Increase Your Twitter Following: The @KevinRose Experiment
Compared to Twitter royalty like @KevinRose , @LeoLaporte, @GuyKawasaki and @JasonCalacanis, who each have over 50,000 followers, my hard earned 415 followers @LarryGenkin is paltry and peasantly.
But maybe there's still hope. Kevin Rose had a great guest post on TechCrunch yesterday, offering "10 Ways to Increase Your Twitter Followers." I'm going to take suggestion #7 and do a live experiment here to see if it can maybe work for me. Here's what Kevin wrote...
(In Monty Hall's voice) So here's what I'm gonna do....
For every 1,000 followers I receive by February 28th I will give away 1 page of advertising in Blogger & Podcaster Magazine to a random @LarryGenkin Twitter follower.
What that means to you, the Twittering public (according to stats by Twitterholic) ... If I miraculously make it up to @SteveJobs (get well Steve!) territory with 17,000 followers, that'll be 17 ad pages given away. If I get alongside one of my favorite Twitterers @LevarBurton with 21,000 followers that'll be 21 ad pages. Get me to stand shoulder to shoulder with blog pioneer Darren Rowse @ProBlogger it'll be 31 ad pages ... Help me hold my head high at IBMNA advisory board meetings with co-member @ChrisBrogan 36 ad pages ... Put me in the league of the Digg Maestro @Kevin Rose 88 ad pages.... and ....the Holy Grail... our New President and most powerful Twitterer in the free world @BarackObama —- 144 ad pages.
If I get over 1,000 followers I will figure out a fair way to give out the ad page(s). It will be to a random follower(s) of @larrygenkin, but the method we’ll have to figure out. If you’ve got any suggestions, comment on this post and let me know your ideas. And no, the ads can't all go in the same issue, we'll have to spread them out so the readers don't have to hunt for editorial like in Cosmo (not that I read Cosmo or would know.)
Let the @KevinRose experiment begin...
7. Start a contest. @jasoncalacanis offered a free macbook air if he reached the #1 most followed spot. That never happened, but Jason added thousands of followers…brilliant.Well, I don't have an extra Macbook Air lying around like Jason, but as founder and publisher of Blogger & Podcaster Magazine, I do have ad space. And since Twitterers love promotion, because the understand promotion begets more followers, maybe ad space in Blogger & Podcaster will be enough of a "carrot" to get them to help test Kevin's hypothesis and get me some Twitter R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
(In Monty Hall's voice) So here's what I'm gonna do....
For every 1,000 followers I receive by February 28th I will give away 1 page of advertising in Blogger & Podcaster Magazine to a random @LarryGenkin Twitter follower.
What that means to you, the Twittering public (according to stats by Twitterholic) ... If I miraculously make it up to @SteveJobs (get well Steve!) territory with 17,000 followers, that'll be 17 ad pages given away. If I get alongside one of my favorite Twitterers @LevarBurton with 21,000 followers that'll be 21 ad pages. Get me to stand shoulder to shoulder with blog pioneer Darren Rowse @ProBlogger it'll be 31 ad pages ... Help me hold my head high at IBMNA advisory board meetings with co-member @ChrisBrogan 36 ad pages ... Put me in the league of the Digg Maestro @Kevin Rose 88 ad pages.... and ....the Holy Grail... our New President and most powerful Twitterer in the free world @BarackObama —- 144 ad pages.
If I get over 1,000 followers I will figure out a fair way to give out the ad page(s). It will be to a random follower(s) of @larrygenkin, but the method we’ll have to figure out. If you’ve got any suggestions, comment on this post and let me know your ideas. And no, the ads can't all go in the same issue, we'll have to spread them out so the readers don't have to hunt for editorial like in Cosmo (not that I read Cosmo or would know.)
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Hey. Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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I admit, I have not been on this webpage in a long time. However it was another joy to see It is such an important topic and ignored by so many professionals. I thank you to help making people more aware of possible issues.
Great stuff as usual.
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Kevin’s passion sometimes took precedence over schoolwork, prompting his mother to confiscate his keyboard when bad report cards arrived. “I drilled a hole in my desk and put a chain through it so she couldn’t take it again,” Kevin says
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am never more painfully reminded of the limits of symmetric “friend”-based social networks than I am when I post a book review on Goodreads. I love books, and I love spreading the word about ones I enjoy (as well as ones I expected to enjoy, but didn’t quite). Most of the time, my reviews go out quietly to a small group of friends, whose book recommendations I also follow. It’s a lovely social network.
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