[twitter-dev] Re: Pyramid scheme to gain followers

2009-11-10 Thread Wouter van Vliet
The scheme behind it is obviously that with more followers your tweets will get more and more noticed. As Twitter is used a lot for marketing, followers appear to be "key". But I believe more in quality than quantity. I was just looking at my web analytics, and noticed that one particular post in

[twitter-dev] Re: Pyramid scheme to gain followers

2009-11-07 Thread Josh Roesslein
Yeah. :\ I've seen this done on other "follower increase" sites. No clue how well it works or the quality of followers you gain. I'll pass on it. On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Tim Haines wrote: > Wow - http://www.tweetpopular.com > Sadly I bet a bunch of users go for this too.

[twitter-dev] Re: Pyramid scheme to gain followers

2009-11-07 Thread John Meyer
Okay, what's the point of this, anyway? Am I missing something on the reason why you would want to artificially inflate the number of followers you have? Is there some sort of spam or ad pay going on here? From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@google