Struggling to Get Twitter Followers: Buy Em
9/05/2009So you’ve tried all the usual ways to get Twitter Followers and even the more dodgy methods, but you still can’t get any followers! Well you could try buying em.
Featured Users is a Twitter advertising network that you can use to give your profile more exposure and hopefully pick up new followers along the way.
You purchase banner impressions which will be displayed on various web based Twitter apps. The banner is generated automatically and inlcudes your avatar, username and your Twitter bio.
Does it Work
We decided to put our money where our mouth is and purchase 1000 impressions for $10 ( i know not much to test with but the results should explain why we didn’t want to spend lots). The result was 15 click-throughs on our banner which, due to the nature of the tracking, we have no idea if these resulted in any actual follows.
The best case scenario would be 15 new followers which certainly wouldn’t be worth $10.
They need to do some tweaking of the banner design and probably switch to a pay-per-click model