JC - Technology and Stuff

• i can see my house! http://bit.ly/bhZyF #
• Recent scenes from the International Space Station - http://bit.ly/jSfaU (The Big Picture) <- definitely worth the click! #
• Reading: Michael Jackson, death by showbusiness - http://bit.ly/2E6lS #
• Reading: Lewis and Clark in murder mystery 200 years after their final expedition - http://bit.ly/J3rjs #
• Can’t follow anyone back at present - Twitter doesn’t like me. So all U new followers - you’ll just have to be patient for a short while #
• Reading: Accountant claims to be guardian of Jacko’s son Blanket - http://bit.ly/HphYa #
• Reading: Bank teller recognizes customer as the same guy who exposed himself to her outside a Starbucks - http://bit.ly/4Gv3Sz #
• Emotions come from somewhere unknown. Just watched the end of ‘kitty’ on The Closer… #
• Reading: Two drunk drivers, same car, different times, same night. Only in Newfoundland - http://bit.ly/w5ybM #
• Reading: Manager fired for sexually harassing a mermaid - http://bit.ly/3zceC6 <- fishy tale #
• Farrah Fawcett & Jenny Agutter together in Logan’s Run - http://bit.ly/eMrAp (YouTube) <- it doesn’t get any better than this! #
• It’s 1964 and the ‘Thunderbirds are go’ in Supermarionation! http://bit.ly/jNA9T (Youtube) <- brings back so many memories! #
• Big shout out for @BillWixey today. Please support him in his fight… http://blog.billwixey.com #
• #QOTD: Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it #
• #Followfriday @Blue43 <- crying cos she got left out of the mix - what can I say? …. Just do it! #
• ok - i think i caught up a little there - now to have the real day. WoW such a hectic couple of days… #
• #Followfriday @LorenaHeletea @WineGuyMike @mbowman3807 @americandream09 @McLaren_Fan <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @AmyLoria @ColfaxChick @MFLOWERS1965 @imbeeyo @centerpet @Fredgarrett <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @aileen2u2 @HypnoBear @m2hansen @dmf71 @WendyTX <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @hugh_white @ucla4me @SampaDee @jasonkamb @JRTabula @Lenswithlove <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @bobby_todd @DondiScumaci @TimBonds @oscar_sandoval @jamarie @Carry41 <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @ComfyPaws @C_Eroshevich @LarryLNichols @changeseeker @babs1959 @Evilgenius333 <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @Rebecca_Cox @Chimera919 @TheBarRag @Softcrush @Serene_Balance @Bucky_Diggs <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @dhskee @AvantiDriving @bflosigngirl @k6o @cbai @sbrondum <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @michbennett @TeddyTowncrier @geoffc11 @sarahndipitous @Nachhi @sczepanski <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @teamqivana @ElyssaD @curious1966 @penguinana_bot @Lou2204 @lattegirltoo <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @Dalewild @mlomb @letsdance_08 @efgfca @aileen2u2 @BRD420army <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• #Followfriday @projct @bjflanagan @USN_retired @lattegirltoo @bornagambler @BillWixey <- what do you mean it’s Saturday? Just do it! #
• Michael Jackson was simply the best entertainer ever. Remember it’s the 2nd star 2 the right & straight on til morning. Rest in peace #
• If U entr this world knowng UR lovd & U leave this world knowng the same, then everythng that happens in betwn can B dealt with <-M.Jackson #
• Good morning one and all. Today is another #Followfriday. The question is whether Twitter will live up to its service. I’ll find out later #
• Reading: Stoned wallabies create opium crop circles - http://bit.ly/3CM9oE <- you gotta love this one… #
• Zambia’s President Rupiah Banda pee-ved after monkey urinates on his jacket - http://bit.ly/VSrpv #
• Hopefully i can lighten the mood slightly with a few off-beat stories… #
• Reading: Chips And Dip - Frito-Lay worker agreed on exchange of oral treats http://bit.ly/WDzVD #
• Reading: Is this the most embarrassing mugshot ever? ‘Drug dealer’ arrested halfway through visit to barber’s - http://bit.ly/StioI #
• Reading: Swedish cops bare all for undercover operation - http://bit.ly/2Ixfc #
• As a teen of the 70s I am saddend by the loss of a pin-up & a pop icon both on the same day. Life is at best a short sojourn through reality #
• Today is another perfect storm similar to the day Princess Diana died closely followed by Mother Teresa. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett #
• k- another day in the ‘office’ - tonight i will catch up with all this twitter stuff & post some news stories… later tweeps… #
• #QOTD: Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand #
• Oh well, another day dawns & Twitter follows are still messed up. They better get it sorted quick or ppl will be leaving… #
• Is Twitter working yet? Well, kinda sorta… #
• k tweeps it’s off 4 a beverage while i wait 4 Twitter 2 get its house in order once more… Remember: Life sucks only as much as U let it #
• #QOTD2: Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes, that way you are a mile away AND you have their SHOES #
• Twitter says it will be another 6hrs before everything is back to normal… i guess that leaves time for a beer or 3 #
• Twitter is well busted - no unfollows or new follows - looks like it works - but it doesn’t…. going 2B an interesting day… #
• Well it looks like following on Twitter is messed up today. Can follow but when i refresh, still hasn’t followed… Hmmm, what to do? #
• #QOTD: Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds #
• It’s Tuesday evening & quiz night once more @ #3LionsPub Redmond 7pm. Be there! You will have fun or else #
• Reading: Air France crash: ‘black box signals located’ - http://bit.ly/usDl4 #
• Reading: Dr Who’s David Tenant joins other 10 Time Lords for one-off show - http://bit.ly/303mn #
• Reading: Farrah Fawcett to marry Ryan O’Neal ‘on death bed’ - http://bit.ly/Tc56c #
• #QOTD: He who fights 2 long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; & if U gaze 2 long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into U #
• Remind me: What is the price of fame? …oh yes, i remember now - more than i’ll ever earn #
• Reading: Police use Tasers on suspects, themselves, sheep & pets - http://bit.ly/PLW1I <- ‘Just trying it out, Guv’ #
• Reading: Japan embraces shotgun weddings - http://bit.ly/enGrs #
• What do you think? Youth Taking Action: A 15 Year Old Invents the Future - http://bit.ly/iN3yL #
• Reading: Air Canada to permit pets as hand luggage - http://bit.ly/fKRKy <- are they barking mad? #
• #QOTD: Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. #
• A great afternoon. 6 wineries visited. lots of Cabs, Merlots, Shiraz & blends tested. It’s always a tough life on Sundays. Back 2 wrk 2morro #
• Reading: Prince William: we must learn lessons from violent street gangs - http://bit.ly/TActH #
• Reading: Bottles of beer will be given to fathers who attend church, in an alternative “blessing” for Father’s Day - http://bit.ly/lvvTq #
• Looks like an ideal day for a few winery visits today #
• Reading: Top Gear: The Stig to be unmasked tonight, says Jeremy Clarkson - http://bit.ly/Pttps #
• Reading: Search for the perfect curry: Indian Railways publishes definitive recipes - http://bit.ly/C1s5m (samples -> http://bit.ly/kCtcx) #
• To all those that have known the tears & joys of fatherhood - a very Happy Father’s Day Little trees from acorns grow… #

