A few observations about Twitter

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Here are a few observations about Twitter:

1. More followers is always better (or at least no worse) than few followers. If nothing else, you just don't have to interact with more people at once than you can handle.

2. You get "street cred" when you have tons of followers. I have about 50K or so (under a Twitter account of the same name as my handle here), and I have everyone from aspiring hip hop artists to minor celebrities contacting me.

3. Unless you're Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber, there really is no sure fire way to build a huge following. Mostly, people will follow you if you follow them back, and vice versa. Justunfollow is very useful for this.

4. If you get 1 out of 10 or even 100 to interact with you long term, you're probably doing really well. There are a lot of bots and a lot of zombie accounts on Twitter.

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Looking to Exchange Spots on Blog Roll

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I am currently looking to exchange spots on the blog roll of my blog with a similar blog with complimentary subject matter and reasonable traffic. While I am not too picky about what blogs I exchange with, I do have a few requirements:

1. Your blog must generate at least 100+ visitors per day: My blog is currently sitting at about 200-300 visitors per day, and I am planning to increase that as time goes on. So, to be worth my while, your blog needs to have at least 100 visitors per day -- with more being better.


2. The subject matter must be complimentary: Even though I do appreciate all of the hard work that mommy bloggers or makeup tutorial bloggers put into their sites, I am not sure how interested their visitors are going to be in visiting my site. By design, my site tends to appeal to the male crowd, probably in the 15-45 range, with a sprinkling of other demographics thrown in because of the entertainment news and the animal videos. So, please appeal to that demographic.

3. YOU CANNOT BE A SPLOGGER: I felt like I had to put that one in all caps because I really need to emphasize it. Every so often, I will get someone from the Far East (like Indonesia or the Philippines) that wants to exchange blog roll listings with me. When I go to check out their website, the whole thing is a massive advertisement with very little original (or even good) content. If this describes your website, don't bother.

4. You must have the blog roll prominently displayed on your site: My blog roll is pretty far up the side bar on my site. I don't think it's fair to exchange with someone who has their blog roll shoved in the corner of their site somewhere.


5. You must have less than 20 links on your blog roll OR you must have it automatically update to list the blogs that have recently posted at the top: Again, as my blog roll updates to place the most recent entries at the top and it only shows five entries at a time, I think it's unfair to exchange with someone who has 150 blog roll entries and mine is shoved somewhere near the bottom.

6. You must post to your blog regularly: I want some blogs with constant new content in my blog roll. If you only write an entry once every few months or so, it's not going to add anything to my blog content-wise.

If you meet all of these requirements and you're interested in exchanging places on blog rolls, please either leave a comment below or find me on Twitter @futuretwitblog. Thanks.
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Twitter is Worth a Few Billion Dollars, huh?

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A little disclaimer: I have about 30K Twitter followers, and I regularly tweet out posts for my internet blog http://futuretwit.com (and it generates a lot of traffic). Having said that however . . .

I don't understand the world's fascination with Twitter.

I understand my personal fascination with it. I have a blog and I like the traffic it generates. I just don't understand what the people who follow me on Twitter get out of it.

I mean, if you have more than about 10 followers, there is no way on earth that you can keep up with all of the tweets that hit your inbox (unless you have people who use it more like an email service and only tweet when someone has a baby -- but why not just use email instead). The number of times I've actually clicked on a link that someone sent out on Twitter (from among the 30K or so people I follow) is in the low double digits, and I probably wouldn't even have an account right now except for the fact that I have a blog.

To me, Twitter just seems like a glorified chat room along the lines of AOL or Yahoo from the mid 1990's. I just don't see anything that a person could do from Twitter that they couldn't do better from another internet service, and without the whole world knowing about what they're doing.

In terms of anyone paying billions of dollars for Twitter, unless they're preparing to dump the stock and make a quick buck, I just don't see it. Twitter isn't going to be around in five years, maybe not in three years. I just don't see it filling a need large enough in people's lives to keep it going, especially as technology keeps improving and the platform gets competition from services like Google and Facebook.

But, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Twitter is worth billions of dollars.

