Twitter Followers… an interesting trend
I have kind of experimented somewhat with Twitter these past few months when I opened a second profile.
When I started @timeontaskva I built my following one by one, picking people I wanted to be connected with and following them back if I made the choice. Nothing automated about it.
With @mytwitrva I started it off with some followers and then sent it on its merry way with some automated systems for following.
The results are most interesting…
The profile I built by hand has more followers that have value to me, ones I enjoy connecting with. The more automated profile is building up contacts that seem to have tweets/updates that don’t do much for me. Oh, there are contacts there that I do value, but the majority seem to publish updates such as: Make Money online guaranteed or Quickly grow your Twitter following go here …
The scary part is a few of these (not these two above) I recognized from having helped clients fix up some spamming and hacking issues with their twitter accounts. Each time, my clients had signed up and entered their twitter username and password to the systems promising lots of followers. Soon after, some funky stuff started happening with their accounts – spam posts/updates were published from their twitter accounts. In one case the account was suspended. Not good.
I keep cleaning out the second account so that it will give me connections I would prefer, but that takes more time and eventually I will have to spend even more time and energy to make the contacts I wanted in the first place.
Lesson learned from this is an age old one: Quality vs Quantity.
You can certainly build up quantity and have quality; but only if you seek out quality while doing so. Many of these promises and guarantees may not bring you the value you are looking for, not that I am saying they are all bad 
.
A little something to keep in mind as you go about “Building your Tribe”.
Tags: contacts, quality, Twitter, virtual assistant
