I have about 2600 and it's maybe taken me a year. Most of the people I follow are in my target market - moms.
Guys, what do you think about twitter effectivity for a webservice promotion? I think it's bad in this case... Twitter can only be good for a hidden marketing of some goods but not for services!
The most effective way to increase your twitter followers is by following others. The second most effective way is retweeting.
Looking at your Twitter account that doesn’t sound like the best advice to be honest, I have around 4,500 targeted followers, and believe me, it took more the following and RT'ing Thanks for your input
I average about 10 new followers a week by doing nothing. Retweeting does help. Tell me besides the link your provided how do you gain more followers? I use Twaitter to automates it all. I have 20 articles scheduled that get posted through twaitter every 4 hours daily. Every time someone follows me it sends them one of 5 automated messages I have on standby. You can have thousands of followers but if they don't read what your tweeting then it is a absolute waste of your time. Each time I create new content it is automatically forwarded to twitter. So in essence you are right it is not just RT's and following others. He wanted to know the quickest way to build his following and befriending others is the quickest way. Just so happens I did not take that route but many others will tell you the samething around here.
I haven't been a big user of Twitter, mainly because it seems spam like to me unless you have a main brand account or a big follower list.