Twitter is a great way to promote your content and network with other bloggers. Isn’t it?
Before I begin this post, let me tell you something: This post is about why I created a new twitter account even though I had a pretty good looking one; Let me make it clear: I used automated techniques to gain followers. And now, I decided to correct that “mistake”.
By the way, do you have multiple twitter accounts? If yes, why? If not, why? Keep the answer in your mind. You will need it towards the end of this post 
So, Why did I create a new Twitter Account?
I know what you might be thinking now. What? Is this guy crazy or something? How could I know why he created a new twitter account.
Well, to all those people who are thinking that right now, Just guess. Why do you think I did? Most of you guys have a twitter account so I think it would be easy for you to guess why I did.
Well, that’s that. Let’s get into the content:
Unlike many other bloggers who keep multiple accounts, I didn’t create another one to get more exposure or do more marketing. I created a new Twitter account due to a couple of reasons. Here they are:
I used “dishonest” ways to gain followers
I didn’t really get all my followers in the “right” way – by promoting my content and engaging with others. Instead, I used several sites (I am not mentioning any names) to grow my followers. And I used techniques like mass follow to gain more twitter followers. And I got followers pretty easily.
In 4-5 months, I was up to about 1k followers (that’s when I decided that it was enough and I will build the rest on my own – through the “right” way).
I plan to be honest with my new twitter handle. I will use honest techniques to build my followers base. In a way, that is also a good thing. I will be able to experiment a lot of techniques that I have in mind and learn a lot of new thing along with it.
Right now, I have decided to build this new twitter account and delete my old one in a few weeks.
I didn’t have a relationship with my followers
If you want to be successful with blogging, then it is really important to build a positive relationship with your followers. Well, since I used techniques like mass follow to gain followers, I didn’t have any relationship with my followers. Most of them didn’t even know me, what I did or what I blogged about.
I consider my followers as my friends. And I have to have a relationship with them. Recently, I realized that I didn’t have a relationship with most of my followers. Most of them were following me because I followed them, not because of my content or my methods.
Through my new account, I plan to build my follower base by building relationships and placing value over everything else. Having a good relationship with my followers will help me to promote my content and write better posts too.
And for me, having a relationship with my followers, will serve as a motivator to blog and network more.
I want my followers to be follow me because they like my content
Yes. I don’t want some random person to follow me (at least not right now). I want my followers to follow me because they either like my content or my blogging style. I don’t want them to follow me because I followed them (or for any other reason). And If my followers like my content/personality/blog, they will be more likely to help with promoting my content 
I want to network with each and every follower
I have always believed that a post can get better when you have a lot of feedback. Having a good number of followers whom I really connect and engage with, can help to me answer my questions and help me with problems and suggestions to improve my blog and my blogging style.
Using Automated Ways To Gain Followers
Using automated ways to gain twitter followers is okay. But, as I mentioned here, if you want your followers to be loyal followers and want to have a positive relationship with them, then you need build your followers the natural way – tweet, promote, engage and gain followers.
Or if you use automated ways to gain followers and then build relationships with them (but that would take a lot of effort and time).
If you just want to have followers and show them off, then you don’t need to anything. But, if you want your followers to be your friends (And help you with marketing etc), then you need to build a positive relationship with them.
Note from Mavis: I get targeted Twitter followers using several ways including a powerful Twitter tool. However, I bring them to my blog to build relationships with them. I share all my best kept secrets in my Twitter Marketing Domination guide.
Do you have another twitter account?
What do you think? Did you make anything out of my post? Do you think that I made a good decision? Would you mind to share your thoughts on using “dishonest” ways to get more twitter followers? Do you think whether those followers will be loyal? Are your followers loyal to you? Do you have a relationship with your followers?
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I use the following each other unspoken rule of reciprocity – following related people. Then I engage my followers, I Retweet, I go engage on search topics and trends, locally and globally.
I hope that sounds ok?
If this post was to disapprove of buying followers, it goes without saying.
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Hey Ivin,
Thanks for the comment!
Well, I guess that is alright. My principle is that you have to engage them and get them to follow you.
It is about both building followers by just following others (mass-follow) and about buying followers. I like gaining followers through the normal method – engaging with them and sharing good content (If you go by this, there is a better chance for your followers to be loyal to you)
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Jeevan thats nice. I think that if anyone wants to expeiment with twitter techniques they should get a new twitter account. That way even if you get banned you will not lose your true twitter followers.
