In Shoemoney’s “Answers To Questions Round 6″ one of those questions was about Twitter, well about how to earn money using Twitter but forget this topic, it’s not the target of this post. In the answer Shoemoney said Twitter had become the 4st largest source of referral traffic, yes, he said the 4st!! This is really big because he has thousands of visitors each day.

How does he get this traffic? Let’s leave apart the fact he is a blogger star. If you have a look at his tweets you will see he posts tweets quite often, almost every hour. Some of them are related with new blog posts, some of them tells about what he is doing AND some of them are totally empty and useless tweets. It doesn’t matter what you say, the objective is tweet and tweet often. He has almost 3000 followers and a big amount of them surely follow him because he is Shoemoney, but I’m sure there is a percent of his followers that play the tricky tactic of follow massively to get some follow back response. Of course they crash into a hard rock because nowadays Shoe is following only 50 tweeters.

So what we get in conclussion? I think we can extract that Twitter is a really good tool for traffic building. And how can we make it work like him? First of all we need followers, lots of followers. We can try the tricky and spammy way of massive following but I’m going to play a sharper and better looking tactic: masive twitter posting. The reason is that twitter spammers use to sit in front of Twitter Public Time Line and follow every user that had recently post in hope of getting some back response. So I’ll try it to get some spam followers. Like “money attracts money” I think “followers attract followers”. If you have lots of followers people may think you are important and then start to follow you.

Why don’t you start to follow me?

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From the man who wrote Look For Tweeters Of Your City, TwitterLocal now there is coming Are You In Twitter’s Blacklist?

Well after this presentation let’s get to the point. We have another service that is born around Twitter without being part of that social network, The Twitter’s Blacklist. It is a publicly available list of spammers and works around the concept “Follow Factor.” The idea is based in the ratio of persons you are following and those who are your followers. A high ratio indicates that you are adding users indiscriminately in order to get some followers.

Twitter staff is aware of this tactic and it is penalized to make such practices, so it is no longer possible to this user to get more followers. It is somekind of spam. I think it’s right to stop this behavoiur. I believe that many of these users do it for profit and probably they want to sell their account as it happened in the past.

And you, my dear reader? Are you in the BlackList?

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It is incredible the way there are proliferating around Twitter utilities of all kinds. Now it is the turn to TwitterLocal. This service lets you find tweeters (Twitter users) within a radius of your choice and for the city you choose.

The idea is good because you can find people like you near you are living whom you could contact physically. There are many bloggers, I’m included, that are seen like extrange freaks among our gang of friends because we are the only ones who live in this incredible world called Blogosphere.

Let’s test it:

• Location: Oviedo, my city.
• Radius: 1 mile.

Result:

Here are the last tweets that have come from Oviedo and in the second place there is one tweet of mine in wich I’m telling that I’m better than Tom Cruise. Do you want to know why I’m better than he? I’ll tell you next day

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