Twitter followers? How do they get so many?

[Andrew]

There are a number of ways to go about getting followers on Twitter. It is quite easy for famous people, because they already have fans, are often the subject of other people tweets and are frequently re-tweeted. But for commoners like us, capitalizing on our friends might not yield as many followers. The most effective way for most people is to follow a bunch people in hopes that they follow you back. This method works best if you follow only people with the same interests as you, and you consistently put out good tweets. You can use software like http://www.gettweetadder.com/a/ to search for twitter users with similar interests and schedule tweets in advance. You used to be able to use it to auto-follow people, which was awesome, but unfortunately Twitter doesn't allow that anymore.