Building Your Twitter Network with TwitterMASS

Posted on By Doriano 23 Comments on Building Your Twitter Network with TwitterMASS

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

  2. what I need is an automatic way to find and follow

    smart
    articulate
    thoughtful
    knowledgeable

    people who do not Tweet excessively.

  9. 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. 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.

  13. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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