70 Ways To Make People Follow You On Twitter

How to get more followers on Twitter?

That’s the question I’ve been asked in the last months.That’s why I decided to write an article to help all people who are interested in getting famous on Twitter.

1. Create an attractive design and use warm colors for your page – You can find many beautifull and great Twitter backgrounds at http://www.twitterbackgrounds.com/ and http://www.twitterbackgroundsgallery.com/

2. Use TwitterGetter

3. Write every day – Writing content will help potential followers to find you using the Twitter search.Remember that you don’t have to write every second…this will make your followers to go crazy(the main idea is to create lots of content)

4 to others – Creating a conversation is very important, it will help you to build credibility and trust

5. Follow other people – You have to show others that you care and you are active user.If you follow them they will follow you just because you did help them to get their community bigger.

6. Write about interesting subjects – People are always interested in hot subjects so they want to read everything is interested.

7. Build relationships with twitters – Help them and they will help you

8. Use twiddeo.com – Posting videos on Twitter will help people know you better.

9. Post personal videos – People like videos and they want to know you

10. Twitt about your passions and what you love to do

11. Use other social media websites – Promote your twitter using other social media websites like Digg, MySpace, Facebook…

12. Invite your firends to write reply to you – Replyes are one of the best ways to make your Twitter

13. Add Twitter Counter or Twitter buttons to your websites or blogs

14. Answer questions – help users by answering questions and they will help you by following.

15. Use TwitterFeed – TwitterFeed will post updates about your latest article on your blog (is great because this is automatically) - http://twitterfeed.com/

16. Create an application – Is true that you have to be a developer for that but is not hard to ask one to create it for you and you get to post your Twitter URL there!

17. Submit a design to twitter backgrounds websites – Create your own designs and add a link to your profile

18. Promote your profile using forum signatures – Forums are great way to promote your website and profile

19. Post a link to your E-mail signature

20. Buy a banner or a link to your profile – The best way to get followers yet is not free

21. Ask other user to exchange profile URLs

22. Get more links to your profile – More links to your profile will make Google to place your profile URL in top after the PR update.

23. Add profile url to your photos – You can promote your work adding a copyright along with a twitter url

24. Use a cool profile picture – You have to make a good impresion as soon as you get on follower eyes

25. Write interesting and great bio – is an important thing to create some kind of relationship between you and follower

26. Use John Chow’s Twitter Follower website – http://twitterfollower.com/

27. Ask questions – get the conversation started

28. Get in touch on IM if is possible – Is important to build trust between you and followers

29. Don’t be dissapointed when users unfollow you – They have their reasons …some leave many more follow that’s the way it works

30. Send public messages to someone who is famous @ theiruser

31. Be a part of #tweepletuesday by @sarahrobinson

32. and #followfriday

33. Post real info – people want to know you as a person

34. Follow Top Twitter Users

35. Learn how twitter gurus are working – see what the twitt about and post similar updates

36. Use http://mrtweet.net/ – Helps you to grow your followers list

37. Create Surveys – Keep users interested in your content and see what they want

38. Advertise using http://www.twitbacks.com/promote.php

39. Use http://featuredusers.com/

40. Ask me to follow

41. Retweet often – use the “RT @user” format to Retweet

42. Use all 140 characters – if you can or as many as possibe

43. Write articles on different sites – Ezine Articles is a great website for that, don’t forget to add your Twitter URL there!

44. See Twitter on steroids by John Cox – an article about how to get more than 16,000 followers in less than 90 days

45. Write about gossip and celebrities – Those are subjects interesting for many people

46. Be constant – Don’t give up and write more and more interesting

47. Don’t Protect your updates – if that option is active people can’t follow you

48. Add your TwitterFeed on your blog

49. Don’t be boring

50. Be funny – People are interested in entertainment so if you want to be followed just to this

51. Subscribe to http://getmoretwitterfollowers.com/

52. Use Mobile Advertising to get followers – read more on Washington Post

53. USocial.net guarantees to get you over 10.000 followers

54. Provide links to interesting and useful resources

55. Links to funny videos and images

56. Promote your Twitter profile on Twitter directories – Twellow, WeFollow and Just Tweet It

57. Build Google Gadgets – Add twitter profile in the description http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/