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• RT @Mrlandmark: @jcx27 Congrats U have reached 20000 followers! http://bit.ly/IiORl <- looks like i crept past another milestone! #
• Another draw for the #Sounders 1-1 & that’s about as good as it gets. Need to step up their game & get a few more wins under their belt #
• For those of you in Seattle the #Sounders game is on channel 6 - Kong… #
• Half-time in #Sounders game & it’s 1-1. Defensive error by Sounders compensated by a defensive error by NY. Let’s hope 4 a better 2nd half #
• Is there a #Sounders game today? I think so!! Go Sounders. Game coming up in an hour… #
• Back from the weekly grocery shop. Will be catching up on TV & resting today… Sounds wonderful!! #
• Reading: UK Mail threatens to stop delivery after postman ‘attacked’ by kitten - http://bit.ly/3YgSZ6 <- what a pussy! #
• Reading: CBS newsreader Walter Cronkite ‘gravely ill’ - http://bit.ly/UtceO #
• Great Pictures: Dance around the world - http://bit.ly/sCQkK (The Big Picture) #
• #QOTD: Whether or not ppl R comfortable w/how UR living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable w/it. #
• It’s 10pm and the main man - @BillWixey - is anchoring the news on Fox13 Seattle - R U watching? <- give the man a great shoutout! #
• Pictures: The Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis from space - http://bit.ly/giAhk #
• WoW! A whole week at the new contract. Now i’m also a certified Internal Auditor - wonders will never cease. Here’s to a great weekend! #
• #Followfriday @imjstsayin @Raj_R @1KC @Sammi_O @ColfaxChick <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @AmyLoria @CodySperber @toomanyproblems @hugh_white @letsdance_08 @linkmoneydotorg <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @ThePhenomena @curious1966 @McLaren_Fan @JRTabula @bigrobby @pal013 <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @Rebecca_Cox @meaddpop @HypnoBear @allen1949 @Gift_tours @Iblduafollowing <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @DunesOfPanama @ElyssaD @dhskee @AmyLoria @TopDogNews @dmf71 <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @sshieldsjr @attagirl11 @malcolmaaron @ColonelCrockett @JCOblessed <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @OldSkhool @Fredgarrett @aileen2u2 @theelfinpoet @loiswilson88 @IMMAE2009 <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @stillsafe @VittalP @SSentinel @wakooz @Lou2204 @JanetEdin <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @froward1 @TheRaj @Serene_Balance @theGreenJAR @dimensionfour @workformeonline <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @rfmf24×3 @1Dollar4_autism @1sweetwhirl @EMarketingGuru @ExecutiveBudo @azecha <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @lattegirltoo @TheBarRag @letsdance_08 @keeneonlife @headstop @FootballJesus <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @TripsnTravels @sshieldsjr @vastmuscle @joinrick @FootballJesus @BillWixey <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @LorenaHeletea @Mrlandmark @zoyn @Obamapocalypse @EBFREESTUFF @DevizesSolution <- if i say do it - just do it #
• #Followfriday @BrokePimpStyles @derekbarker @theinnermarykay @jimsuccess @jasonkamb @DondiScumaci <- if i say do it - just do it #
• Reading: Happiest day of the year is June 19, according to formula - http://bit.ly/Acahk <- smile, be happy!! #
• North Korea News of the Day: North Korea ‘preparing to launch missile towards Hawaii’ - http://bit.ly/17bGX3 <- possibly on July 4th #
• #QOTD2: There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men think, I know what I’m doing. Just show me somebody naked #
• QOTD: Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet #
• A good morning to one and all. Last day of my first week back in an office. Will catch up with all my tweets tonite. I miss you all… #
• RT @ElyssaD: @jcx27 Here’s my story: “An Ivy League Grad On Welfare” It’s worth reading the comments ppl left below! http://bit.ly/icege #
• Reading: Living near fast food restaurants ‘increases obesity risk’ - http://bit.ly/19GwGA <- how many researchers did that take? #
• Reading: Cocaine found in frozen sharks - http://bit.ly/RSglO #
• Reading: Air France crash: autopsies suggest plane broke up in air - http://bit.ly/cGTfn #
• #QOTD: People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail #
• Want to win a 32GB iPhone 3G S from @theiphoneblog? Re-tweet this and check out http://bit.ly/G16Qt <- seriously, like i’m gonna win #
• k - time 4 bed… a little beer helps the #Sounders result sit better… #
• Reading: Winemaker crushed to death by 200 wine bottles - http://bit.ly/Qh43Z <- sad end to corking career… #
• Reading: Iranians warned not to use sites such as Twitter - http://bit.ly/2tGhpH #
• So annoying - hundreds of spam follows today. Just have 2 wait for Twitter 2 get rid of them over the next couple of days. I hate spammers! #
• And it’s all over as the referee blows the final whistle. #Sounders 3.3 poor result after a great start. Wake up Sigi! #
• Don’t agree with #Sounders coaching decision taking off all the offense. Sigi needs to wake up. Not doing too well recently #
• 87 mins and the crowd stunned into silence as DC score and it’s #Sounders 3.3 #
• 78 mins & it’s a crazy game here and still #Sounders leading 3.2 #
• And #Sounders let it slip for a moment and suddenly it’s 3.2 63 mins #
• Montero earns his money in the 56 min and scores for #Sounders. 3.1 #
• jacqua scores off a deflection after 45 mins and it’s #Sounders 2.1 #
• Fantastic equalizer from #Sounders after 38 mins and it’s 1.1 #
• Okay. I hate to say it but somehow the referee gives DC a goal in the 34th min and it’s #Sounders 0.1 #
• 25 mins gone and amazingly it’s still #Sounders 0.0 #
• 12 mins gone & already a hectic #Sounders game. 4 shots on goal and still 0.0 #
• Keller again wearing orange as #Sounders prepare for kick-off. It worked last week #
• At the stadium to watch the #Sounders. Let’s hope for a win tonight. GO SOUNDERS! #
• It’s a #Sounders mid-week home game tonight @ Qwest Field in Seattle. 7.30pm start. I’ll be there.. will you? #
• absolutely - then in august Barcelona is playing here too #
• Reading: man tries to commit suicide using sword, steering wheel - http://bit.ly/Fdf26 #
• Reading: man pleads guilty in suicide attempt gas pump shooting - http://bit.ly/1NYQBQ #
• Reading: Alcohol goes to the head in six minutes, scientists say - http://bit.ly/zZna7 #
• #QOTD: War does not determine who is right - only who is left. #
• My Twitter profile is worth $6076 http://tweetvalue.com <- anyone want to buy a washed up tweeter? #
• Ok ppl, once more tonight is quiz night, trivia night @ #3LionsPub Redmond, WA starting at 7pm. Come along & have some fun… #
• Pls vote for my friend on Ms Twitterwall (Nederlands): http://bit.ly/qycg6 @Lou2204 #
• Reading: Lindsay Lohan could be questioned over missing jewels - http://bit.ly/1KFBS <- where did she hide them? #
• Reading: Lightning strike kills 6 cows standing in puddle under tree - http://bit.ly/UvEaZ <- sad #
• Reading: Iran ‘to hold election recount’ - http://bit.ly/JOx4Z <- do we believe this? #
• #QOTD: Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things. #
• Pls vote for my friend on Ms Twitterwall (Nederlands): http://bit.ly/qycg6
  @Lou2204 #
• Reading: “The squirrel leapt on my face and on to the conservatory. Then he was off” - http://bit.ly/vgcvn #
• Reading: Naked rugby matched interrupted by fully clothed streaker - http://bit.ly/bkG49 #
• Back from a day at an office - oh no - what have i let myself in for? #
• RT @DebsSweet: Teen Wakes Up 2 Find Snake Staring at Him in bd. NY city teen came face-to-fang w/.. http://tinyurl.com/ng5jqp (via @foxnews) #
• Reading: Teenage girl dug up to be ‘corpse bride’ - http://bit.ly/3Dc3TT #
• Reading: Air France crash: messages sent from plane on rudder problem - http://bit.ly/y95qb #
• #QOTD: There R 2 types of ppl: those who come into a room & say, ‘Well, here I am!’ & those who come in & say, ‘Ah, there U R’ #
• So start a new contract tomorrow, locally in Redmond, WA. Guess it’s going to be a busy week & a change of routine to get used to… #
• I love it when i get DMs from new followers promising me ‘16000 followers in 90 days’ - don’t they know who they’re messing with? #
• Busy morning. Went 2 little Brazilian café I’d seen b4 & had espresso w/pao de queijo. Stocked up w/wine @ Trader Joe’s. Roasted a chicken. #
• ok agents, beat me with a wet branch til i’m senseless. Just sent off a bunch of query letters & some sample chapters. The verdict awaits… #
• Reading: Don’t you hate it when you’re in the shower & run out of shampoo, then a pitbull attacks you? http://bit.ly/G7NfN #
• Reading: Iran’s own election monitoring commission has declared the election results invalid - http://bit.ly/kuzH3 #
• North Korea news article of the day: North Korea claims US could provoke nuclear war - http://bit.ly/T0647 #
• Reading: World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship attracts record crowd - http://bit.ly/18b4gT #
• #QOTD: What’s the use of a good quotation if you can’t change it? (Doctor Who) #

