Tweeting famous people for more followers?

Dear Twitterers,

tweet penguin had a really silly idea. Not only that, the idea totally failed! But the process I used to investigate whether it worked will help you find your own successful ways to generate more Twitter followers.

Before I continue, isn't it time you revisited tweet penguin and checked your stats? Just go to our home page (tweet penguin) and re-enter your Twitter username, password, and interests. This will take you to your custom page to see how many new "penguins" you have (and it will retweet the fact that you're a member!)

Okay, on to the idea...

As you probably know, some of the top Twitterers are celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and 50 Cent. These people have huge audiences. I thought, well, if I can get old Ashton to do an @reply to my Twitter account, I should get lots more followers, right? After all, his army of followers will see that he responded to me, check out my Twitter page, and follow me!

Well, I tweeted and tweeted. Ashton didn't reply.

And here's where my silly little idea might be of interest to you. It didn't matter if he didn't reply. I could easily use an existing free Twitter app called twitter counter out there to see if his previous @replies resulted in more followers for those folks he deigned with a response.

So I scrupulously went through Ashton's tweet history and looked at all of his replies. I then went to this free app and carefully looked at the growth of followers for the person Ashton tweeted immediately after!

The result? Well, getting a celebrity to notice you might be kinda cool, but it won't result in more followers. There were no spikes in followers after a celeb tweet.

But this is a great tool to investigate new follower strategies. Find someone who has lots of followers. Look at the growth in their follower history using this app. And then dig through their old tweets to find out what exactly happened on the days where they got lots of new followers.

Neat idea, eh?

(Here you can see tweet penguin's follower growth over the past few days using twitter counter.)

Best regards,
Mohd Rafi Kassim @igooglefriend

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