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Building Your Twitter Network with TwitterMASS

Posted on April 8, 2009October 24, 2015 By Doriano 23 Comments on Building Your Twitter Network with TwitterMASS

twittermass_logo

TwitterMASS is an interesting service that can help you build your Twitter network by automatically following everyone that uses a particular hashtag. For example, let’s say you want to follow everyone interested in South by SouthWest so you setup TwitterMASS to auto follow anyone that uses the #SXSW hashtag. The same is true with any other keyword or hashtag you setup such as #AmericanIdol and the wildly popular #FollowFriday.

Now some will have an issue with this method to building your network because it seems to be a shotgun approach that requires little thought or effort. Many prefer to meticulously build their network one follower at a time after careful review of each and every follower’s follow ratio, tweet stream content and style, blog posts and other public data. Others are not as picky about whom they follow.

***Update***
TwitterMass has added some new features including something called Auto Follow Friday that picks people based on who you’ve interacted most with each week”

Here’s a quick video on how easy it is to setup
3 New Followers in 3 Minutes from Jonathan Nelson on Vimeo.

Here’s the easy to use screen for creating an auto follow rule:
twittermass_create

Notice the set timer option. That’s where you decide how long you will give these people you follow to follow you back before you unfollow them. You can give them 1 to 5 days or select the never expire option which means you don’t care if they follow you back or not. The set followers option lets you determine how many people to follow, 1 to 15 users ot follow them all. Here’s a video:


Using the Timer from Jonathan Nelson on Vimeo.

For those of you that don’t want to auto follow anyone, there’s an excellent manual method within TwitterMass that lets you search for people according to your keywords of choice. You can then manually pick and choose only those that you find interesting enough to follow.
twittermass_manual

Final thoughts

The jury is still out for me on this one. I’m still pondering whether or not this is the best way to grow your network. I know that there will be many that love this idea and just as many that will hate it. The beauty is that there’s a choice and it’s free to use (for now anyway). No matter what you decide, I think the manual method of finding valuable and interesting people to follow makes this service worth a shot anyway.
What do you think? Thumbs up or will it be some other finger?

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Comments (23) on “Building Your Twitter Network with TwitterMASS”

  1. rjeffries says:
    April 8, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    what I need is an automatic way to find and followsmartarticulatethoughtfulknowledgeablepeople who do not Tweet excessively.

  2. rjeffries says:
    April 8, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    what I need is an automatic way to find and follow

    smart
    articulate
    thoughtful
    knowledgeable

    people who do not Tweet excessively.

  3. Jonathan Nelson says:
    April 9, 2009 at 2:39 am

    thanks Paisano for such a fair and balanced review. i wanted to let you and your readers know that i'm 100% responsive to any feedback they give me. if you think there is a need to improve certain pieces of TwitterMass…I totally encourage you to let me know. http://twittermass.uservoice.com or email me directly at jonathannelson@me.com

  4. Jonathan Nelson says:
    April 8, 2009 at 9:39 pm

    thanks Paisano for such a fair and balanced review. i wanted to let you and your readers know that i'm 100% responsive to any feedback they give me. if you think there is a need to improve certain pieces of TwitterMass…I totally encourage you to let me know. http://twittermass.uservoice.com or email me directly at jonathannelson@me.com

  5. Jim Canterucci says:
    April 10, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    I think this could be really useful for limited use hashtags like a specific event. Not sure about every #followfriday as an example.

  6. Jim Canterucci says:
    April 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    I think this could be really useful for limited use hashtags like a specific event. Not sure about every #followfriday as an example.

  7. tojosan says:
    April 16, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    Agree, #followfriday is not a good example, but definitely good for other tags. Especially w/increasing use.

  8. tojosan says:
    April 16, 2009 at 11:37 am

    Agree, #followfriday is not a good example, but definitely good for other tags. Especially w/increasing use.

  9. tojosan says:
    April 16, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    Pai did a good job I agree. This didn't influence me against it or heavily in favor, but I'll definitely be giving it a look.So good you stopped by.

  10. tojosan says:
    April 16, 2009 at 11:38 am

    Pai did a good job I agree. This didn't influence me against it or heavily in favor, but I'll definitely be giving it a look.

    So good you stopped by.

  11. tojosan says:
    April 16, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    wait, what's this part about not Tweet excessively?! Ha.