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• Time for bed…’tis been a tiring day & tomorrow looks no easier. my to do list is already writ… Help! #
• Managed to get to #3LionsPub for a quick beer before returning home. It’s been a long day… #
• So there we have it, a better performance by #Sounders but still far too lax at times. Final score a win 2.1 #
• Just a few mins to go now & plenty of scares for #Sounders but still holding on 2.1 #
• 15 mins to go & #Sounders getting a little lazy & sloppy. Still leading 2.1 #
• And Montero evens the game up by giving San Jose the ball to score. 67 mins #Sounders 2.1 #
• Freddy Montero tucks it in the net. 58 mins gone & it’s 2.0 #Sounders #
• 10 mins gone in the 2nd half & #Sounders still putting pressure on. Still leading 1.0 #
• So, halftime @ this way too stressful #Sounders game & it ends 1.0 #
• Ljungberg scores after 41 mins. Great goal #Sounders 1.0 #
• This #Sounders game is just too stressful with only 10 mins of the 1st half left. Still 0.0 #
• Halfway through the first half & it’s all #Sounders but still 0.0 The atmosphere is electric #
• 10 mins gone & a good positive start from #Sounders. Still 0.0 #
• And in a change from normal, goalkeeper Keller wearing orange. Hope this is a good omen. #Sounders starting from usual south end… #
• Just a few mins to go now til #Sounders game gets underway. Crowd being introduced to team. It’s a very loud stadium tonight. #
• At the #Sounders game @ Qwest Field waiting 4 kick-off. Crowd slowly filling. It’s going 2B a fun evening! #
• ok - ’tis time to get my #Sounders groove on & get to downtown Seattle. Keeping my fingers crossed 4 a good result today #
• Calling all Seatllites: Read @BillWixey ’s (Fox 13 Anchor) blog & encourage him through these tough times - http://blog.billwixey.com/ #
• RT @lorenaheletea Most Important when Interacting on Twitter short vid by @lorenaheletea http://bit.ly/SxYRp <- excellent video - pls watch #
• And The Beat Goes On (The Whispers) - http://bit.ly/NgVmA (YouTube) <- grooving past 18k… #
• http://twitpic.com/7baso - The search for the bay leaves #
• Relaxing after eating spaghetti w/homemade bolognaise sauce… Hmmm, I wonder where the bay leaves went? #
• Want to build your Twitter following? Read my blog that details just how I did it - http://bit.ly/144s8N <- no steroids required! #
• Reading: Lightning bolt cooks man at BBQ. Sausages uninjured - http://bit.ly/zcwky #
• Reading: Topless Mona Lisa picture reveals lost art of the 16th Century - http://bit.ly/oyEV0 #
• Reading: Dead frogs litter highway after accident - http://bit.ly/18MNvh (w/picture) #
• 50 retweets for only $5 or even for free. ad. http://revtwt.com/170814 #
• Reading: World’s most expensive soccer player has night in Paris (Hilton) - http://bit.ly/sr0KT <- match commentary only available in pics! #
• Reading: Head on crash between SUV & light aircraft (no deaths) - http://bit.ly/aFXDT <- w/scary inferno picture #
• As holiday season approaches & I head off to do the grocery shopping: 7 Ways to Annoy a Flight Attendant - http://bit.ly/Gjt7e #
• So ppl, it’s another Saturday & a home game for the #Sounders, coming off a loss from last week. Let’s hope they play better today… #
• Reading: Air France crash: ‘bodies hold clues to what happened’ - http://bit.ly/lvVfu #
• Reading: Rare footage of Queen as a teenager and young woman released by BBC archives - http://bit.ly/8a8KV #
• #QOTD: The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. #
• For those of U that R on Facebook & didn’t know - U can now get a username as in http://facebook.com/&lt;yourname&gt; <- Go and register #
• Got myself a username on Facebook - Now I’m jcx27 on both Twitter & Facebook. YaY! #
• Brand new web series, LOVE POP TRASH, launched. Catch Eps. 1 and 2 of this hormonal comedy ad. http://revtwt.com/168426 #
• Done watching ‘The Closer’ marathon… Now for series 5 #
• Hilarious: Microwaving a cellphone produces an alien - http://bit.ly/xyjoC
  (YouTube) #
• Some ppl Beer Bottle dominos http://bit.ly/76M4m
  (YouTube) #
• RT @moniemouse: I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks. <- LoL #
• Reading: UN imposes new sanctions on North Korea - http://bit.ly/F82fh <- slaps hands & says ‘naughty boys’ (should B real effective!) #
• Only in Texas: Teen with 47 IQ gets 100 years in sex abuse case - http://bit.ly/lOfbB #
• Today’s Australian News: Study finds that Ms Average has sexier body than Playboy bunny - http://bit.ly/LGM1s <- who pays these ppl? #
• Share stocks, charts, data on twitter, stocktwits, facebook, myspace & more. Quoqu : Find data. Share it. ad. http://revtwt.com/166583 #
• Today is my last day weekday filled w/daytime tweets as i start a new on-site contract on Monday Next week: same content, different hrs #
• Reading: Woman to cops: I don’t know that naked man in my car - http://bit.ly/Zrzsl <- it’s not what you think! #
