Buying Twitter Followers?

People misunderstand the purpose of buying followers, think somebody noted above its purpose is to give your twitter/facebook account a kick start, with few people following you who is really going to want to follow you?

There are as also mentioned very few social media providers that actually provide real followers and other social services. However there are some that exist, and I just happen to know of a few (due to years of experience)

Not going to advertise any site's that I have used but there is one company in particular I have used in my last 3 campaigns with great success, and actually although I didn't expect it, a fair porpotion of the followers i got were very responsive, of course you can't beat organic methods for sure. But grabbing some followers to get a kick start? Would recommend everytime, just don't look for the absolute cheapest option (i.e. fiverr) as the risk of getting your account banned nowdays is very likely. However that doesn't mean it has to cost you an arm and a leg.

Feel free to message me if you want any recommendations.

You nailed it.

Buyin fake is just a shortcut to getting where you need to go. Nobody that buys fake RELIES on it. They are doing it to get over the 2k hump and look legit

If you have really good content in your tweets and buy Twitter followers just to pad the numbers, then others seeing will have the 'wow' factor and might want to follow. However, most likely it's the good quality tweets that will attract the followers rather than the bloated follower numbers.

Well you can do the same thing for FREE.

You can follow up to 2,000 people. That is a limit but not a permanent one. I will explain.

So you click follow for 2,000 people.

Some of those people will follow you back.

Then what you can do is log into twitter click on followers

and for those people who are not following you click unfollow.

Then what you do is find more people to follow

and some of those new people will follow you and some won't

delete the people who aren't following you

Repeat this process until you have 2,000 followers.

Then Twitter will lift the limit that only allows you to follow 2,000 people.

Sure this will take a bit longer, it took me about 2-3 weeks. But it's free.

Yeah, because people that follow back are highly targeted leads... My post is based upon my opinion, my testing, I've purchased followers, and subsequently seen the results I received by it.

Caleb

This is exactly what I did for a band I'm working with. Within one year they went from 200 followers to over 80k followers. Granted there ARE still some bought follows in that number but this has allowed them to gain anywhere from 20 - 100 new followers a day. They simply find a band that fits into their genre, go to the band twitter account or to the twitter account of one of the members and start adding. They are getting engagement from followers, people are favorite-ing their tweets and retweeting. They've even gotten themselves onto internet radio shows, sold iTunes downloads and merchandise thanks to this twitter campaign.

So I say buy followers to start, eventually most of them will fall off but you'll be adding real people who will engage with you and your brand.

This is very true..Overtime you will notice your pagerank rise up NO.1 especially if you have a unique twitter username

I guess I will have to chime in and totally agree with Social Media Owls

You can buy twitter followers for the sole reason of looking established ,automatically you are more likely to get targeted followers after the purchase eg.if you run a twitter ad on their platform after purchasing abt 2000 followers..you will most likely have a more successful campaign than a different person doing a twitter ad with only 9 followers.:p

Some people will definately disagree but people are doing it and getting some good success from buying twitter followers in the start

Cheers to the discussion

Worthless?? I disagree!

My main Twitter account has over 50K followers. Google gives it a PageRank of 6. Any link that goes in that tweet stream is linking back from a PR of 6. I'm sure number of followers has a bearing on the pagerank. New accounts with a few followers certainly don't get that PR.

Every tweet that goes on there is given its own little website meaning a link that goes to my account is going on 50K websites connected to Twitter's PR of 9+.

I've done searches and had individual tweets related to the search show up.

I've found my content scattered through page after page of search results with links back from other sites that I had no knowledge of. Here's how they got it: They watched my tweets and scraped it. Twitter is possibly better than article submission.

6-8 months ago I bought 12,000 followers for an account I was building. Those followers are still on that account. Prior to buying those I turned off the autofollow feature in SocialOomph. After they were added I turned it back on. So much for Twitter deleting fake accounts. The follower count looks good: 11,000 followers; following 2000.

Problem: I can't get my site to rank for the phrase "credit report". Oh, I see the problem; my site doesn't have the phrase credit report even once on it. Contact my webmaster: 'Add the phrase "credit report" to my site.' Done! Do the search again; still not ranked/indexed. Tweet the site containing the phrase "credit report" to my 100K followers. Moments after tweeting a link to the site do the search again...there it is!! Now it's on the first page for the phrase "credit report".

I'm reading this thread looking for the latest info I'm headed off tomorrow to buy some more followers off Fiverr.

I just learned my biggest account is now a PR 3. I think a 50K follower account is now peanuts when compared with accounts w/ 150K+ hence the lower PR. I haven't been working it like I was.

Naw, they all claim that. They have account creator software on proxies creating thousands of accounts, putting in pictures and descriptions.

Yeah I have 50k followers... but I don't know how to use them lol

There are real benefits to buying Twitter followers.
Firstly, as long as these followers look real, other people will think your account is popular enough to follow and will do so. If there are not many followers they will hesitate even if they see some good content, because of how people psychology works - they don't want to be the first, or the initiator, but they want to be a follower.
Secondly, Twitter places a limit on your following people. You can't follow not much more than the number of followers you have (this goes into effect once you follow more than 2000 people). So having for e.g. 3000 followers gives you that 'buffer' so that you can follow freely without hitting this restriction (there is still a daily technical limit of 1000 though, that you can follow on any given day).
Buying Twitter followers shouldn't be the be-all, end-all, single strategy, but an essential part of your set of strategies in growing your Twitter account. It is especially suitable for kick-starting your newly-created Twitter account.
With all these benefits I've described, you wouldn't exactly call $5 for 3000 followers a 'waste of money.'

Stop bumping all the Twitter threads to covertly self promote or your posts will be reported