Why Pay Money to get 16,000 Followers?

by admin on April 14, 2009

FollowersI’ve been a Twitter user for may be a year or so, when I opened an account with the handle JavaChief. But I never paid much attention to it, and let it languish. Every once in a while someone would follow me, and over a period of many months the account accumulated nearly 100 followers. I thought that was cool, yet odd. Especially after observing the account more closely, and I saw that the numbers were fluctuating. One day I had 85 followers, then 90, then 95. A few days later the follower count dropped back to the high 80s.

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I’m not going to build a business case for doing this, I’m sure you can conjure up all sorts of reasons why you might want to automatically inject content into your Twitter feed. I’m just going to show you how to do it. First thing you need to know is that in order to inject content into your Twitter feed, the content has to be contained in a valid RSS or Atom feed. So, for example you could inject new posts from your blog by injecting it’s feed into your Twitter feed.

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