58. TweeTag helps you to tag updates – visit Tweetag

59. If you are a really fan of Twitter you can personalize a T-Shirt with your profile URL

60. Design Wallpapers and add your profile URL

61. Twitter Online System – Over 14 million followers

62. TSEO – Twittersearch Engine Optimization. You can ask a specialist to help you to optimize your twitter profile

63. Answer to questions on Yahoo! Answer – You can also ask people to follow you

64. Sign up on http://twitdir.com/ – Top Twitter users directory

65. TweetScan helps you to find people with same interests like you, people who are interested in following you

66. Start threads about Twitter on forums

67. Follow people who follows you

68. Join Twitter Groups

69. Be more personal

70. Use keywords to describe you, your website

Hope this tips will be useful for you

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Steve Jobs back to work at Apple

Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is back at work after a five-and-a-half-month medical leave, during which he received a liver transplant.

Jobs, 54, is working from Apple's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters "a few days a week" and working from home the remaining days, Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said Monday.

The Apple chief was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He had surgery in 2004 and announced then that he was cured.

Last year, Jobs' dramatic weight loss prompted new questions about his health. In early January, he said in a statement that he was suffering from an easily treated hormone imbalance, but less than two weeks later Jobs said his medical condition was more complex than he initially thought. He announced he would take a leave of absence until the end of June.

Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tenn., said last week that Jobs had received a liver transplant, confirming an earlier report in The Wall Street Journal.

Jobs was recovering well and his prognosis was good, the hospital said.

Few CEOs are considered as instrumental to their companies as Jobs has been to Apple since he returned in 1997 after a 12-year hiatus. With Jobs serving as head showman and demanding elegance in product design, Apple has expanded from a niche computer maker to become the dominant producer of portable music players and a huge player in the cell phone business.

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HTC Hero's Teflon Coating Makes the iPhone Feel Like Junk

The new HTC Hero next to iPhone. Not only the new Android handset has a surprisingly cool design—straight out of JJ Abrams' Star Trek or Kubrick's 2001—but it kicks the iPhone's plastic ass.

Simply put, the Teflon-coated back just feels and looks a lot better than the iPhone's—now crappy looking, I admit—plastic back. The Hero's polytetrafluoroethylene—the technical name for DuPont's Teflon—coating feels perfect in your hand. It doesn't appear to get any skin oil at all. No greasy fingerprints, just a perfect matte finish no matter how much I touched it.

It feels and looks like a white thermal tile out of NASA's shuttle.

The iPhone's plastic finish, on the other side, is a fingerprint magnet that looks as cheap as any Chinese knockoff after holding it for a few seconds. The Hero wins hands down on appearance, even while its front is too complicated for my taste. For a company like Apple—which takes such pride in their design and manufacturing—this is bad. For a consumer like me, this sucks.

"They are getting so boring"

Once upon a time Apple used to be innovators in the use of new materials. Those were the times in which they experimented with the iMacs and PowerMacs, which finished with the arrival of aluminum. Today, apart from the unibody manufacturing—which is just a form of aluminum manufacturing, a material that has been used forever in consumer products—their use of groundbreaking materials has stagnated.

I'm not the only one saying this. About a month ago Matt Buchanan and I asked the top executive of one of the most important industrial design firms in the world about his thoughts on Apple's design. After seing Objectified—and watching a legend like Dieter Rams glorifying Apple as the only consumer electronics company that counts when it comes to industrial design—I was expecting an ode to Jon Ive and his team. Instead, he replied:

They are great, but we [him and his colleagues in the industrial design world] think they are getting so boring. I mean, don't get me wrong, they got the use of aluminum perfected now... but what happened with the excitement that they used to generate with new materials? We all expect a lot more from Apple.

He is right. Their use of plastics in the iMac spread to every single consumer appliance out there. And Kara Johnson, materials expert from IDEO believes it'll be going out of style any day now (Maybe yesterday.) But now, even aluminum is the new beige. (Even if some experts believe there are few alternatives, there are a few.)

So yes, Apple should use new materials. Not for the sake of it, of course. They should use whatever materials fit the product technical needs. And for me, one of these needs as a consumer is that the product should look great at all times, and not just look great in the box or behind a store glass.

The need for new materials

The iPhone has this problem. It looks like crap with little use. They have tried to fix part of it with the oleophobic coating on the front glass—something that the HTC Hero also has—but the overall effect keeps being the same: Its back still looks cheap after some time.

