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While I usually do posts about companies that offer great link building and SEM opportunities I felt the need to warn you about a service that doesn’t live up to its promise.
Twollow.com is a twitter utility that claims it will get you tons of followers. It works in a somewhat spammy way, but heck isn’t that what most of Twiiter is anyways?
Basically you go in and select up to 5 keywords the Twollow system is then supposed to crawl Twitter and auto follow anyone that uses those keywords in their Tweets. In a perfect world when that user sees that you have followed them they return the favor and magically you end of with tons of followers.
Here’s where things go horribly wrong. Their system never allowed me to view my keywords and after 5 support tickets I finally had a response. They told me this had never happened before and they would manually put the keywords in. Part of the process also allows you to Auto-unfollow users after 3 days. This never worked and in the end I was never able to manage my account, I had an additional 1,200 users that I was following and only gained 50 new followers. All of this time and effort and almost 10 support tickets in total cost me $5.99 USD a month which had the added benefit of being an auto renewal.
The worst part was when I tried to cancel my account, they never replied to my request and I was forced to call Paypal to stop the auto monthly withdrawal.
I would strongly recommend you build your Twitter follower base using other more organic methods and I would high recommend that you avoid using Twollow. Simply put they don’t deserve your business!
Incredibly annoying, there are so many of these silly twitter applications which promise the world and return nothing!
I hope they gave you a refund!
If you want an auto following system that requires a little more work, but with better results, try the Greasemonkey Twitter Friend Adder script at Income Diary. Basically, you find a Twitter user in your nice, and the script will add their followers, up to 1,000 at a time in 2 second intervals. You can always just shut the browser window if you want to add less at a time.
Instead of just following anyone who mentions a keyword, which they may not be that interested in (like someone RT’s a message for a friend that includes SEO, but they themselves do not really care about SEO at all), you follow people that you know are already interested in a topic because of who they are already following.
So, for example, a wedding photographer in Phoenix could go to the Phoenix Bridal Show’s Twitter profile, and follow all of their followers. That is a highly targeted group of followers who are interested in weddings in the Phoenix area, which is exactly what the wedding photographer is looking for.
And of course, to keep your follower / following ratio in check, use the Twitter Karma site to identify people who are not following you and then bulk unfollow them after a week or so.
They’ll regret their bad service, now that you’re publicly showing their incompetence…
Thanks for your publishing this, so we will no more get this bad service.
hmmm my friend using twollow and get banned by twitter..
its not good to use
Hey I tried twollo as well when it was free and i have followed about 500 people and maybe got 40 to follow back. I don’t care because I never use my twitter account so it doesnt matter to me. I would agree with you though, get twitter followers through natural methods. If you try to get twitter followers through spammy methods, then you will get spammy people following you.
Hi Collin,
Other than this one, there’s actually another application called twittgeek which is basically free although there is a 100 followers limit per day.