It took me a while to "get" Twitter. I signed up for an account, but found it to be pretty pointless. I tweeted occasionally, but not very often. I even closed my account at one point, but decided to reopen it ... just in case ...
And I'm glad I did. Because this week I had an "epiphany". I suddenly "got" Twitter and all the other Social Networking sites. At least from the point of view of an online marketer I did.
On Twitter, I follow a very popular person, who at the last count had an amazing 179,000 followers! He put a new product up for sale and Tweeted about it. Within minutes the website that handles the sales of that product had exceeded its user limit and to anyone else who wasn't quick enough to get in, the site had effectively crashed.
As an online marketer, I would love the chance to tell 179,000 people about a new product. Imagine it - if I was selling a product for $47, and just 2% of the 179,000 people who read my tweet actually bought it, I'd make a cool $168,260.
So having realised what it's all about, I wondered how to get a large number of followers on Twitter.
Well it just so happens that there is an excellent way of building your follower list. It works on the same principles as viral marketing, is absolutely free to join, and takes about 30 seconds to do.
If you're not on Twitter yet, head over to Twitter and sign up. Again, it's totally free.
Once you've signed up, get on over to TweeterGetter and follow the incredibly simple instructions.
I had doubled my number of followers within 24 hours and it's still increasing.
Give it a try. You have nothing to lose.
Stop Press: In just 2 days, the number of Twitter followers I have has increased 10-fold.