• Reading: Florida fisherman hooks 8-foot missile, brings it to shore - http://bit.ly/gtX6N #
• How other countries do it: Iran’s 2009 Presidential Election - http://bit.ly/BqBV6 (The Big Picture) <- amazing pictures #
• Reading: Dead passenger goes unnoticed on London bus for six hours - http://bit.ly/CVnd6 <- room on top 4 one more #
• Reading: 14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite - http://bit.ly/dxHF0 #
• Q: Why don’t I reply to DMs? ‘Cos I get a few hundred every day, 99% unsolicited. If you need to DM me, @jcx27 me first #
• #Followfriday @jimsuccess @Evilgenius333 @toomanyproblems @JRTabula @sparrowstudio @seventy5 @dabreakradio <- just do it! #
• #Followfriday @mlomb @lazyPeaches @RoccoRPB @TweetingSteve @McLaren_Fan @1sweetwhirl @iLobbyist <- just do it! #
• #Followfriday @KINGDAVID251 @BrokePimpStyles @babs1959 @sueokieffe @BrightMoments @UFO_guy <- just do it! #
• #Followfriday @FrankMillar @jrnygirl @ElyssaD @lexy315 @Pepper_10 @curious1966 <- just do it! #
• #Followfriday @donshep @ClaudiaGlaser @tamzcat @sshieldsjr @MMFShortSales @brianstroup <- just do it! #
• #Followfriday @a02toyota @Rebecca_Reece @mnsteve @artfanatic411 @arbonneteam @GPadvocate <- just do it! #
• #Followfriday @Peachyc76 @Obamapocalypse @earthXplorer @Mrlandmark @cafelatte26 <- just do it! #
• #Followfriday @letsdance_08 @mlomb @HometownTimes @curious1966 @tweeteradder2 @SweetMarti <- just do it! #
• #Followfriday @leighmichele @jasonkamb @zoyn @mattwadsworth @arnied @efgfca <- just do it! #
• #Followfriday @BBardot @KaraKennedy @cheerfulshe @Evilgenius333 @froward1 @Lou2204 <- just do it! #
• #QOTD: A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. #
• Watching - Rowan Atkinson plays an Indian waiter that takes orders from 9 drunk ppl - http://bit.ly/gEmi2 (YouTube) <- not PC! #
• North Korea news of the day: Life in North Korea’s Gulags - http://bit.ly/gwoTs <- be very thankful #
• did you read about my journey to 16k: 16,000 Followers in 90 Days without steroids http://bit.ly/4dh2g #
• Need cheap, quality printing? Business cards, flyers, brochures and more at low prices! Ship anywhere! ad. http://revtwt.com/162585 #
• Lazarus Syndrome: man comes back to life 30 minutes after dying - http://bit.ly/6u1yO <- unfortunately he then died again #
• Reading: Air France plane broke up over ‘number of minutes’ - http://bit.ly/lbZEw #
• Q: If you are a twitter addict, is that an untweetable disease? #
• Watching: Rowan Atkinson in 3 monologues ruining a wedding - http://bit.ly/11qlQ0 <- hilarious! #
• Reading: US policeman used Taser on 72-year-old woman - http://bit.ly/ZvFK9 #
• Swine flu become a global pandemic - the price of bacon drops to next to nothing… #
• Reading: British couple’s yacht sunk by whale in Caribbean - http://bit.ly/oSqCM #
• Reading: Air France crash: ‘terrorist suspects’ on flight - http://bit.ly/713Po #
• Father’s Day Is Near - Get Your Aisle19 Savings Portal - Get CashBack On Giftcards @ Giftcertificates.com ad. http://revtwt.com/161681 #
• Like to connect with me on Facebook? I’d love to connect with you… Go to my profile and invite me 2B a friend: http://profile.to/johncox #
• #QOTD: Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. #
• Reading: Montana man charged 4 growing “too many pot plants.” Surpringly, “too many pot plants” does not equal “one” http://bit.ly/r3du6 #
• A classic clip from The Young Ones - see if you can spot a young Jennifer Saunders (from Ab Fab)… http://bit.ly/13GKmj (YouTube) #
• Last video of the day - look 4 Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, et al. Just one of the best bits of The Young Ones Ever - http://bit.ly/gMALP #
• Watching: ‘We’re the Weetabix’ - a real breakfast cereal http://bit.ly/pfF1f (YouTube) #
• Reading: Seattle’s confusing parking meters: Pay ’til 6 p.m but get towed at 3pm! - http://bit.ly/15eRjP #
• Reading: 6 Ridiculous Sex Myths (That Are Actually True) - http://bit.ly/xDAmO <- OMG! #
• Extensive list of Hide IP Tools ad. http://revtwt.com/157785 #
• Reading Sir Tom Jones ‘is English’ - http://bit.ly/12MT5B <- oh no, shock, horror! #
• Reading: 2 weeks after daughter’s death Mike Tyson Weds in Las Vegas - http://bit.ly/18Ul5S #
• Reading: Gossip is good for women’s health, scientists claim - http://bit.ly/UdI4a #
• Reading: Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs to live final days in care home - http://bit.ly/1bpdf1 #
• #QOTD: Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. #
• #QOTD: Even sheep should have brains enough not to follow the wolf. #
• Caught up with a ll follows and followers… Normality resumes… #
• For those that have followed me since Sunday, I will follow all back tomorrow. Still offline. #
• Today & tomorrow sparse of tweets as I work on some personal projects. All good. Be back in the craziness on Wednesday. Have fun #
• #QOTD: The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come #