  12. tojosan says:
    April 16, 2009 at 11:39 am

    wait, what's this part about not Tweet excessively?! Ha.

  13. tojosan says:
    April 16, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    This review prompts me to check this out. Hopefully this will be the type of tool that provides even more filters one could choose to add against.

  14. tojosan says:
    April 16, 2009 at 11:41 am

    This review prompts me to check this out. Hopefully this will be the type of tool that provides even more filters one could choose to add against.

  15. paisano says:
    April 16, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    Thanks guys for the comments. I agree that the followfriday hashtag isn't the best one to use with twittermass because it doesn't allow you to follow any of the names that people include in their tweet with the followfriday hashtag. Twittermass only follows the person that nominated all of those people that you might want to follow. The only way you can follow those nominated people is if they in turn use the followfriday hashtag themselves.

  16. paisano says:
    April 16, 2009 at 11:52 am

    Thanks guys for the comments. I agree that the followfriday hashtag isn't the best one to use with twittermass because it doesn't allow you to follow any of the names that people include in their tweet with the followfriday hashtag. Twittermass only follows the person that nominated all of those people that you might want to follow. The only way you can follow those nominated people is if they in turn use the followfriday hashtag themselves.

  17. rjeffries says:
    April 16, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    you are very observant. I've recently been experimenting with Tweeting more often as a way to increase my number of followers. And I've very recently become a “promiscuous ” Twitter follower. It's an experiment, not sure it is the right approach.Still interestrd in how to best find smart articulate people who do not spew Tweets. ;)But it's fair to say: “Define “spew”be well

  18. rjeffries says:
    April 16, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    you are very observant. I've recently been experimenting with Tweeting more often as a way to increase my number of followers.

    And I've very recently become a “promiscuous ” Twitter follower. It's an experiment, not sure it is the right approach.

    Still interestrd in how to best find smart articulate people who do not spew Tweets. 😉

    But it's fair to say: “Define “spew”

    be well

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  20. Jonathan Nelson says:
    April 29, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    I wanted to let y'all know that I just added a new #FollowFriday feature to TwitterMass which now automates this process for you. The logic for determining and tweeting the best Follow Friday people in your network for you is based on several factors including: 1. Your tweet is based partly on percentage of RT your followers have made for you. 2. Your tweet is based partly on @ replies your followers have made towards you. 3. Your tweet is based partly on mentions of your Twitter username. 4. This job runs weekly at 3:AM(EST) every Friday for you.Hope this feature continues to help people in building a rich, relevant and focused Twitter network.Best,Jonathan NelsonP.S. I just launched the MillionDollarFollow.com advertising network earlier this week. People can list their Twitter profile on MillionDollarFollow.com for just $1 and receive the chance to be drawn and rewarded with up to 1 million Twitter followers. Only 150 people will be drawn. Only 1 winner will receive one million followers. 5 cents from every dollar ad spot on Million Dollar Follow will go towards MalariaNoMore.org relief.

  21. Jonathan Nelson says:
    April 29, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    I wanted to let y'all know that I just added a new #FollowFriday feature to TwitterMass which now automates this process for you. The logic for determining and tweeting the best Follow Friday people in your network for you is based on several factors including:

    1. Your tweet is based partly on percentage of RT your followers have made for you.
    2. Your tweet is based partly on @ replies your followers have made towards you.
    3. Your tweet is based partly on mentions of your Twitter username.
    4. This job runs weekly at 3:AM(EST) every Friday for you.

    Hope this feature continues to help people in building a rich, relevant and focused Twitter network.

    Best,
    Jonathan Nelson

    P.S. I just launched the MillionDollarFollow.com advertising network earlier this week. People can list their Twitter profile on MillionDollarFollow.com for just $1 and receive the chance to be drawn and rewarded with up to 1 million Twitter followers. Only 150 people will be drawn. Only 1 winner will receive one million followers. 5 cents from every dollar ad spot on Million Dollar Follow will go towards MalariaNoMore.org relief.

  22. afallison says:
    June 9, 2009 at 2:54 am

    Twitter is so cool. I love the way disqus mixes the 2 so well Twitter is awesome. 😉 moretwittertraffic.com

  23. afallison says:
    June 8, 2009 at 9:54 pm

    Twitter is so cool. I love the way disqus mixes the 2 so well Twitter is awesome. 😉 moretwittertraffic.com

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