I’ve had good results from this.

I’m not one to use all the gadgets and scripts to get lots of followers, but Tim’s script helped get the ball rolling when I started to get serious about Twitter.

Most of my family and friends have no interest in Twitter and I think that’s understandable. Unless you’re promoting something on the Internet, it’s doubtful that there would be much value in tweeting. You’d probably do better posting updates on Facebook.

However, for anyone who promotes or markets something, I believe Twitter to be one of the essential tools.

As far as the size of my Twitter network is concerned, I’d rather have 100 people who know me and are responsive to what I tweet than to have thousands who ignore me or never see my tweets in the first place.

That’s why I think it’s important to “keep it real” when building our network.

I hope that link helps you.

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JD

I’m gonna try this out to see how it works

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I don’t know anything about a deal between Twitter and Bloomberg. Can you give us some more information about it? What do you think of it?

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When I have time to follow a dog on Twitter, it’s time to cancel my Internet connection.

You bring up a good point about those graphics. I neglected to say how to get them. Let’s rectify that right now.

Get the TwitterCounter button

To get the TwitterCounter graphic, go to TwitterCounter.com. Actually, that links to the page that shows my followers according to TwitterCounter.

Below the bar graph that shows the count of my followers for the last week, enter your Twitter username and click Show.

When it loads your data, look towards the bottom-right corner of the page and click “Add TwitterCounter to your site.”

That will give you several choices for adding the button wherever you want.

Get the Squidoo fans button

This one is a little harder to find.

First, go to SquidUtils.com and sign in using your Squidoo username. After doing that, make sure the top of the left column says Hi (Squidoo username).

Click the Lensmaster RSS Feeds link.

Towards the middle of the resulting page, you’ll see a section called “Show off your fanclub” with the HTML code you’ll need to show the button on your site(s).

I hope that helps.

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JD

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Where did you get the counters, off the sites?

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I’m pleased with the results I’ve gotten.

However, as the list of people on Tim’s script’s list grows, I think we’ll see it taper off as new people become less willing to follow everyone in the list. He may have to tweak it, then, to improve the results. We’ll just have to wait and see.

I have not subscribed to everyone who subscribes to me, either.

If it looks like an account has all bot responses, I’ll pass.

Yesterday, I had a dog with a Twitter account follow me and I decided I just didn’t care what that dog was going to tweet about. I did follow the dog’s owner.

As I’ve said before, I tend to cast a big net first and then toss out what I don’t want. I have enough time to approach Twitter this way, and I know a lot of people don’t.

Others prefer to take a more focused approach, such as you describe, and follow only the people (and possibly dogs) that interest them.

I think either way works okay, depending upon the individual.

The TwitterCounter graphic is plain HTML - no javascript. It looks like they do all the updates to the counters on their server and just generate new graphics periodically for each person with an account. I’m sure this is a part of their daily updates.

I’m trying to be careful about adding more javascript here. I think the page loads slowly enough, as it is. Hopefully, it loads much faster on broadband.

I noticed that about 30 more people are following me on Twitter since the last time I looked at the TwitterCounter graphic, yesterday.

Now, I need to check my email and follow (most of) them back.

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It’s interesting that’s worked for you. I have to admit that I haven’t subscribed to every person who decides to follow me on Twitter, but I do check everyone out and then make my decisions afterwards. I haven’t thought about adding the Twitter counter either, but yours is interesting. Can you tell me if it’s another javascript thing?

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