* I stopped using Twitollower some time back. It work well and I got loads of followers but I stopped so I could build a relationship with them. To be honest, whilst its great to have loads of followers, unless you can interact with them they are worthless. The old theory of following loads people in the hope they would follow you back doesn’t really cut it in 2011… what does? Get on my list, bottom right of this page, and I’ll keep you updated. My close internet buddies know the real deal, so can you… I’m not saying you shouldn’t try Twitollower but you may be better off focusing on other areas as well…

If you have not heard of Twittollower or you are interested if it lives up to the launch hype, you should enjoy this unbiased review.

Basically there are so many poor Twitter products on the market that you can understand that when I first heard of this product I had a fair level of skepticism. However Ben Shaffer was involved and having been involved with one of his previous projects I was keep to see what he was upto. This time he had teamed up with Tahir Shah, who I hadn’t any experience with but a few searches throwed up some positive feedback, so I thought I’d at least have a look at it.

Twittollower Review

Now, for those of you who don’t know me, I’ve several years of Internet Marketing under my belt and my sites can be found in numerous niches (and often under different aliases).

I use different ways to drive traffic to each site, sometimes they overlap, it really depends on the niche. I use Twitter in several niches I operate in to build relationships and inform people about what I’m up to (note: the build relationships, which is the key here).

As anyone how has manually tried to build there Twitter followers knows, its a slow process to do it “the Twitter way”… e.g. simply by tweeting and hoping people will find and follow you. For most of us, we want action a bit faster than that. So the next option is to go and find someone who is a similar niche to you and manually follow there followers, hopefully they’ll follow you back.

A fairly boring process but things start to get a bit tricky once you are following 2000 people, as then the Twitter ratios start to kick in. Basically you need approx 90% of the people you follow to be following you before you can add more, which is pretty unlikely, infact you’ll probably only have about 500. So you then need to go and un-follow the people who are not following you and then follow some others, and so on, and so on… Very boring as a manual process.

So this is where a tool would fit in; one which could do the following and un-following automatically leaving you to do the important stuff; e.g. building a relationship with your followers.

Now, I’ve used some semi-automated tools to do this in the past (in other niches) but I’ve found after a while that Twitter gets wise to them and blocks them, or worse, disables your Twitter account. So I backed away from them as well.

Then along comes Twittollow which makes some pretty ambitious claims about being totally hands free, a real “set and forget exercise”. As you know, marketers love that term and they know most people are busy so they’ll jump on anything that sounds easy or without any interaction.

After watching the video and some deliberation I decided I’d give it a go. The sign up process was easy, which includes registering a new Twitter account as they recommend you use a new one, and before long I was inside.

Twittollower Videos

Twittollower Videos Within The Members Area

There are four simple videos to watch which walk you through setting up you account for the first time. They are very quick and to the point, which is as expected as the setup process is so simple.

The main thing to consider is what niche you want your new Twitter account to be in as you must pick this during setup and you cannot change it once you have started. There is a pretty exhaustive list to choose from, you simply pick the one that matches the area you are interested in and away you go. This tells Twittollower which people to follow as each niche has a group of existing Twitter accounts attached to it.

That is the setup complete and off it goes. At first I was left thinking, ok, should I do something? So I made some tweets and customised my Twitter homepage a bit more then I went to bed. The next day I checked it, I was following about 300 people and nearly 100 were following me back. So far so good! So I made some more tweets to my new followers and went about doing my normal day to day stuff.

I didn’t check again for a couple more days, then I went back in and awesome… nearly 300 followers. Now I am nearly 2 weeks in and I’m pleased to say I have over 1300 followers and it continues to grow by the day, totally handsfree, absolutely no effort on my behalf which allows to focus on adding value to my tweets and getting to know my followers.

I keep harping on about that point but it so import. I hate people who follow a load of people and then continously send the same message over and over trying to sell some lame product… you will never sell anything like that so forget it. You need to make usefull post that people will want to read and then they may click your links. Overtime you will bond with them and that will open up a world of options. So please, if you do use Twittollower use it the right way, engage with your followers and they will want to know what you have to say, which in the long term will be much more valuable than putting a crappy product they don’t want.

So, in summary, so far I am really pleased with my Twittollower account and I hope it continues to work in such an excellent fashion. I’d love to hear your results with it so check it out here and then leave your comments or tweet me with your experiences.

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