12.08.08

How DID Obama Get All Those Twitter Followers?

Nothing breeds a following like a following, this is the same in real life as in Twitter.

An interesting way to “create” a following was exposed by Michael Gray on his SEO Blog in a post about increasing your Twitter followers.

Michael points out, “When you create a new profile on twitter, and the account is banned, twitter’s system does not remove it from the following count of others.”

Conceivably you could create many accounts have them all follow one account and let them get banned, without fear of it being a wasted effort.

Why would someone do this?

People tend to follow and gain trust in someone that has a profile with a multitude of followers already.

I don’t suggest someone do this but simply to expose that it CAN be done, nor would I accuse the Obama Campaign of doing this, although “creating” a following is instrumental in a political campaign.

As of this posting Obama has over 149,000 following him but only 144,000 followers on Twitter – so there could have been 5,000 created and then banned “followers”.

9 Responses to “How DID Obama Get All Those Twitter Followers?”

1. rvtwt Says:
   August 4th, 2009 at 1:10 am

   It looks to me like you

2. qasde Says:
   January 20th, 2010 at 4:00 am

   Why would someone do this?

3. vfes Says:
   January 20th, 2010 at 4:01 am

   without fear of it being a wasted effort.

4. zared Says:
   January 20th, 2010 at 4:01 am

   An interesting way to “create” a following was exposed

5. bolpoiu Says:
   January 20th, 2010 at 4:02 am

   of doing this, although “creating” a following is instrumental in a political campaign.

6. molop Says:
   January 20th, 2010 at 4:02 am

   5,000 created and then banned “followers”. omg

7. golopi Says:
   January 20th, 2010 at 4:03 am

   Nothing breeds a following like a following

8. braunseo Says:
   January 20th, 2010 at 4:03 am

   People tend to follow and gain trust in someone that has a profile with a multitude of followers already.

9. reto Says:
   January 20th, 2010 at 4:04 am

   account is banned, twitte

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