I recently had a client looking to grow a Twitter account. To be honest I really didn’t want to get this request.
With that said, is it worth investing the time in automation? I’m great with Instagram + Mass Planner. Blowing up! Twitter - i’s like a dead zone to me.
I have no doubt I will be able to really get good on automation, but what are the returns like?
Is follow / unfollow dodgy?
Seem like a lot of people on here said there was a wave of bans???
With Twitter, don’t limit the activity to only follow/unfollow, you’ll easily get in trouble. Mix the actions, start with low settings and gradually grow. Let’s wait and see what the others will say.
A lot of our clients use MP for Twitter automation, they get password reset every now and then, but that’s mostly because too aggressive settings or because Twitter detected bot behavior.
So, you’ll have to use settings that will make your account look human
as @mommyfats said, don’t use only one or two tools (follow and unfollow), throw in some favorites, a retweet or two per day, some tweets and account should be fine.
Oh, yes, don’t forget to add night mode, couple of hours when none of the actions will be executed. Also, ask your client to avoid logging in to that account.
I would introduce follow and unfollow slowly, like very slowly. Only follow maybe 40 per day to start tops, favorites you can get away with 300- 400 a day until you hit 600-800 (in my testing). I would set unfollow to only happen a couple of days a week.
Definitely setup a good campaign of tweets so it looks active.
Personally, I set it up very human like. follows in the morning, favorites all day (8 hours tops) with a random 30-60 minute break across all actions, tweet a few times a day, and retweet a few times a day. Only 1 PV, on my test account it got PV’d several times for following/unfollowing the same day, and for more than 100.
I love Twitter! Seems most people think it’s dying, but I’ve had great luck driving traffic to blogs with it. In fact, the majority of my social traffic comes from Twitter.
I go balls to the wall. If the account lives, it lives. If it dies, I buy another one.
It’s all about scale. I’ve found you need at least 40 - 50 secondary accounts liking / RT your main accounts to get the best results. Once you start getting 40 - 50 likes / RT, you start to get noticed by real people.
I’ve got one account in the travel niche that is getting 200+ like / RT on everything I post.
Hey @worktime@mommyfats@trolling4dollars@Adnan I found an account that I want to purchase with amazing numbers. It is however following a lot of people. 44.8K to be exact (wow).
9500 Tweets
44.8k following
47.4 followers (i can see 2000 are fake through audit)
1951 likes
Before I purchase the account I’d love some advice on how to safely delete all the tweets, following, likes. Through my limited experience and research Twitter obviously will ban if I mass unfollow.
Any thoughts on how to safely do this? I will want to get rid of all the tweets, following and likes.
I’m def not saying Twitter is dead, but I’m solely on Instagram. I have one account I want to market and I’d love to have 50 accounts constantly liking / retweeting. The question is how do I get 50 accounts up and running? Buy them all? Brand them?
For Twitter, I’d just buy the accounts. Buy twice as many as you need, warm them up for a few weeks & get through all of the phone / email verifications.
Set them up to favorite / RT your content - but also set them up to post their own unique content, too. RSS feeds are a good option here.
I’ve been meaning to move my Twitter over to MP. I’m currently scheduling posts via Hootsuite, haven’t played with MP in Twitter just yet. Going to set it up this week and see how well it does. Try this out.
Let me know if you experience “blocked” by twitter and that they needed to call your phone to verify it.
Also, let me know if you have been blocked by simply retweeting and liking (not posting from the warm up time).
MP is soooooo much easier than Hootsuite. Don’t get me wrong, HS has it’s place & it’s a good tool. But scheduling content, MP is totally the way to go.
Twitter is currently my main social media traffic source and i’m getting really good results with it so i’d say it’s definitely worth it.
Just as others said just try to take it slow in the beginning to warm up your account and slowly increase your actions.
I mainly perform actions such as posting tweets regularly, follow/unfollow relevant users and sending DMs to new followers.
As others mentioned you may get locked out of your account once in a while but it’s easy to get back on and continue from where you left off.