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• Time 4 bed: B4 you go read all about my journey to 16k: 16,000 Followers in 90 Days without steroids http://bit.ly/4dh2g #
• Free 3 Day 2 Night Hotel Voucher w/ Your Free Aisle19 Savings Portal ad. http://revtwt.com/143771 #
• Another disappointing performance from the #Sounders and they lose the game to Chivas 0.1 maybe time 4 a new coach! #
• Half time @ #Sounders game & they are losing 0.1 to Chivas. Playing well but can’t put it away #
• #3LionsPub overflowing & everyone ready 4 the #Sounders game to start… #
• #3LionsPub full already in anticipation for the #Sounders game. Only 2.5 hrs to go! #
• You can do it too! - Read all about my journey to 16k: 16,000 Followers in 90 Days without steroids http://bit.ly/4dh2g #
• Time 2 get ready 2 head to #3LionsPub to watch the #Sounders game later. Eastside Massive Cheeky Boy Chapter will be fully represented! #
• Reading: Air France plane: full story of the horror on board Flight 446 - http://bit.ly/GSy2t #
• Reading: Boy chosen by Dalai Lama now sports baggy trousers & long hair - http://bit.ly/19g4up #
• Reading: 41 yo woman with .30 Blood Alcohol Content strips down 2 slip & slide w/neighbor kids - http://bit.ly/KWjd7 #
• Reading: Woman used witchcraft to fly naked in a basket to kill relative - http://bit.ly/UXdqN #
• Part Two - Read all about my journey to 16k: 16,000 Followers in 90 Days without steroids http://bit.ly/4dh2g <- NEW #
• Reading: Wildlife photographer describes how he came face 2 face with a kermode, or spirit bear - http://bit.ly/CwOfN <- w/picture #
• Reading: Susan Boyle ‘lined up for Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s anniversary’ - http://bit.ly/HD5Yr #
• Reminder 4 tonight’s #Sounders game v Chivas being shown live @ #3LionsPub Redmond, WA. Game starts @ 7:30pm - get there early 4 a table! #
• Reading: Crazy Britain - Cyclist speed camera launched on 10mph seafront prom - http://bit.ly/15eB4a <- whatever next? #
• Reading: Airbus issues warning 2 pilots after Air France crash - http://bit.ly/ZE93E || 24 system failure alerts sent - http://bit.ly/lmMyT #
• Reading: British PM’s wife Sarah Brown becomes surprise Twitter hit as husband struggles for survival - http://bit.ly/QWzkn #
• #QOTD: Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That’s what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. #
• 3 Day 2 Night Vacation Getaway Voucher w/ Free Aisle19 Savings Portal ad. http://revtwt.com/140832 #
• Read all about my journey to 16k: 16,000 Followers in 90 Days without steroids (Part One) http://bit.ly/2tcjd <- part two later today! #
• k - time to take a little ‘me’ time. loved talking 2 U all today. Tks for sending me over the 16k mark & have a WONDERIFEROUS evening #
• msg 2 all those that send me DMs - sorry but i get so many spam DMs that i can rarely spot the real ones. pls @jcx27 me first #
• Pictures: Remembering Tiananmen, 20 years later - http://bit.ly/sSAfr (The Big Picture) #
• RT: YaY! I hit my 16,000 followers - read all about it: 16,000 Followers in 90 Days without steroids (Part One) http://bit.ly/2tcjd #
• i have upset the twitter gods & can’t follow anyone back right now #
• Off out for a few hours - be back later… now don’t be talking behind my back #
• WoW! I’ve been referenced in a heavy hitting Twitter blog (#8 on the list) - http://bit.ly/yiDGw <- it’s gonna be a glorious weekend! #
• Friday Entertainment - They don’t make movie shorts like this any more - http://bit.ly/13TnEK (YouTube) <- must have taken hours! #
• Shoutout 4 Puget Sound Corporate Soccer Challenge 4 charity - take a look: http://bit.ly/nTJLd - #Seattle #Sounders #3LionsPub #
• YaY! I hit my 16,000 followers - read all about it: 16,000 Followers in 90 Days without steroids (Part One) http://bit.ly/2tcjd #
• Reading: Beef and pork proteins being injected into restaurant chicken meals - http://bit.ly/14cgwf #
• Reading: Botox allows paralysed man to walk again after 20 years - http://bit.ly/10RvUA #
• #Followfriday @Serene_Balance @moriesbel @GAYTWOGETHER @perfectpositive @brandisco <- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #Followfriday @LawrenceWilson @rebaenrose @mlomb @ICMovies @cruiseships1 @tinywook <- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #Followfriday @chocolatetweets @BoomerWoman @ginthegin @skylimit2 @ComfyPaws @lunanola <- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #Followfriday @schen7020 @vicissitudes2 @micsolis @BtSEO @EustaceChisholm @Mishon8 <- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #Followfriday @tamzcat @nbk1 @attagirl11 @JackBeddall @artimentary @ThePhenomena <- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #Followfriday @TravisVincent @ExpresYourself @BrokePimpStyles @BobWarren @AmericanWomannn @RegularRon<- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #Followfriday @CigarFox @paul_steele @sargedunn1 @sharlr @Pepper_10 @Peachyc76 <- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #Followfriday @coachparadise @Sammi_O @GetHiredGuru @CEOTransformer @jasonkamb @arbonneteam<- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #Followfriday @HometownTimes @hiannie @Rebecca_Reece @ZedFred @Djalfy @artfanatic411 <- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #Followfriday @maritorres @libertygirl3 @MODELCHICK @andrewsally @aileen2u2 @SimplyDee1 <- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #Followfriday @DondiScumaci @DreamWildly @efgfca @StephanieALloyd @SocialMediaMo @curious1966 <- it’ll be your loss if you don’t! #
• #QOTD: The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it #
• It’s official - today set new records for temperatures in Seattle. 91F here in Redmond, WA What a scorcher! #
• Reading: Women as un-choosy as men when they go ‘on the pull’ - http://bit.ly/1adi2I <- shock, horror! #
• Reading: The last 15 minutes of Flight AF447 - http://bit.ly/NQhRT #
• Reading: Horse racing trainer rides zebra to Dorset pub - http://bit.ly/1aplq #
• Reading: Susan Boyle to be visited daily in Priory by pet cat Pebbles - http://bit.ly/LCZ0I #
• I dare you not to laugh… http://bit.ly/YaLRP (YouTube) #
• New desk built. Just need to get everything back in place now. Completely knackered. That was hard work! Must B time 4 lunch! #
• Need something designed? Start a free design contest at ad. http://revtwt.com/cpt/484 #
• Breaking News: Kung Fu’s David Carradine found dead in wardrobe of Bangkok hotel - http://bit.ly/L4eTj #
• Today I strip down my office space & rebuild it w/a new desk. Also means my office PC network will be offline 4 a few hrs. How will i cope? #
• Reading: Dragonfly crop circle appears in England - http://bit.ly/19gj8o (w/picture) #
• Reading: Air France pilots battled for 15 minutes to save doomed flight AF 447 - http://bit.ly/Ki94A #
• #QOTD: The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. #
• Final story of the day: Gay penguins rear a chick in German zoo - http://bit.ly/liOJy #
• Download the twitter traffic blueprint. Free report with hands-on info how to boost your profile! ad. http://revtwt.com/133338 #
• Fascinating: Reclusive J.D. Salinger emerges - via lawsuit - to stop copycat book being published: http://bit.ly/ttYL2 #
• Breaking North Korea News: NK begins assembling long range rocket in attempt 2 further map local seabed - http://bit.ly/y03VJ #
• Brought 2 U from Garden Grove, CA - Vietnamese Coffee Shop (It’s service w/a smile, bikini & high heels) http://bit.ly/lpTdZ (w/video) #