And if you believe that, I have a bridge that I want to sell you :)

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How to Automatically Add 1000+ Followers Per Day on MySpace with IMarco Script

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I just thought that I would share with everyone a cool little trick that I found to add 1000+ followers per day on Myspace. Sure, I know that MySpace is old school and probably 80% of the accounts are inactive, but the website isn't dead by any means -- at least not yet. So, I thought I would share a quick post to tell my readers how to add 1000 plus people on MySpace, should they be so inclined. Honestly, I am being humble by claiming 1000 people per day. I have had days where I've added 10,000 people using this method. Here is the step-by-step method below:

1. Download the IMacros Add-on for Firefox: I believe that this script will work also if you have the full edition of IMacros, but I haven't checked that personally yet. The full version of IMacros requires you to pay after a 30 day free trial, and I think that software, like sex, is best when it's free :) So, I just downloaded the add-on, which I know is free.

To download the add-on, go to the IMacros add-on website and click the green download button. Follow the instructions on the website (and leave me a comment if you have any problems).

2. Run the following IMacros script: I wrote this simple little script to automatically add people. The link to the script is here. In case that doesn't work here is the text of the script:

VERSION BUILD=7210419 RECORDER=FX
TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.myspace.com/my/pymk?view=grid
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:CHECKBOX ATTR=ID:selectAll CONTENT=YES
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Friend
TAG POS=1 TYPE=BUTTON ATTR=TXT:OK
WAIT SECONDS=12

To explain, the  first three lines of the script take you to the "People You May Know" section of the MySpace website. The fourth line selects all of the people on that page, the fifth line clicks the "Friend" button, and the sixth line selects "Ok" in the dialogue box that pops up to add the people as friends. The seventh line is to allow the MySpace website to send out friend requests to all of the people you just added before trying to load a new page. So, you can add edit the script if needed.


I am not sure why, but the add limits in MySpace are currently broken, meaning that you can get away with making copious amounts of friend requests per day. Even if MySpace ever fixes this glitch, you can still use it to add people up to the friend limit for the day.

Is MySpace dying? Maybe. Will MySpace eventually fix the glitch that allows someone to make friend requests like this? Almost certainly. However, for right now, this program program works, so enjoy :)

Here is a gratuitous shot of a pretty girl for you to enjoy:

Gratuitous Shot of a Pretty Girl

Leave a comment if you have any questions.

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Two Absolutely Essential Tools to Mass Follow in Twitter

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One of the best ways to make sure that the word gets out about your product or website is to use Twitter to constantly tweet out updates to legions of eager followers. The best way to get these followers is through "mass following" and "mass unfollowing" users from the millions of active Twitter accounts. Unfortunately, Twitter has recently closed down a lot of the loopholes and websites that made doing this a cinch. Fortunately for you, they missed a couple of websites along the way. Click to read more about two essential websites that will allow you to grow your Twitter account by mass following and unfollowing. Hurry, before Twitter closes these websites down too!

1. tweepi.com: This is one of the last of the refollow.com type websites where a user can log on and generate a quick and extensive list of users to follow en masse. The interface is clean and simple enough to make mass following and unfollowing; although, the website owners are currently updating to a beta version to make the user interface even more appealing. The website also offers mass unfollowing capabilities, but I really prefer the second website for this purpose.

2. justunfollow.com: This website is like a godsend for anyone looking to mass unfollow Twitter accounts (or even just to clean up the deadbeats on a regular account who won't follow back). The load times for loading even as many as 15,000 followers, the number on my @FutureTwitBlog account, are only a few seconds with a high speed internet account. Better yet, the site will rank the nonfollowers in terms of the accounts who have gone the longest without following back -- a great tool for making sure that you don't accidentally unfollow recently followed Twitter acounts by mistake -- before they have an adequate chance to follow back.

Using these two tools should make mass following and unfollowing on Twitter easier than ever. I personally have been able to add thousands of new users to my Twitter account @FutureTwitBlog by using these tools by doing using these websites in my spare time. Good luck in your mass following endeavors on Twitter.

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