David in Spain

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Really pleased to have found a tool that works so well. In the podcast I discuss two tools I have tried and you will understand why I prefer Tweetadder over Twitter Guru Elite. Both have pluses but Tweetadder has more features to its advantage.

The main thing though is that it really is important to have bigger Twitter numbers if you have something you need to get out there. I have a burning ambition to get my podcasts noticed and I think this is the way to go. You can’t rely on a small group of followers to re tweet for you generally be people are busy doing other stuff. You have to take matters into your own hands and find the followers yourself.

Have a listen and leave me a comment below the post if you have an opinion or would like to know more. Basically if you want or need more followers then it can be done with this software solution, a lot quicker.

I was trying out as you can see in the last couple of posts, Twitter Guru Elite. But then I also started to use Tweetadder. The reason for looking at this other one is because of it being a stand alone application that has a Mac version as well as a Windows version. On top of that it has a one off payment instead of the per month cost of Twitter Guru Elite.

The plus side of Twitter Guru Elite is that it filters out some of the crud. If if has in its database twitter accounts that are plainly spamming robots then it will discount them. I don’t think Tweetadder does that, it is less discriminating. I did pay for 30 days with Twitter Guru Elite and after a few days I decided to stop the recurring payment in PayPal. This was a bad move because then Twitter Guru Elite stopped working and I had only been using it for about 4 or 5 days.

I am leaning towards the Tweetadder application because it has some good search features. I can search for the followed accounts of a twitter user as well as the accounts being followed. I can put in search terms using the operators such as OR which I can’t do in Twitter Guru Elite.

I still like Twitter Guru Elite for some of what it does and I think it is horses for courses. Some people will prefer to pay monthly and some will prefer to pay the one off cost of buying the software. Tweetadder cost me $79  to work with 5 accounts and you would need to pay for the middle version of Twitter Guru Elite to get similar functionality. I did run into the limits that were in the $19 a month version of Twitter Guru Elite. It allows you to add 100k records and if you do searches on accounts belonging to people with large numbers of followers it is easy to hit the limit.

So my recommendation would be to use Twitter Guru Elite if you want to work with up to 2 newish accounts you own. If you want to go for a more long term solution then Tweetadder is the one to get.

Funny thing Twitter, I was in there early before it got crazy popular but didn’t do enough with it when it started to run away with itself. I was working with the Wizardgold name which came across from what I was doing with the betting strategy podcasts and only recently have I got other Twitter accounts that are suitable to what I do now with the 20 Questions web sites. I have the Mac20Q, Video20Q, Spondicious, Photo20Q. I got these mostly to stop other people taking the name and pretending to be me. But now I think it is a great idea to have multiply personas online and to separate the identities on the social networks.

Today I decided to give a system a try called Twitter Guru Elite. It did cost 19 dollars but I thought what the hell. It was promising big increases in my twitter numbers daily, in the 300 range and that the people following would be as far as is humanly possible be worth having. They claim to stop the bots and let the real people through. I was a bit sceptical and when I started I thought the information on how to get started was a bit skimpy. I struggled to find out how to do some of the basics but persevered.

Basically the way it works is by looking at people that are interested in the topics that you are interested in and see who their followers are. You put them in the system as a ‘Feeder’ and go through the list of followers and add them to a queue to follow by your account. Obviously it has to be a bit clever because Twitter has follower limits so the system has to monitor how many followers you have and how many following. When you get more following then the queue is used to follow some more. It keeps the balance right for your Twitter account.

Despite my initial worries that I had wasted 19 dollars I have been quite happy with the way it has gone. It was a little weird when on account which had 8 followers dropped down to 4. But then the thing started to work and the numbers went in the right direction. The next picture is after about 5 hours and look quite healthy in terms of growth.

I will have another look at this in the morning to see how the numbers are looking again. As you can see I was able to work with 2 Twitter accounts with this tool to increase my followers. The best thing of all is that the followers are likely to be interested in what I am offering and that means I will be able to get the Podcast in front of more people. That is what I am doing this for, promotion of the 20 Questions Brand.

This snapshot is from 10am the next morning, so about 11 hours later than the last picture. Quite impressive really. I will post up a new picture in 24 hours.