A few tweet penguin tips

Dear Twit Blogger:

tweet penguin has been growing by leaps and bounds. We've gotten a lot of questions about how to view the number of "penguins" you have following you.

The best way is to simply go to tweetpenguin.com and re-enter your Twitter username, password, and interests. This will take you back to your page and show you stats. WHY is this the best way? Because this will retweet your Twitter account with your custom tweet penguin URL. (And that will help you get more followers.)

Below is my personal tweet penguin web page;

1. http://tweetpenguin.com/igooglefriend
2. http://tweetpenguin.com/amazonastore

Follow me via Twitter @igooglefriend and @amazonastore

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

P.S., We get lots of people asking us where and how we host our domains. If you want your own domain name -- to build your own little site -- we highly recommend the host that we've been using for years: InMotion Hosting

Get 19,530 new twitter followers in 30 days?

Hey check this out...

I just found this site that shows you away of getting 1000's of new followers on twitter, I just started using it myself and its starting to work already.

http://tweetergetter.com/igooglefriend

Thought it might interest you.
Follow my tweets @igooglefriend

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