More Twitter Tips

Ok, so yesterday I posted a whole bunch of sites designed to make you get more followers. Today I woke up to an e-mail inbox with over 50 e-mails saying "so-and-so is following you on Twitter", and most of the so-and-sos were obviously bots. Not only that, but I had to go through one by one and follow each of them, because I agreed to do so when I joined those sites.

Obviously, having bots as followers doesn't do you much good... and having to add them yourself one by one is just tedious.

Enter TrueTwit. It's a website that makes everyone who follows you on Twitter have to verify the fact that they are human before they can follow you (via the familiar test of typing the words in the picture into the text box). Not only that, but when someone follows you you will automatically start following them.

Both problems solved^^

Also, one of the few humans who added me yesterday directed me to some useful software called TweetDeck. It has a lot of useful features. You can manage multiple twitter accounts, you can search keywords (I have a section open that shows me everytime someone posts something related to "Make money online"), you can organize your contacts into groups and have the updates of each of those groups up on the screen... The best part is, it's all in one window. You can split this window into sections however you like, to show whatever you want to see (I currently have my direct messages, my human friends and the search box I mentioned before). The only negative I have found so far is that it doesn't tell you when someone follows you, though you can follow, unfollow, favourite and do everything else to other people.