• Reading: Town gets 70 yo nude visitor- Lack of clothing has disturbed some residents & caused at least 1 girl to cry: http://bit.ly/5EXSI #
• Reading: British Telecom offering 20 Mbps broadband for free - http://bit.ly/clUx1 #
• Reading: Air France crash: plane may have broken up in mid-air - http://bit.ly/O4a9W #
• i always forget that when my ‘follows’ decrease it’s normally twitter banning the spammer accounts - hooray for that! #
• Got the new ‘cupcake’ on my T-Mobile G1 phone - I think i like it! (will blog about it in a few days once i’ve explored it a little #
• RT @Sammi_O: A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. (Earl Wilson) #
• Heart-wrenching pictures of Cyclone Aila - http://bit.ly/xPf5A (The Big Picture) #
• RT: some twitart… __̴ı̴̴̡̡̡ Ì¡ÍŒlÌ¡Ì¡Ì¡ Ì¡ÍŒlÌ¡*Ì¡Ì¡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ Ì¡Ì¡Í¡|̲̲̲͡͡͡ ̲▫̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ̲̲͡▫̲̲͡͡ ̲|Ì¡Ì¡Ì¡ Ì¡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡ Ì¡ÍŒlÌ¡Ì¡Ì¡Ì¡.__ #
• Would U like 2 connect w/me on Facebook? I’d love 2 connect w/U… Go 2 my profile & invite me 2B a friend: http://profile.to/johncox #
• RT @ThePhenomena: dang spammers! <- you got that right. At least Twitter seems 2B aggressively attacking them! #
• Off to Bellevue - be back later tweeps… (in the meantime - laugh amongst yourselves!) Heheheheheheeee!~ #
• Join the RETWEET.com movement to improve TWITTER! Only together can we make a difference ad. http://revtwt.com/131626 #
• Reading: Man busted 4 DUI slips out of handcuffs, pees in police van, bites officer on thumb & kicks him in inner thigh- http://bit.ly/NjYsY #
• Reading: Summer trampoline warnings: don’t drink and bounce - http://bit.ly/1KW3Y1 #
• Jackpot - Double DUI: Husband crashes into tree, wife takes over & promptly crashes into trailer park - http://bit.ly/dCX0c #
• Excellent Pictures: 20 years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square - http://bit.ly/YRIgt #
• Reading: Man rescued after getting leg stuck in road melted by heatwave - http://bit.ly/2zAaf <- Only in England! #
• Sad News: Peter Falk ‘can’t remember’ he played ‘Columbo’ - http://bit.ly/lHrJj #
• RT @Sammi_O: We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails #
• Breaking North Korea news of the day: Kim Jong-il ‘eats live fish’ claims former chef - http://bit.ly/1JhCW #
• Reading: Eminem and Bruno stunt at the MTV Movie Awards ‘was staged’ - http://bit.ly/9DKO8 #
• Cool Pictures: What if celebrities had lived in different times? http://bit.ly/m9JDG #
• Reading: Spanish Queen sets example with $21 Ryanair flight to London - http://bit.ly/Id3A7 #
• Nearly 3,500 people have joined the RETWEET.com movement, thats not b: ad. http://revtwt.com/131163 #
• #QOTD: Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? #
• Another day is done. Another dollar is earned. Another fish is fried. Later tweeps… #
• Trivia night @ 3 Lions Pub complete. Time for a meal… #
• Best and Cheapest Web Hosting Providers of 2009! ad. http://revtwt.com/129585 #
• k - that’s it for today. Off to get ready for Trivia night. Wicked questions prepared! Where? 3 Lions Pub, Redmond, WA @ 7pm as always… #
• Reading: WHO considers move to pandemic phase 6 for H1N1 virus - http://bit.ly/lOg48 #
• Reading: Only in Australia- Scarlet Alliance protest on International Whores Day - http://bit.ly/KRfLF <- didn’t even know this day existed! #
• Reading: It’s no big deal if your next door neighbor’s ammo dump explodes, if he has the proper permits - http://bit.ly/BxGWg #
• Reading: 101 yo woman has smoked more than 171,500 cigarettes since she started @ age seven; “U gotta have some vice..” http://bit.ly/cyuBr #
• Shoutout for the 3 Lions Pub, Redmond, WA trivia quiz night 2nite @ 7pm - Have a cooling beer, win some prizes, take home a t-shirt… #
• Reading: Hawaiian calls 911 because McDonalds left orange juice out of his drive through meal - http://bit.ly/eJXhG <- aloha & aloha #
• Reading: 16-year-old cracks math puzzle that has stumped experts for more than 300 years - http://bit.ly/13vZOl #
• Is purchasing a home still a good investment? ad. http://revtwt.com/128959 #
• My Twitter profile is worth $4933 http://tweetvalue.com <- i can nearly afford to remortgage myself! #
• RT @DondiScumaci: Public Service Announcement: Auto DM’s are annoying. <- wholeheartedly agree with this!!! #
• RT @Djalfy: http://twitpic.com/6ggjl << Expression of what bad music makes me do! Fah Realz! <- U gotta luv this! #
• RT @curious1966: peeping my pants with laughter here LOL <- sometimes mis-types are even funnier than the intended! #
• Reading: Seattle Police Zombie Response Squad finally called into action when zombie enters convenience store - http://bit.ly/c1aVn #
• Reading: Dog kills cat; cat owner kills dog; dog owner shoots cat owner & 8yo girl; dog owner shoots 2 sheriff’s deps http://bit.ly/gUU8r #
• Reading: Unseen photo of Jane Fonda as Barbarella revealed - http://bit.ly/JkveT <- a classic Sci-Fi movie indeed #
• Reading: Susan Boyle: makers of Britain’s Got Talent facing questions over her care - http://bit.ly/17i1l5 #
• Like to connect with me on Facebook? I’d love to connect with you… Go to my profile and invite me 2B a friend: http://profile.to/johncox #
• Reading: Penguin poo visible from space - http://bit.ly/8FqL2 <- cool! #
• Reading: Major breaking news (NOT!) - Kim Jong-il chooses third son as his successor - http://bit.ly/ZwIks <- world gasps! #
• #QOTD: It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them #
• Networkers: Here’s a way to eliminate stacks of biz cards and create a self-building address book. ad. http://revtwt.com/128410 #
• Reading: amazing pictures - Sulfur mining in Kawah Ijen - http://bit.ly/18dbJE (The Big Picture) #
• Watched ‘Up’ at the movies today. Not a movie for kids - much better for adults. Recommended A+ <- go watch!!! #
• Back from the toils of a long and busy day. Time to catch up w/email & Twitter & stuff #
• Place For Friends And Dating (USER ONLINE 18.254.452) Sign Up Now It’s Free http://www.mywolfbook.com ad. http://revtwt.com/cpt/428 #
• Off out 2 take my middle daughter Grace 2 the airport. Time 4 her 2 travel back 2 England. It’s her 18th birthday 2morro & she’s excited! #
• Reading: Pizza delivery man saves woman from captor - http://bit.ly/tEzoN (never order pizza if U have a hostage @ home!) #
• Reading: Susan Boyle set to make millions after Britain’s Got Talent - http://bit.ly/11rIy0 #
• Reading: Obituary - Danny La Rue - http://bit.ly/5M9h0 #
• Looks like Twitter has got itself together again. My numbers look more or less correct today. Maintenance issues i’m guessing! #
• Many thks 2 all who have left me nice msgs the past few days while i’ve been dashing around. they R well received. UR all wonderful tweeple! #
• #QOTD: Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up #
• ok - another busy day today - hopefully I’ll be back to normality later this week. In the meantime, I’ll post & communicate best as i can! #
• Safely home after a mammoth 1100 mile, 17 hour round trip 2 Montana. What was I thinking? No more 2 say except I’m knackered & going 2 bed #
• Coming up to Spokane. Only another 4.5 hrs til we get home. It’s been a very long day #
• Off to Montana for the day one more time. No tweets for Twitterville today. Back tomorrow. Take care one and all… #
• #QOTD: The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it #