One thing to note

For this reason we were all hoping for a matte back in the iPhone 3GS, but apparently Apple decided not to release it for one reason or the other.

I don't know and I don't care. What I do care about is that, after playing with the Hero, my iPhone now feels like cheap crap. And I don't even like Android.

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Why We Need Steve Jobs

Love him or hate him, Apple needs its CEO back. Now.
By Daniel Lyons
Newsweek Web Exclusive

I just spent an hour waiting in a line at an Apple store to buy a product I do not need. It's the new top-of-the-line iPhone 3GS, and it costs $299, and I waited in line for it even though I already have last year's iPhone 3G model, not to mention a NEWSWEEK-issued BlackBerry, a low-end Nokia "feature phone," and a new Palm Pre, albeit a loaner unit. Why did I do this? Well, the new iPhone has a faster processor than its predecessor, and a better camera, and it shoots video. It also has more memory, so I can carry around more songs or movies. But really, I did it because I trust that whatever Apple puts out will be worth the money. I did it because I always want to have the latest and greatest from Apple. You see, Apple and its loyal customers (like me) have made a deal: it'll keep improving its products at a fantastic pace, and killing off its own products. In return, we'll keep buying whatever it makes.

In the midst of all this, some people are wondering whether Apple might be better off if Steve Jobs did not return to work from his sick leave. Jobs, Apple's visionary CEO, has been on medical leave for six months and has received a liver transplant. He's now starting to come back to work, but there are some folks who seem to wish he'd just stay away. That was kind of the gist of the story in this morning's Wall Street Journal, which praised Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook for doing such a bang-up job while the Dear Leader was away. One Wall Street analyst said the loss of Cook would be more upsetting to him than the loss of Jobs. During his absence Apple's stock has soared 60 percent, and the company sold 1 million units of the iPhone 3GS during the product's debut weekend.

So who needs Steve Jobs? Especially since he's known for being, well, difficult. He's created a weird corporate culture of secrecy about his health and everything else at Apple, as The New York Times pointed out this morning.

Times columnist Joe Nocera goes further and says that if Jobs and his directors won't come clean about his health problems, they're guilty of "dereliction of duty" and should be forced to resign.

OK. Deep breath. Let's admit that Jobs is a royal pain in the neck. Most of us probably wouldn't want to work for him, or live next door to him, or have to negotiate deals with him. He's spoiled, and arrogant, and he has a terrible temper. But he's also brilliant. Those lines at the Apple store today? Tim Cook didn't create those. Neither did Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing chief, or Ron Johnson, the retail boss who runs the stores, or even Jon Ive, Apple's design guru. No, Steve Jobs is the one who gets those people to line up. He's the one with the vision. He's the one who inspires the fanboys.

Cook is a great manager, a whiz when it comes to managing supply chains and keeping the trains running on time. He is vital to Apple. Jobs cannot do what he does. But neither can Cook do what Jobs does. The fact is, Apple needs both of them. Forgive me for the analogy I am about to make—but if you've seen the latest Star Trek movie, then you might understand how Cook and Jobs work together. Cook is Spock: low-key, cerebral, methodical. He's the Apollonian counterpart to Kirk, the Dionysian hothead. Kirk is impulsive—but nobody would deny that he, not Spock, should be captain of the ship.

So it is with Steve Jobs and Apple, only more so. Apple is Steve; Steve is Apple. No CEO is as important to his company as Jobs is to Apple. I would go farther and argue that not only does Apple need Steve Jobs—the world needs him. In an age when the pace of technology innovation keeps accelerating so much that we often feel overwhelmed, we need someone who can package new technology, make it accessible to us, and deliver it to us in a way that makes it simple, useful, and reliable. How many things in your life work as well as your Macintosh, or your iPod, or your iPhone? (Allowing for the fact that AT&T's cell network stinks.)

So, yes, today I waited an hour in line for my new phone. As soon as I got it, right there in the store I typed in my account information for MobileMe, Apple's online service, and watched as all of my e-mail, contacts, calendar information, and bookmarks zipped through the air and filled up my phone. Like magic. In seconds. Without a hiccup.