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Hey Eddie,
Yeah, it is a good idea to use a new account for experimentation and stuff (and find what works).
Thanks for the comment, Eddie!
By the way, if you like the post, can you help me out by reading and/or promoting the post that is linked in the comment luv – for this comment. Thanks!
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I too used emass follower techniques when I first started and need to encourage myself daily to engage with my Twitter followers. I’m not quite ready to start over again, but I am doing a great deal more of “unfollow” and interacting with my followers. Thanks for the encouragement Mavis!
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Hey Susan,
Thanks for sharing your insights
Yes, I can understand. You could try to build a good relationship with your followers (I know it is impossible to keep up with everyone – but having a good connection with most of your followers is a great thing).
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This is going to sound a little harsh but it needs to be said. I’m sure your a great guy but you are totally off here. I say this because I’m not just here to be mean or judgmental, but with some things, I can’t just keep my mouth shut.
Saying there is a “right” way and a “wrong” way to build twitter is total b.s. It all depends on what your goals are. Dishonest? Really? If your followers aren’t engaging, its not because you used twiends for goodness sake, it’s because you weren’t targeting your followers correctly. Twitter isn’t for building one on one relationships. If that’s your goal go to Facebook.
Twitter is about connecting with a large number of people at once. I have twitter followers from my blog who are my loyal fans, and I also have automated twitter followers. How on earth does the latter negate the former? Using a tool like tweetadder allows me to leverage my time and build a targeted following of thousands. Maybe you have time to sit around all day fiddling around with your followers, but some of us actually have more important things to do.
Then there is the whole topic social proof. You obviously have no concept of how this works, or how important it is. You need to read more.
Who do you think you are deciding what’s right or wrong? Honest or dishonest? I don’t have a dishonest bone in my body. My sole purpose in this industry is to provide value and to build relationships and I use tweetadder to do it.
Seriously, just stick to Facebook and leave twitter to the rest of us.
Like I said in the beginning, it’s nothing personal, you’re just wrong here.
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Hey Micah,
Yes, I do understand what you are talking about.
I didn’t say that automation is bad, I just said that automation makes it harder for you to target your readers and building trust with your readers.
What’s right for you might not be right for someone else. Yes, some people might consider my decision as unwise and I am totally okay with that. I did what I felt I should do (and I will always stick with it).
Yes, it does depend upon your goals. My goal is to build a large following while providing value to my followers/subscribers – a following that trusts me.
For me, It’s not really about the amount of “people” who are following you. It is amount the amount of people who are really loyal to you – they trust you. And these automated tools don’t really give you loyal followers – you have to make them loyal. You see, I could have build a relationship with the rest of the followers – that I got through automation. But, that just takes up a lot of time and effort.
Instead, I decided to do this. I understand that social proof is important and that it works. But, I don’t really care much about it. I care about providing value to my readers – I don’t really care about the number of subscribers – I want my followers/subscribers to find my blog/twitter account useful. That’s all there is to.
You may have a totally different concept and that’s alright. I like talking with people who have different concepts
Thanks for understanding,
Jeevan Jacob John
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I still don’t agree with you, but if everyone agreed with each other all the time the world would be a pretty boring place.
I suppose the bottom line is to do what you enjoy, and what works for you. If this is what works for you then more power to you my friend.
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Yes, of course
Thanks for understand, Micah. Appreciate your thoughts.
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Hello,
Great article.You are right it is really important to build a positive relationship with your followers. After reading your article I will do the same.
Thanks for sharing .
Best regards,
Amrik Virdi
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Hey Amrik,
Thanks! I am glad that my post helped.
No problem and thanks for leaving a comment!
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Great post!
Yes indeed, I have often heard many bloggers go in for a new handle for the very same reasons you shared above and it does make a lot of sense as well! I guess you need to have really followers who would always stay with you and like you for the content you share, rather than just waiting for you to follow them back and if you don’t do so being quick to unfollow you!
I guess I was very careful right from day one as I had learnt from such bloggers and their expereicnes they had shared, thus am very careful to choose whom I follow.
Thanks for the wonderful reminder
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Hey Harleena,
Thanks!
No problem
Yes, I decided to do the same too. So that, I can build a truly loyal follower base 
That’s great. I am glad that you are careful on choosing the people you follow.
No problem and thanks for the comment!
