Just add all of your friends and family...that is what twitter was made for! keeping in touch with friends and fam!
The easiest way would be blackhat .... find a free bot like phoenix twitter follower (google it) and use that to attract followers of the same niche or keyword.
For getting stats on followers and quickly following/flushing, I found that http://tweepi.com works well.
When I first signed up I just followed a bunch of people from my inputted search words and around half of them followed me back. I haven't used it since, but I guess that it's the best way to start off. There are a couple sites where you have to follow like 50 people then your name is placed in the site for other people to follow when they sign up. Only downside is they require your login details then post crap on your page, in which case, just change your password afterward. xP I forget the name of the site I used to use. EDIT: Woah, thanks for that link. This could work well too.
Make sure you post quality tweets in your niche which may interest other people in your peer group or niche. Then try to follow other people and most of them may choose to follow you back after they check out your profile page (your previous tweet records)
Just take it easy... If you do use other blackhat methods then your twitter account can be closed. Keep tweeting good stuff about the niche you are good at. People will start following you themselves. Once you have enough followers you will automatically get more followers without doing anything.
Just keep posting useful stuff and follow people will related interests and you'll see your followers grow.
when you add people they should add you back. i got a 20% using this. almost 2000 following, 400 followers, not bad, but lame xD
I just dug out the link to that site I was talking about. http://mytweetfollowers.net/ Code (markup):
Contests seem to work well if you can afford one, just make sure to have some sort of requirement about account activity so that people don't cheat the system by making a bunch of new accounts to fraudulently boost your follower count.
To get a first boost, check out the top twitters who follow back. Just google this. That's a start. Then, link your twitter account to your domain, blog, squidoo, etc. I use the twitter feed on most of my squidoo pages. Do a google search for twitters who are in your niche. Chances are, someone has a site with a twitter group. Join, plug your twitter account in. It can be slow going until you get 500-1000. That is, you need to work hard. Follow big name people, and chances are the last people who follow after you will also follow you. A small trick is to then unfollow that big name, since they probably will not follow back. Do a search for twitters in your niche. Not hard, just google or do the twitter search. Check 2 things. if they follow back, and if they have tweeted at least once in the past 2 or 3 days. Follow those that fit both of those. Now once you get past a certain point, I'd say around 1500 followers, you will get many who follow you on a daily basis. On one of my twitter accounts with over 4,000 followers, I get about 100 new followers a week without doing anything. One of mine just past 2,000 and now gets about 20 a day which is pretty good. Yes, I have 5 twitter accounts, each linked to everything I do in regard to that niche. Last tip, find the big retweeters who follow everyone and retweet. You will get some juice from that as well. Bottom line, be patient, work hard, then you can relax. A little, that is. People will follow you just because. Now I have yet to see any great monetary gain from tweeting. But I do think I get traffic from just having the twitter. Don't believe the hype about tweeting for riches. Stephen C
give some reasons why people should follow you, like offering $1 per follow, you can surely get people's attention, but $1 is too expensive, just be creative enough to make people notice you and follow you
I would suggest finding those on twitter that are talking about similar stuff as you. Use http://search.twitter.com to find them, follow those ppl and they'll most likely follow you back. Use twitter for conversations, not for blasting your sales feed and you'll do much better with it Feel free to follow me
you can follow the gurus and big guys there such us oprah and wait for her followers to follow you then unfollow her an do it again to stay on top of her followers list do it with 5 big guys and you will never need more followers