Then I went back to my office and tried to write this article on a PC on which I'm running the beta version of Windows 7, the brand-new version of Microsoft's operating system. I'd written a paragraph when the PC crashed, for no reason. I started up again, rewrote the paragraph, and then the PC froze—again for no reason. At that point I gave up and just wrote the story on my Apple MacBook Pro, a pricey but rock-solid little notebook that runs on an operating system I can't remember ever crashing. I have no idea what makes one operating system work better than another, except that I know you need to have someone in charge who keeps telling the engineers that it's not good enough—go back and do better. And that, my friends, is why Apple, and all of us, need Steve Jobs.


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More iPhone Killers? Yawn.

Deutsche Telekom's (NYSE: DT) T-Mobile wants another run at Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone. This time Motorola (NYSE: MOT) wants to join the robot party, too. Good luck with that.

I don't mean to be snarky. Well, OK, yes, I do. Android hasn't dampened enthusiasm for rival smartphones. Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) gobbled more smartphone market share than Apple did last quarter, and Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) set a new opening weekend sales record for Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) handsets.

Yet just when it seems as though the iPhone is vulnerable, Apple sells 1 million 3Gs handsets during its first weekend on sale.

Can you hear me now?
T-Mobile plans on releasing at least two Android handsets this year. The first, called myTouch, is a fully functional handset designed by Taiwan's HTC and is expected to hit stores in August. Like the iPhone, the myTouch will come with a touchscreen keyboard but stand apart from its rival with a wide array of customization features. For example, users will be able to rearrange menus, wallpapers, and icons, Computerworld reports.

We know less about Motorola's entry. One possible advantage: tie-ups with both T-Mobile and Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) wireless group, which is also pursuing the Pre. The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported that Motorola plans to have an Android handset ready for both networks before the end of the year.

Neither offering looks like an iPhone killer. That's no slight; it's just that RIM has tried and failed. So have others. Palm's Pre is as close to a breakthrough device as we've seen since the iPhone launched, and still consumers and businesses are buying the new iPhone.

Maybe there is no killing the iPhone. Maybe it really is the Next Big Thing. And maybe the truth is that, for as much hype as there is surrounding Android as a smartphone operating system, its best hope is as a netbook OS.

What's your take? Use the comments box below to tell us what you think.

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Apple investors fear losing Cook

Cook is hot property following his success at running Apple in Jobs absence
By Karen Haslam

Apple COO Tim Cook has done such a good job of running Apple during CEO Steve Jobs absence that investors are now fearing what would happen to the company should he leave.

Piper Jaffray Gene Munster told the Wall Street Journal: "At this point, losing Tim Cook would be a bigger deal to investors than if Steve Jobs stepped aside. Just that thought makes my stomach tighten up."

According to the Wall Street Journal report, other technology giants have tried to woo Cook in recent years: "Motorola tried to hire him last year while Dell wooed the executive two years ago," claims the report.

Co-head of the CEO practice at recruiters Korn/Ferry International Stephen Mader said: "Now it's clear that Tim Cook can run any technology-based company. He's a more attractive CEO candidate both inside Apple and outside."

Since Cook took the helm from Jobs (who took six months sick leave) in mid January, Apple's stock has risen 60 per cent, compared with an 18 per cent increase in the Nasdaq Composite Index.

This is the second time Cook has taken over the day-to-day running of Apple. Last time was in 2004 when Jobs was recovering from surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas.

Cook is also credited with pulling Apple out of near bankruptcy when he joined the company in 1998. Needham & Co analyst Charles Wolf said: "He turned a company that was on the brink of bankruptcy into one that is generating a huge amount of free cash."

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15 Sites To Find A Free Twitter Background

This my first Twitter related article, why twitter? Because I am using it, since some time when I decided to start with social media networks, and all those stuff like this blog, so if you want to start with this too, just sing up for free and follow me @wpbulk as your first added follower and you will get really good design and animation tweet links and even more.

With Twitter as one of the hottest site into the social media network (like facebook, myspace, Delicious, Flickr), everyone wants to be there, but at the same time, we all try to stand out from the crowd, we don’t want to be the same as our followers or even the same that our competitors (if you use it for business), you want to be recognizable with something, and that brings to you basically two options, first your own profile picture and second is your background image.

Changing your profile image is easy, because we all have a picture that we use on almost every social media site by default, but the background is more difficult because you don’t have a good image ready to set up on your Twitter settings, so normally at the begging you go with the default blue twitter background, but sometime later you’ll want to change it for something different, that could help you if you want to grab more followers, as well, the change of those items shows the idea that you’re not a spammer, you are an active member of the twitter community, and that is really appreciated by the others.