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In the last article I wrote about the approach to getting 16,000 Twitter followers. In this article I’m going to cover some of the more detailed approaches and ‘how to do it’.

Step 5: Twitter maintenance - as I mentioned last time, every day you need to perform Twitter maintenance. So what exactly is Twitter maintenance? Well, simply put it’s unfollowing all the people who haven’t followed you back and following all the people who followed you who you weren’t already following (within limits - see below). Then having done that, it’s adding some more follows. And on it goes. What’s the easiest way to do this? I’ve tried two different methods and they both have their advantages and disadvantages.

Method 1: The first method is the ‘go through your emails’ approach. Hopefully you have turned on email notification for when you get new followers. If you haven’t, go ahead and do this now (it’s under Settings and Notices). Then set up some kind of filter in your email that sends all email from Twitter to a specific folder. This will make it easier for you to process all the emails you’re going to get every day (and it will be a lot!). Every few hours you need to go to your email and open each one and look at its content. The email will be one of two kinds. If it is like below then you are already following the person and there is nothing you need to do to follow them back. If the number of followers they have is less than about 7,000 just delete the email and move on. If the new follow has more than 7,000 follows themselves then keep the email for later processing (discussed later).

If the email you have is similar to the one below then someone has elected to follow you who you are not currently following (see the extra text at the bottom of the email?). If this is the case then click on their Twitter name and you will be taken to their profile page. From here you can click on ‘follow’ and follow them back.

But what about spam people that follow you or people who you followed but shouldn’t have done? Well this is where the information provided in the email is most useful. It contains the number of followers they have and also how many tweets they’ve sent out. Generally speaking if they have sent out less than about 5 tweets they are probably a spammer. Also if they are following 1,000 people and only have 20 follows, look closely at the profile. Most other people are probably genuine. If you get a ‘follow email’ from someone you have followed and they are a spammer or someone you shouldn’t have followed, just click on their Twitter link and ‘unfollow’ them. Simple.

Ok, so what about the emails left in your inbox that had 7,000 or more followers? Well these can become your new ‘seed list’ (But don’t process these until after you’ve unfollowed orphan follows - see below). Click on their profile, click on ‘followers’ and start following some of this user’s followers. The chances are that if they already have 7,000 users then a lot of their followers will also follow you. The guidelines I generally use is if the user has between 7,000 and 10,000 follows then I follow up to 2 pages worth of followers, and if they have more than 10,000 then I follow 3 pages worth. Why? Well I want to try and follow users who are more probably online. The ones at the top of the list are the recent follows. Users with more followers generally grow faster than users with less followers and so there’s more chance that users with more than 10,000 followers have more recently online follows than those with less. You’ll have to find out a method that works for you. Anyway, when you’re done making some new follows, delete the email and move to the next. In this way you should be able to build up a stock of people to follow every day. If that doesn’t give you enough at first (or you need to supplement) then you can simply right click on a user on your feed, open a new browser tab for that user and use the above guideline to follow from your existing stock. If I use this method I discount any user that has less than 1,000 followers and then if they have between 1,000 and 7,000 followers I just follow their first page (20 users). You get the idea.

Method 2: the second method is to not use notification emails from Twitter at all but instead regularly go to your Twitter profile page and click on ‘followers’. There you can see who you are following back.

Simply click on those people who you wish to follow back. Although this may seem like a simpler method than number 1 (it certainly takes less time), it’s not as discerning and as thorough. When you use this method you cannot see how many followers the user has or how many tweets they have sent, you just have to use your own judgment or right click on the user to open up a window to look more closely at them. Also it doesn’t give you any idea of the users who have more than 7,000 followers so you’ll have to use a different method to decide who to follow.

Ok, so you’ve maintained your followers, how about those that you previously decided to follow (from yesterday)? As I mentioned in part one of this article, you’re going to be following 800-1,000 people a day and only 30%-40% are going to be following you back. You need to purge the others. There is no simple way to do this (yes there are programs that claim to do it automatically, but believe me you need to do it manually or else you’ll be unfollowing some people you want to follow even though they don’t follow you back - i.e. some celebrities). You just have to bite the bullet and once a day go to your profile, click on ‘following’ and skip ahead to page 40 or so (or wherever your follows started that you haven’t cleaned up yet). You can tell easily enough, it’ll be the last page where everyone isn’t following you!

Then page by page, going backwards, unfollow (remove) all those people who aren’t following you (they won’t have a ‘Direct Message’ option). This is very boring and can take up to 20-30 minutes. But when you’re done with both steps above (follows and followers), you’re cleaned up ready for the next day’s work.

Don’t add any new follows (the people with 7,000 followers or more) until you’ve done this maintenance!

