Should You Use Twitter Friend Adder Tools?
Everybody wants to have more friends on Twitter. Twitter was originally designed for people to share information and find like minded people to mingle with. But spammers, marketers, and even the average Joe have become obsessed with having more followers. For spammers, it’s really the case of working the numbers to your favor. If you are getting 1 victim out of 1000 people who follow you, then you try to get more people to increase your chances. For marketers, it’s not only about pushing offers, but also showing others what you are capable of as a “twitter expert.” Even the average Twitter users have become obsessed with having more friends. At the end of the day, the more friends you have, the better off you are, right?
Twitter is not about having more friends. It’s about having quality friends. There are a lot of folks who get more out of their 100 tweeps than top marketers do from their 10,000 followers. So quality is really important when it comes to following and getting followed on Twitter. That hasn’t stopped people from using Friend adders to get more followers on Twitter. While I am not a big fan of automating the friend finding process, if you approach it the right way and follow people for the sake of expanding your network in a quality fashion, you may be able to save some time with these friend adders.
Humming Bird and Tweet Adder are both decent tools to follow a lot of people automatically. By decent, I mean they let you find quality friends and follow them in batches instead of doing it by hand one by one. These tools are designed to help you automate the process of finding and following friends on Twitter. It’s not tough to see why a lot of people look at these services and discount them as a spamming tool. I am not going to argue that the potential is there to use these to spam people. But there is a right way and wrong way to use any tool. Even Google can be used to pull off some Black Hat tactics.
A lot of small businesses and start-ups do not have time to spend hours on Twitter looking at people who are talking about them and their brand. Not when they have other things to worry about. That’s where these tools come in. They allow people to spend less time staring at their Twitter screen and more time on what they are good at. You should never fully automate the process if you don’t want to be dubbed as a spammer. But there is nothing wrong with using a software package to find your friends that you can vet and start following to expand your network in a quality fashion.
There is no way to guarantee that people are going to use a specific tool to do good on Twitter or spam on it. Thankfully, Twitter has implemented many measures to identify, stop, and ban users who get a kick out of spamming others. So if you are looking to create accounts automatically (a lot of web host scammers do) or set your Twitter account on auto pilot for a year, there is a good chance Twitter will catch you and boot you. For everyone else, the above tools can save you time and money in the long run. So you can spend your time on Twitter making quality conversations instead of searching for people to follow.
Your take: should you be banned for using Twitter Friend Finder tools?
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I don’t think you should be banned for using a tool. People have the option to verify accounts of those they follow. We use a toll called Tweet Whistle to promote our web site and it’s done us good. We definitely could not get the traffic on our site in such a short time for the same money using traditional SEO and link building without it. So add this one to your list also. They have a demo so you can give it a test drive. Check it out at friendaddertools.com