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How To Increase Your Twitter Followers

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I thought the internet was done with popularity contests?

We appear to be stuck in the high school years of the Internet. One wonders if the phase will ever pass.

The more popular, the more earning potential: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=adcause+twitter

On the contrary, we have them all the time. Sometimes companies are even valuaed based on how many followers they have.

The only thing which redeemed this article for me was (somewhat ironically) the comment by Robert Scoble.

His comment was awesome. I like Robert Scoble a bazillion times more than Kevin Rose. I know Robert's geeky and nerdy and a little bit kind of strange, but he's awesome. A lot more awesome than Kevin Rose. Did you know Kevin Rose paid someone on Elance $200 to build Digg? No joke!~

Why is paying somone $200 on Elance to build Digg connoted negatively? Is it bad to be economically apt?

The Emperor Has No Clothes

Janis Krums. 4,002 Followers. Had about 1,600 the night of the Flight 1549 landing. Right person at the right place at the right time. His post-Flight 1549 TwitPic tweets seem to be veering towards Guy Kawasaki type 'read this article. it'll do you good, followers' tweets.

Unfortunately, the number of Twitter followers is not symptomatic of anything monetary.

http://twitter.com/jkrums

Some of these points are fairly obvious ways to advertise anything, others - like linking to Twitter from everywhere help Twitter become more popular, not necessarily you.

Lots of web start-ups (inc my own) use Twitter to spread the word - so you want a lot of followers, but how does linking Linked In, Facebook etc to Twitter help?

As I wrote on Twitter: People should stop obsessing about how to become famous on Twitter, and start focusing on being worth following instead.

How to be a d-bag.

Seriously, who gives a fuck?

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