I found this site yesterday ifollowback.com/ that helps to increase the number of Twitter followers. The idea seems good - since I’m now trying to see what Twitter really can do, both for me and for a client. Sign up with them and you start getting followers. Great idea. But for me, at this point in my Twitter life - it’s truned out to be too much, too fast.

Within an hour I started getting followers, I was spending a lot of time going through my email and checking each follower profile to see if I should add them. Most had, in my opinion, no match to my profile, but the terms of service require that I follow 90% of them. This seems totally overwhelming - I would be faced with a mass of clutter on my in box that would interfere with seeing the people I really want to follow. This reminds me of SEO a few years ago, when the idea was to cram web sites being promoted into pile of spam directories and also of reciprocal linking of sites.

Perhaps I’m too new to Twitter, but this reciprocal follow exchange seems wrong - so within a couple of hours I’d opted out.

As of this morning I had at least 50 new followers within less than 12 hours. So if that is what you want, maybe this service is good for you.