Ok, enough for today. Part three of the post will cover your brand, earning money, Direct Messagesand linking Twitter to Facebook or your blog.

Enjoy your tweeting!

People join Twitter for a variety of different reasons and this article is not meant to judge anyone in their use of it. No doubt the way I use Twitter goes against many of the twitterverse but I, like everyone else out there, is free to ‘try their own thing’. Isn’t this what social networking services are all about?

Anyway, let’s get down to business…

Why I wanted to get 16,000 followers - I was a happy Twitter user in the ‘old days’ (at about the turn of the year!) and like many many people out there just had a few friends. But sometimes Twitter gets addictive and after a few months of using the service I wondered what it would be like to chat to a few more people on a regular basis. So I followed a few more people and happily continued using Twitter with about 100 people on my list. It was shortly after this that I started to get Direct Messages (DMs) and tweets from people promising me 16,000 followers in only 90 days if I clicked the attached link. I clicked a few of the links and they were all advertising ‘spam’ and pretty soon I started to get a little annoyed with it all. I actually came close to giving up on Twitter at that point. Well, a few other things happened in my life at about that time too, and so I had a little more opportunity to grow my Social Network on other services like Facebook. I wondered to myself whether it was also worth growing my Twitter network too. What the heck? If other people can grow 16,000 followers, why shouldn’t I be able to? And I was determined to grow my followers without resorting to any artificial methods (no steroids for me!). I was going to do it the hard way. Blood, sweat and tears. All in all it has taken me about 2.5 months to get my 16,000. I could have been more aggressive and done it quicker, but I would have lost the richness of the experience and the twitterverse along the way. So, this is the @jcx27 method of getting 16,000 Twitter followers.

Step 1: Building your brand - First things first. If you really want to build followers (and keep them) you have to work out just what your message is going to be. Furthermore, you have to stick to that message. Change it, or go off topic too often and your followers will leave. After all, there’s plenty of interesting people out there as well as you! My strong recommendation is that BEFORE you start building a follower base you start tweeting and discover where your niche is. Write at least 200-300 tweets before you start actively pursuing new followers. Failure to find your brand and style will lead to failure later!

Step 2: Growing your user base - the first 2,000 - Ok, so you’ve written your 250 tweets, you’ve got maybe 50 followers already and you’re ready to hit the big time! Twitter has some rules about how quickly you can build new followers, especially in the early days (and Twitter defines the early days as following up to 2,000 people). You can, if you are crazy enough, follow 1,000 people on each of the first couple of days and then come to a screaming halt on day three when Twitter tells you it won’t allow you to follow anyone else until the number of people following you has caught up. Hmm. Not the best plan of attack! No, take it slowly; follow two to three hundred people every day. Watch who follows you back, perform maintenance (covered in part two of the post) , tweet some more and start to get in the Twitter groove. Remember this isn’t a race, it’s a way to build a solid social network. Eventually you will reach your 2,000 Twitter follow limit and hopefully the number of people you have following you at that time will be close behind. If it’s not, perform some more maintenance and repeat. After a couple of weeks (possibly) you will have your 2,000 followers! Then it’s time for the next phase.

Step 3: The middle years 2,000 - 10,000 - there are thousands and thousands of Twitterers out there that have between 2,000 and 10,000 followers. You need to know this up front going into this phase of your growth. Competition is tough. Unfollows are common. Some days can be depressing! Your target is to grow your followers by somewhere between 250 and 400 a day. Sounds easy? Try again! Getting 250 to 400 followers every day AND KEEPING THEM is hard work. It means you’re going to have to follow somewhere between 800 and a 1,000 people every day in the hope that 30% to 40% of them follow you back. This is where previous efforts spent on brand definition come into play. If you have been tweeting regularly every day and you have 50 or so close twitter followers that interact with you regularly then you stand more chance of success during this phase of growth. Remember, just because you have 2,000 followers (or even 7,000 followers) doesn’t mean people are just going to seek you out and follow you automatically. And there are still Twitter limits to watch out for too. If who you are following gets more than about 10% ahead of your followers count then Twitter will stop you adding more until they even up a little. Also if you try to follow too many people in one day (probably due to the previous) then Twitter will also stop you following for a time. You will find you need to be on Twitter for a lot of the day and slowly add people for this phase to be most effective. And that’s a lot more hard work! Still, eventually you will reach your goal of 10,000 followers and you will be ready to move on to running a mature Twitter account.

Step 4: Maturity and nurturing your followers - When you finally reach 10,000 followers you are overcome with emotion! There’s something about hitting that magic number. I mean, how many other people out there have 10,000 followers you ask yourself? (Quite a lot actually. Probably about 20,000 or so!). Still, you consider yourself one of the elite now. You tweet regularly, you reply to lots of people, you try to remember to retweet other’s good posts and you generally feel on top of your game. But, and here’s the kicker, you’ve still got another 6,000 followers to go. And it’s getting a bit old this routine, isn’t it? It’s a lot of work. Every day you have to add followers, remove people who don’t follow you back ,send out a fistful of tweets, interact with friends, and stay on brand topic. It’s getting a bit like a job! Well, guess what? It IS a job. Welcome to social networking my friend! The funny thing is remember at the beginning when I spoke about those DMs that promised 16,000 followers in 90 days? All those people will never ever get 16,000 followers (and if you look at most of them they actually have less than 1,000 followers). The reason is quite simple. They don’t want the hard work of interacting with their followers. They don’t actually want a social network. They want the easy life. If you have now reached 10,000 followers you know this is not an easy life! Anyway, back to the plot. Once you’re through the 10,000 mark you can be a little more aggressive, if you want, about follow numbers every day. You should also start noticing a bigger number of people that start following you too without you instigating the follow. Numbers talk! You still need to do your maintenance and you still need to keep tweeting though. The other thing that’s easy to forget is that as you are growing followers, a lot of the newbies don’t know much about you. Sure, your first 2,000 loyal followers know all about you. But the last 2,000? They’re probably just those who started following you in the past week! They know nothing about you. You need to spend time introducing yourself to them, letting them know what you do, how you do it. This is how you nurture your followers. Your core followers will forgive you and your new followers will be grateful. Remember, it’s a tough world out there and you don’t want to start losing follows at this stage of the game! Ok, fast forward. Somewhere between 60 and 90 days after you started, if you have followed all the advice, you finally reach your 16,000 followers. HOORAY!!! Life stops? No, life goes on. What’s next? 20,000? 30,000? Only you know the answer to that. For me, I’m undecided. When I first decided to get to my 16,000 it was a challenge. Now it’s a way of life. I love my little twitterverse. I love their conversation and observations. It’s become a two-way relationship.

In part two of this post I will discuss the topics of maintaining, adding and purging followers; What, how and when to post; earning money on Twitter; Direct Messages; Linking Twitter to Facebook and blogs; and a few other hints and tips.

Until then, keep tweeting…