How to Auto-Follow on Twitter

March 20, 2011 by kristinewirth · Leave a Comment
Filed under: twitter

First off, let me start this off by saying that I personally do not use a service that auto-follows (or even un-follows) people automatically. I actually do everything by hand; at least while I still can. I use a service that alerts me via email whenever I have new followers and these emails come through at certain times of the day. I don’t always get to the emails right away even though it’s a part of my morning routine, but this can actually be a bit helpful too.

Let me explain why…

The service that I use (which is 100% free) is Nutshell Mail which is a service of Constant Contact. You don’t have to use Constant Contact to use Nutshell Mail – everyone can use it. I set up my accounts, and get emails throughout the day whenever I have new Twitter followers – it will also notify me of those who have un-followed me as well.

Now why my procrastination in following up with Twitter follows is a good thing is for this reason: I’ve often found in going through Nutshell Mail that if I don’t get to my followers in time to follow them (if I decide to), then within a couple of days those same people will have un-followed me. Maybe it was something I said or maybe, and it’s my strong belief that this is true, they weren’t truly interested in what I had to say but rather were just “auto-following” and then “auto-un-following” people to increase their numbers.

Anyhow, I suggest Nutshell Mail for those of you who want to do it by hand. If not, however, here are some other services to take a look at:

The first is SocialOomph (it used to be called TweetLater). They offer both free and paid accounts so you can give them a try to see if you like using them or not. That said, the automation part of their service does cost a fee but at the time of this writing it’s $3.97/month. Literally the cost of a cup of coffee depending upon where you get your coffee from.

SocialToo is another application that auto-follows people for you.

Another one is Twollow which offers paid services.

I know there are others, countless others, that I haven’t listed here a simple search in Google for “auto-follow Twitter” will pull them up for you.

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