kaerast. And yes, good content is definitely one of the keys. I may follow up later today or tomorrow on the keys I've used to organically growing my followers.

What do you think? Would you be interested in reading, reflecting, and sharing such tips with myself and others?

By: kaerast

kaerast — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:57:26 +0000

I think it's important to remember that you aren't just buying followers. By gaining a large number of followers it means you go up in rankings and so are more likely to be recommended through natural means, and those natural followers are worth far more to you than people you have paid to follow you.

Actual good content is far more likely to get a decent number of followers though, and people paying for followers are just jealous of the people who can write good content.