The increasing popularity of Twitter as a relationship and marketing platform has spurred the growth of several systems and software that facilitate the recruitment of more followers and the management of one’s account.
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There are two system right now on the Web that use the name of Brute Force, one has been designed by Rich Bryda (Twitter name BigRichB), a 34year old Web publisher who sells weight-loss e-books and that has developed, with several attempts, a system that brought him to 70K followers in three months (http://budurl.com/brute) and that he sells in the form of a video course for the usual $ 97. He is also offering to manage other people Twitter accounts for $ 497 per month.
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Today he has 78K followers and he has been growing at a more usual and stable pace. I have never tried his system both because he doesn’t seem to have been able to repeat his exploit in the last couple of months and because it was apparently relying in some part on following people who were following spammers. I am more interested in having more targeted and dedicated followers.
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The second “Brute Force” product has been developed by Peter Drew, SEO expert (Twitter name www.twitter.com/peterdrew), and Dana Willhoit, Web PR and ghost writer. It is a combination of advices on how to develop a presence and a business online and a software that follows or un-follows people automatically. Drew claims to have been using the “brand” Brute Force for years. His package, which is $ 37 a month for a subscription fee, gives access to a forum with search optimization advices and the software itself that keeps a centralized database to that you can keep track of the people you have un-followed so not to follow them again.
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BruteForceTwitter, that’s the name of the software, opens up with a very simple interface allowing you to define one or more accounts you want to manage (http://budurl.com/drew).
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Once that is done you can select the name of one Twellow (a person on Twitter) and get the software to automatically follow the people that are following him in the expectation that they will follow back. The software selects a random number of people to follow, working in ranges between, for example, 100 – 500 or 200 – 1000 and so on. It will first look for them (making sure you haven’t already unfollowed them) and then will follow them one at a time, slowly, with randomly changing delays between one follow and the other so not to be “blocked” by Twitter.
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It is a slow progression and you can open several windows of the program so to follow people from several different other Twellows. I have used it for a while and it is a practical way to develop a presence on Twitter.
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Roberto Mazzoni
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