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I have more than one Twitter account right now, and I’m using them for separate campaigns of my other websites. But of course my main Twitter account is always my “main” focus, while the others are just being tested to see if my campaigns are performing well or not.
Dan Lew
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Hey Dan,
Thanks for sharing your insights
Yeah, I tried to do that, but that doesn’t work out for me (I don’t really have time to manage multiple accounts).
Thanks for the comment
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Hi, This is excellent way to get more followers,now i understand why New Twitter Account is necessary for Automated Followers. This is great idea and i really want to implement it.
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Appreciate it and hope my article helped.
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I just follow back everyone who follows me. I do my best to retweet the tweets that I find useful and rply to all mentions when posible. It seems to work pretty well. Thanks for the great post!
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Hey Micheal,
If that works for you, then yes, go with it
What I usually do is try to engage with my new followers – if they do reply back and network – well, then I will follow them 
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Jeevan,
I have to partially agree and disagree with you
While full automation is not good, some automation doesn’t hurt. Let’s be honest. Who has the time for social media? If you have to manually build your followers (daily searching for appropriate people to follow, follow them and interact with them).
To me partial automation is great. I use Tweetadder to partial automate my Twitter activities. I leave it to the tool to find people I need to follow. But as Mavis says, I bring them to my blog and interact with them.
I use Marketmesuite to scan @mentions, DMs etc and promptly reply them, if needed. I do tweet other people’s stuff when I blog hop. And if it is my favorite blog, I auto feed MMS to tweet that blog’s feed.
So as you see, I do automate stuff, but still not as a bot. I do know when people give me a shout out and I callout and greet others as well.
IMO, a little automation doesn’t hurt. We need to see that we don’t go overboard!
Nice post.
Cheers,
Jane.
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Hey Jane,
Yes, of course. I agree with you
There are good things to using automated methods – saving time. Like you said, nobody has the time to do all of this. Automation can also help to find great people to follow.
Thanks for the comment, Jane!
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Yes Jeevan, I do have a twitter account. However, I have seen that many people started following me even when I was not putting any updates actively on twitter. I do not know how it happened. In this case we cannot accurately know about who is following us genuinely. What do you say?
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Hey Bayard,
Yes, I understand. Most of those followers, I think, are just bots (more than half of twitter users are bots). It is indeed hard to identify genuine people – I usually look at the bio and timeline.
Thanks for the comment!
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It’s tough to be personally involved with 4,000 people. At some point too many followers means there’s no way to even communicate with anyone. Luckily, so many of them are bots
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Hey Darren,
Yes, of course
But, you could still keep in touch, occasionally. My principle is to form just a “circle” of people with whom I regularly network and then keep in touch with new and existing followers.
Thanks for the comment!
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Hi Jeevan,
I’ve never used any automated systems to grow my twitter accounts. Yes, I have two because I was targeting different niches but in the meantime they’re fused together.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with your idea to create a new twitter account and grow it only with very targeted followers. I’m a bit confused though. Can’t you do the same thing by creating a specific twitter list for specific people?
For example: I have a very targeted twitter list that feeds into my Paper.li Twitter Newspaper. That way I am on top what those followers I really care about are up to and I never miss any of their tweets.
Just thinking
All the best,
Ilka
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Hey Ilka,
Thanks for the comment!
Yes, I could have done that. You know, there is one more thing to it: I want to experiment with my new account – how much time I can spend, how fast can I grow this many followers etc – through “right” methods – I mean, without automating the followers.
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This is so true. I hardly have a relationship with any of my followers on Twitter and when I do try to engage them, they don’t respond. I think I should start a new twitter account too. This is a good suggestion. Thanks! Amy
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Hey Amy,
I am glad that you agree
Well, that also depends – whether they are actual people or bots, and whether they really care about spending time and replying on twitter.
No problem and thanks for the comment
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First, I do NOT believe in using this feature for sending people directly to sales pages, ads, videos, etc. NO ONE LIKES RECEIVING THESE! IT’S INCREDIBLY ANNOYING AND PEOPLE WILL BLOCK YOU.. INCLUDING ME. It’s called Twitter etiquette : )
Secondly, I DO believe in using this service as a time saver in order to connect further with your audience by reaching out to them through a DM, which gives an added message so you are not forgotten in the mix. It’s another chance for your audience to connect further with you.
