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Winning won’t stop on messaoud.info. Today is Friday, and Friday is the day I announce the weekly winning RSS subscriber. This week, the prize is 1000 ECs, and the winner is : niceb…..y@gmail.com. Congrats!! I will send an email to the winner right now, and ask for the prize to be claimed. If claimed Monday or sooner, I will immediately transfer the 1000 ECs. If not, I will email the second in the list, and so on.

On another note, you may have noticed that I recently added a twitter counter, from twittercounter.com. It shows the number of your twitter followers (almost) real time. I say almost because as I write these lines, the counter shows 88, although twitter says I have 92 followers. 2 weeks ago, I had ONE follower. Yeah right, one! Here is the graph that shows the evolution over the last week (click to enlarge) :

What I did is pretty (I mean really, seriously, very very) easy and everyone can  start having more followers in twitter immediately. When I started the experiment, I received the first email notifying me of a new follower in the next 3 minutes!! It can take longer, but it will be nothing but quick.

Enough talking already. The trick is : You follow, you get followed. This is a general ststement. It is very true. Start following people, they will follow you. A big pourcentage will. But if you just starting following anyone on twitter, you may not get quick returns, and the rate will be fairly low. The thing here is to target people who will be interested by what you’re doing, and will more likely follow you if you do. So if you’re to start doing this, start by following those who follow the big names in your niche. If you are in MMO, Affiliate Marketing or something similar, follow the followers of ProBlogger, John Chow, Shoemoney. These people will follow you back. And they are those you want to follow anyway, since you have the same field of interest. The more you follow, the more you get followed, and you will also get a wider list of people you can socialize with, which brings you more exposure and increases your blog’s profitability. I personnally add 10 to 20 people daily to the list of those I follow and I get 7 to 8 new followers per day. I chose to go slowly because I think it’s better for interaction. You can choose to go faster and add 100 people to your list daily, but I don’t recommend it.

I would love to hear how it works out with you. If you choose to give it a try, please feel free to share your experience with us. If you have other tips, I’d love to hear them.