of setting up a filter to follow people who follow or are followed by other Twitter users. While you might think it’s just too easy and not very ethical – to ‘poach’ someone else’s contacts, from e
Experience it’s not nearly.
People on Twitter have no real more database control over who follows them, and unless they are judicious (as you will become) about whom they follow, this list can end up looking quite random. You might also discover a large percentage of their followers are inactive
accounts or spammers.
Still, if you start by saying you want to follow the followers of (or those followed by) a specific user, and then qualify it with some of the other filters, you might end up with a list of good leads. On this topic, one thing you might not have thought of is following people who follow one of your other Twitter
accounts if you have more than
one For example, recently I set up though I have close to followers on my @LynnSerafinn account, this search resulted in only a few hundred people. One possible reason for this is that I may already be following them (or have unfollowed them) on my other account. The other reason is that my filters here are very strict, narrowing down the results to only the most active
You might ask WHY I would
want to follow some of the same people on more than one of my accounts (I also have a third account @SpiritAuthors, which is ONLY for things related to writing, publishing, book marketing). Am I not being redundant here? To understand my reasoning, bear in mind that I don’t Tweet exactly the same content on my accounts