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Is Social Media Hummingbird Mass follow / unfollow software worth your investment?

July 9, 2009 by Leave a Comment
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When I posted the last article about Twitter’s policy of suspending people who do mass follow and un-follow, I received an overwhelming response from readers. The largest response regarded the use of automated applications, especially Hummingbird.  Comments regarding Hummingbird were mostly attacks on the software for being a commercial product which sells for $200 compared to other products that are free. Unfortunately, we did not find any other real technical reasons that would support these attacks.
Is it fair for people to trash a business just because it is not giving something away for free? Should I start giving away my custom web design and my custom SEO for free?

Does Hummingbird work? [Read more…]

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Should you spend any money on Twitter automation software?

July 4, 2009 by 2 Comments
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One of the most controversial practices widely used to build up influence on Twitter is now cause for account suspension. Using third party software to systematically add a large number of social connections each day, then break those connections with anyone who doesn’t reciprocate, will put you at risk of suspension, according to Twitter’s Doug Williams. [Read more…]

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Twitter influential members – Are your followers real people or a hoax?

July 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment
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One of the practices widely used to build up influence on Twitter is using third party software to systematically add a large number of social connections each day, then breaking those connections with anyone who doesn’t reciprocate. Such a practice allows people to grow their list of followers fast and automatically without any close monitoring.

Some social media companies sell the dream of building an influential account for someone in few weeks without contributing any real content by using the above techniques for monitory compensation.

The question that comes to my mind is, when you are building these lists automatically and when you can build them that fast, are you monitoring whether you are adding real people or just hoaxes? [Read more…]

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Grow Your Twitter Account Using These Tools (In Depth Analysis)

May 13, 2009 by 3 Comments

This blog is to help the novice choose tools to help them with their Twitter experience. I have personally used all of five of these tools and had good experience with them, which is why I am bringing them to your attention.

Flash Tweet

All you need to do is enter your Twitter account and password and this tool pulls all of your followers.  To mass follow someone, you enter their Twitter account and Flash Tweet will pull all their followers in groups of 100 per page. You can select 100 at a time and follow. [Read more…]

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