Actually, I have an app doing all that things from the OP. It doesn't follow and unfollow more than 180 users a day. Tested on several accounts and none were suspended. If someone interested in building twitter users with targeted followers, PM me.
Very good info, this is exactly how i started, didn't buy any followers though. Now i'm earning a decent $75 minimum daily with only 3 accounts.
Some good info here regarding the follow/unfollow terms for twitter. However, I think you missed some important points AND are blatantly wrong on one thing you said. I have been working with twitter since they first existed and have built lots of software to automate it. 1. You didn't say anything about the content you are posting. Twitter will ban a new account if you don't have any tweets and just start following and unfollowing people. Not to mention, real people aren't likely to follow you back if you have no content. This content should also be HIGH QUALITY that your target market will want to read. I usually post 5-15 tweets per day of unique content to new verified accounts for at least a week before I start this process of following and unfollowing. 2. You mentioned people can buy followers. I HIGHLY advise against this. You mentioned they are bots, so they're not going to do you any good anyway. BUT almost all of the people offering this service on fiverr and related sites will unfollow you a couple days after you make payment. Remember, the people running the bot-controlled accounts also have to live with the follow limits set by twitter, so they won't follow you very long when someone else is willing to pay for those follows. When twitter sees you get 5k followers one day and then they ALL unfollow the next, they will know you set up an account just for spam. I hope this post helps anyone new to twitter marketing.
Thank you for sharing EddieC...i would be interested in the new guide I got my 5 accounts suspended and 2 that are still going. If i could have 10 accounts going that would be great.
I am very interested. Please post this update. I knew there had to be a rhyme and reason to who gets suspended so I greatly appreciate you sorting it out! One question. This was mentioned above but I don't think we have your take on it yet. If an account gets suspended and reinstated once or twice, how does that affect the algo? It does seem like twitter is more sensitive after the first suspension.
Auto following is now against twitter terms and conditions. So all these mass following tools now gone, if you still use it you will loose your account.
That would explain why i get suspended after only following 100 accounts daily. So, what now do i just follow people manually, or?
Good report, I was trying to be clever and link up content to what people were saying - but apparently that's a quick way to get people creeped out and flag your account. Lesson learnt!
This is true of the Fiverr gigs you can buy, but there are decent suppliers that will give you followers that stick. The guys that do their job properly will setup a new batch of bot accounts rather than unfollowing the people they have already followed. Should have known you would be back in this thread trying to 'prove' yourself right again. The tools that have gone are the ones that use the API to follow, any tools that mimic browser behaviour - of which there are many - are still working just fine. Twitter have got a lot stricter with new accounts following the recent updates, but established accounts are still able to grow just fine with automated following.
I just raised valid point about recent changes in Twitter terms and conditions. Not trying to prove myself. I personally don't need what you trying to sell here, I found my niche and happy with what I'm doing. I don't need grey market to deal with.
There's only one of us trying to sell anything here, do you see any advert in my sig? I have no vested interest, I'm just trying to help people. The same can't be said for you though.
Re step 5 - the best way, and guaranteed lowest risk of unfollowback, is to unfollow (in addition to non followers) accounts that have not been active for 6+ months - this can be found out with rhythm and ease by using the inactive follower tab on justunfollow.com - there are always likely to be some at any given time. You have no better move, since accounts that have tweeted in the last 6 months are likely to return at some time soon and unfollow you back, which then is self defeating. I was a little unfortunately recently to have 285 of my followers suffer suspension (temporary or permanent, I have no idea) in a 2 day period, and I was able to confirm that it was (at least nearly entirely) suspended followers and not large banks of people blocking me by checking the suspended follower count with unfollowers.me - the only service I know of that provides reliable info on this. My status people faker scores were not high, only about 3%, in other words, in my case, about 140-150 followers - it has since come right back down to 0% - so it looks as though about half of those suspended followers were fake accounts that had decided to follow me at some time and had started to spam people randomly with DM with viral links, or (much more likely) were unfollowing (churning), almost certainly with dodgy automation, large numbers of active followers. If the faker score returned had been higher than 20%, that normally results in suspension, except for verified accounts. I am sure I had tweeted a few times about the dangers of suspension, but if there were bots following me, they would have taken not a grain of notice. I cannot say I am 100% free of people blocking me, but I believe the amount to be lower than 30 all told, nowhere near the 100 blocks in a day that is thought to be needed to suffer suspension. I was victim of the largest mass suspension ever in 2009 when about 3.5 million twitter accounts were suspended in a single day - what had happened, so I am told, is that a very nasty cyberattack on twitter had caused passwords by the million to be given to cyberterrorists, the accounts were then accessed and caused to send out massive amounts of spammy tweets with links to third party sites. It took me ages to get rid of the spam in my tweets that had resulted from the problem. I have heard that most of the suspended tweeters never returned to twitter. Very annoying when things like that happen!
With regard to the step re buying followers, that will cause your faker score to be high, therefore it is a very bad move. Twitter will pick it up and surely will suspend you, probably permanently. Also, it is highly unethical, and will hurt your klout score real bad! Klout knows when you have bought followers, and will penalize you. A person with 30,000 followers, and a klout score below 40, is almost always someone who has bought followers - either that, or they have very poor levels of engagement with such followers. My klout is above 40 and I have less than 5,000 followers. Follower numbers in the 100 - 1000 range should produce klout scores between 26 and 38 and follower numbers in the 1000 - 10000 range should produce klout scores between 36 and 48. Follower numbers in the 10000 - 100000 range should produce klout scores between about 45 and 60. These may only be an approximation, but are useful as a sensibility check.
I can't figure out sometimes if you're deliberately obtuse or just a little slow. Nothing in my signature does mean a lot, yes. It means that unlike you I am not on this forum to sell something, meaning I have no vested interest in pushing people towards my services. I've explained this one already so I'm really not expecting to have much luck in trying to get you to understand this simple concept, but please try & get your head round what I am saying. I have offered a free method that has worked very well for me and is helping me bank a full time income, without asking for anything in return. Most people have been grateful for this & I have gone on to provide a number of members with additional assistance via PM, however I guess there will always be naysayers. The method I have described works, I am still using it since the recent changes on Twitter and it is still working fine. Over the past year it has enabled me to grow a Twitter network of over 1m niche-targeted followers, that make me a nice living. If you have nothing to add to the conversation other than derision, just do everyone a favour & leave it. You've made your position clear and are adding nothing new, leave everyone that does want to use this method to it & you stick to selling the services in your sig.
If you look on my answer, all I mentioned was recent Twitter changes. But your responses are strictly against mine, which 100% disconnected from what I mentioned. You focused too much trying to show how big you are, but all that is just words. If you think I'm here to get some business, well you wrong, as this is not the place, and you can see in my stats how much I post here on DP - may be a few times a month. Is that looks to you that I'm selling here if I just post few times? There is big difference between your thoughts and reality. BTW, you have other responses as well which you left as is - unanswered, so don't be so much obsessed with my responses.