7 Ways to Tell A Good Twitter Follower From a Bad Twitter Follower

One of the question you should ask yourself on Twitter is whether you should follow someone back. The question you should really ask is: "do I mind loosing this follower?" In order to decide this you need to ask if they are a good follower or a bad follower. A bad follower:

Bad Follower

1.   Follows huge numbers of people. So they are not following you. 

2.  Constantly replies with dull chit chat. You will gain nothing from following. 

3.  Never or rarely retweets. 

4. Has very few followers - less than 100. They are a nobody. 

5. Tweets very often or all at once. They will clog up your feed and get you so annoyed you will unfollow eventually anyway. 

Finding out a good follower is easier

Good Follower

1. Is followed by a lot more people than follows them (high follower to following ratio). This means they want to follow you and are a "somebody". 

2. Has the verified symbol. 

There is a good bit of software called The Twit Cleaner that I have used. 

Top Five Ways To Loose Twitter Followers

1. Tweeting Too Much. If someone opens up Twitter and has to scroll past twenty posts by you before being able to read anyone else they will get annoyed and unfollow.

2. Tweeting Too Little - its all about balance. You need to interact with Twitter and your followers to be noticed. You need enough tweets to get people reading, retweeting, replying and also to show up in several topics (that's what the # is).

3.  Being Boring. If you tweet about your lunch, or worse your poo people read that tweet and wonder why they follow you. The more interesting a tweet the more likely it will be retweeted, replied to and favorited.

4. Spamming Celebrities. Tweeting very occasionally to celebrities with highly relevant and targeted approach will make you look influential and professional when you get a few genuine replies - but if you get nothing it does not matter as the tweets were good anyway. However if you write "what's up?" or "What you doing" to  celebrities your follower count will diminish. Its being aggressively boring.

5. Unfollowing Others. Many people on twitter only follow you because you follow them (sad I know but true). People who follow a large number of people and are followed by a similar number usually keep track of who is unfollowing them with twitter apps (how do you think they keep follower and following numbers the same?). Though these people don't make very great followers anyway.

Getting more Twitter Followers Free with Twiends Review. Scam?

First things, first, I don't think that Twiends is a scam - I can see no evidence to suggest this. They have never updated my twitter feed and have provided me with followers. Though I have never used the paid version. When you read their about section you see how they are trying to operate within Twitters Terms and Conditions.

Twiends Explained

The basic concept behind Twiends is pretty good. and very simple. You follow someone in return for so many "seeds" (usually between 2 and 9). The seeds that you gain can be used to gain followers.  I was very impressed with how fast my follower count grew.

Drawbacks

However, there are major drawbacks with Twiends. The main one is that people follow and then unfollow you so you have wasted seeds. In addition people who use Twiends tend to have be following huge numbers of people so don't make very good followers.

However

Despite this there are advantages to simply having a high number of followers even though most of your followers are following so many people they hardly notice you. For example these crap followers do generally retweet a lot so as your follower numbers increase your retweet rate increase. Also having a large following gives you, strangely, credibility. People look at you as being influential and known whereas what you are really doing is just trying to punch above you weight.

Overall 

I would say that using Twiends is worthwhile. For a start you can get 10 seeds (at most 5 followers) simply for logging in so if nothing else this is worth doing. It is a good way to get started and let people know you have arrived on the Twitter scene.