How many Twitter followers does your biggest competitor have?

How many Twitter followers does your biggest competitor have?

Are they faking it copyIf they have oodles more than you, but you’re quite happy with the job you’re doing, then maybe their followers aren’t quite the Holy Grail you’ve assumed…

Websites such as www.fiverr.com can be great for getting the odd job done at a great price – $5, since you asked so nicely – but they also offer things like 1,000 Twitter followers for $5. If you go for deals like this, make no mistake, these followers WILL NOT be interested in you, they’re unlikely to even be real people!

Once you buy these fake followers, it  becomes difficult to determine your numbers. For example, if you want to track what percentage of your followers retweet your tweets or reply to direct messages, your fake followers really throw a spanner in the works.

Also, what’s the point? If you re-visit your objectives for your social media campaign, does it say something along the lines of “Maximise Twitter Followers even if there is zero chance of them ever buying my product” ? If it does, then please accept my apology and pop along to Fiverr immediately. If it doesn’t then stay strong and continue as you were, or maybe enlist the help of a social media trainer to see if you can learn some new strategies for building your followers.

I’m based in Bedfordshire and offer one to one training sessions, but if you’re too far away from me, I belong to a network of social media managers and may well be able to recommend someone, so please ask.

By the way, if you’re curious about the number of Twitter followers your competitors have, go and check them out on Social Baker’s Fake Followers tool. It’s an eye opener!

 

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