So here is a list of sites where you cand find a twitter background for your profile, made by you with some default items, or just a good picture that you’re sure its going to fix in almost every monitor resolution.

twitpaper.com

twittergallery.com

twitbacks.com

freetwitterdesigner.com

tweetstyle.com

mytweetspace.com

twitter-backgrounds.net

twitterpatterns.com

twitterbacks.com

limeshot.com

twitterimage.com

blog.webdistortion.com

tweetpages.com

twitterbackgroundsgallery.com

tweetbaks.com

Do you think I forgot something? Maybe you can add other sites I didn’t mentioned or just let me a comment with your Twitter username to see what is your Twitter background.

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Empty lines of iPhone 3GS

It seems that there are empty lines for iPhone 3GS. Maybe people just aren't willing to wait in line for a bump in speed, improved graphics, and video recording. Or, maybe they just decided to wait for a real upgrade.

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iPhone 3.0 is now available for Download

iPhone OS 3.0 was first shown in a Preview event for developers in March, and since then it has been in news with 100 new features that are going to be released with it for both, iPhone and iPod Touch. iPhone OS 3.0 beta was also leaked several times.

Features

The reason why this is called a major OS update for iPhone can be read below.

• Download content within apps
• Peer-to-peer Connectivity
• Support for external accessories
• Improved Maps app.
• Push Notifications for more apps
• Cut, copy and paste feature

Download OS 3.0 for iPhone - iPod Touch

The direct download links can be found below.

Download OS 3.0 for iPhone

Download OS 3.0 for iPhone 3G: iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw

Download OS 3.0 for iPod Touch

Download OS 3.0 for iPod Touch 2G

Download links:
iPhone 3G

http://tinyurl.com/iphone3gdirect30-sneerwell

iPhone 2G
http://tinyurl.com/iphone2gdirect30-sneerwell

iPod Touch 1G
http://tinyurl.com/ipod1g-direct-30-sneerwell

iPod Touch 2G
http://tinyurl.com/ipod2g-direct-30-sneerwell

Following download links for iPhone 3.0 are hosted on Rapidshare.

iPhone 3G
http://tinyurl.com/iphone3g-firm3-1al-sneerwell
http://tinyurl.com/iphone3g-firm3-2al-sneerwell
http://tinyurl.com/iphone3g-firm3-3al-sneerwell

iPhone 2G
http://tinyurl.com/iphone2g-firm3-1al-sneerwell
http://tinyurl.com/iphone2g-firm3-2al-sneerwell
http://tinyurl.com/iphone2g-firm3-3al-sneerwell

iPod Touch 1G
http://tinyurl.com/ipod1g-firm3-1-sneerwell
http://tinyurl.com/ipod1g-firm3-2

http://tinyurl.com/ipod1g-firm3-3-sneerwell

iPod Touch 2G
http://tinyurl.com/ipod2g-firm3-1
http://tinyurl.com/ipod2g-firm3-2
http://tinyurl.com/ipod2g-firm3-3

28 Twitter App ( Applications ) You Should Have !!!

We all know what Twitter is and what it does; it has exploded into popular culture. Twitter is absolutely everywhere these days and has become difficult to avoid. Networking sites like, Twitter and Facebook, have truly changed the way people communicate over the internet, allowing news and information to be instantaneous, constantly changing, and personalized. With sites like Twitter, we now can interact and contact just about anyone, including Al Gore, CNN, Oprah, or even, Lebron James, just to name a few. Initially, many web developers thought Twitter was too simple, but it is its simplicity that makes it so powerful, because it can be used by anyone and everyone.

Twitter gives us more power to interact with the world, and it is an incredible way to share the most up-to-date news and information, which is why it is so popular, even among web developers. However, Twitter is not perfect, and this is why Twitter applications have become so popular, because they tweak Twitter to make it that much better. Twitter applications are merely websites which complement Twitter and improve its usability. Here is a list of 20 Twitter applications, which I have encountered on the internet that I find useful. Please feel free to comment or contribute more applications to expand this list! Enjoy!

2tweet

Big Tweet

Favotter

Flock O’ Tweets

Monitter

Popacular

Remindr

ReTweetist

TweetDeck

Twimailer

Twission

twitpic

TwittBot

Twitter Analyzer

twitterfeed

Twitteroo

TwitterVision

twoak

TWT Poll

Twuffer