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I’ve been following for a little while now the number of tweets that are appearing on Twitter from some users offering big numbers of followers that can be achieved by signing up to  third party applications and auto follow applications.

Some are free and some charge you for the privilege of using their applications to build followers, but I can’t help but feel that this is not what Twitter is all about, it’s just an ego trip of getting big numbers of followers that in reality have no interest in what you do or say.

I first wrote about this back in March, and since then I’ve seen my following grow slowly, I’ve not tried to push the growth just so I could claim a huge following. To me organic growth that happens because people like the information I provide or they find it useful is far more important to me than having a huge following that never interacts with me. Now I know there are some using Twitter, that by the nature of what they do will always attract a big following, celebrities such as Ashton Kutchner for example, but for me I’ll continue to try and build a following based on good quality links,information and updates, and I’ll be pleased that the followers I have are there because they want good information which is helpful to them in running their business, not because some auto follow system drives them to me.

To those of you who are new to Twitter, build your following on providing good quality links and information, communicate with your target market and to do this, the best advice I can give you is to:

1. Follow
2. Create
3. Engage 

To me this what social media is about, not what Twitter is becoming.

I’d be interested in your comments on this subject.