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Hey Rob,
Yes of course
There are a lot of people who use automated features for sending spammy auto DMs etc.
Yes, use these methods to save your time. But, I will never recommend anyone use automated methods to get followers
Anyways, thanks for the comment!
I have around 5 twitter accounts but none of them are to get more visitors. All are different accounts because I have 5 blogs so created 5 different twitter accounts :-p
And i never used any automated followers tricks to get followers. If i did I wouldn’t have 10-15 followers for my blog right now.
Anyway nice article.
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Hey Geetha,
Wow, 5 different blogs! It must take a lot of time to manage everything.
Thanks for sharing your insights
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I agree with your move Jeevan. I also use to have business accounts in Twitter. Then I realize to have a personal Twitter account to interact with my followers as a human. Now I’m already sticking to that account and I like it.
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Hey Vic,
Glad that you agree
That’s great. Are you getting good results?
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I have few twitter accounts as well because I have may different websites as I can’t post sports news to followers who are interested in children care or similar ways. If I would have only one website then of course there would be only one twitter account.
And about “mass fallowing” to get more followers it’s ok, because people won’t follow empty account and it won’t rise any credibility to your website if people will see that you have few followers. So you need a place from where to start.
Hey Mike,
Yes, of course
You need to build the base first – share updates, recommend, follow, network and follow again 
Thanks for leaving a comment!
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Twitter tools are effective but there should be some human intervention and not completely automated twitter profile which no followers will like.. Still im yet to start using twitter tools
Hey Jay,
Yes, of course.
Good luck to you
Thanks for the comment!
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You can update your profile daily with new updates,you could also share your blogs & many things…many of the followers will join you…
Don’t take tension …..You’ll have many followers in future….
I think using Twitter is that you need to benchmark, test and verify the results. Most people probably don’t know how good twitter can be for their business, and many don’t realize how effective it is.
Hey Becca,
I agree. People need to experiment and find out what works for them and then follow those techniques.
Thanks for the comment, Becca
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Hi Jeevan,
Thanks for your post. Very valuable since this is something on my mind at the moment. I´m using a syndication tool and I´m begiinning to question this method since I get comments from people seeing “all” of my posts, wich then are syndicated through others. It becomes like a mass production.
It seems noone is opening messages since there are so “many” of them.
Spammy? Ethical? Clutter? I don´t know. But I´m glad you brought it up.
Best,
Sanna
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Hey Sanna,
No problem
It is indeed a difficult question to ask ourselves. I think it depends upon who you ask,
Anyways, thanks for sharing your insights with us, Sanna!
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This article serves as a friendly reminder to those whom are using social marketing platforms solely for the use of marketing. It is certainly beneficial, as you said to build relationships with your fans rather than treating them as a number. Thank you for your insightful information!
I am glad that you agree with me, Jordan! Yes, I think our focus should be on building positive and trustful relationships with our readers (not on the number of readers we have).
Anyways, thanks for the comment!
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Getting followers through the back doors is not genuine for blogger who want to reach out to a large audience.remember that you are blogging because you want to solve a problem for people and not to just have them for exposure.interacting with your followers will definitely link you to more.nice tips you got.
Hey Tim,
Yes, of course. Going through the back doors may get you good benefits in the short term, but in the long term, it will do you more harm than good.
Thanks for the comment, Tim!
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Establishing a relationship/rapport with followers can pay huge dividends in increasing conversion rates. I know for me, I haven’t tried to gain thousands of followers but I’ve had a couple of deals from those followers so all in all I’m happy. In social media, it’s important to engage. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Wailea,
That’s great. I am glad that you are focusing on the quality of the relationship and not focusing on the quantity, unlike many other bloggers.
Anyways, thanks for the comment
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Getting another Twitter account to grow followers from the ground up seems like a lot of extra work. To me, it does not matter how the followers were attained, the important thing is the current interactions. Even though I put my 10 K followers in myself, I get very little feedback from them…most are spammers. I am learning new and better ways to engage them. If I only make a couple key contacts from my account, that is enough.
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Hey David,
Yes, it is. Well, I guess that’s alright. But, I think it is way harder to build your followers first and then build relationships than building relationships while gaining followers. But, I guess you should stick with what that works for you.
Anyways, thanks for the comment! Appreciate it.
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well explained Jeevan Jacob John ,
your explanation is very good ,twitter is helping me to get clients , get latest news about technology . your strategy is very cool
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