Sorry for the late reply.

There are a few aspect to doing this and not landing yourself on the ban list with Twitter.

Firstly I have had my account banned twice on twitter. The first time was not long after this post and it was my own fault. The second time I am not sure why.

When it was my fault, it came down to the fact that I was following people to the limit of what I could, and then going back to the oldest ones i followed and unfollowing them. It seems Twitter does have limits, and if you push them to often you get banned. In saying this though my account was out of action for 2 or 3 days, but when it came back end up gaining a lot of extra followers. I wouldnt suggest trying that though.

Basically look at building the following as a long term thing add people every day just spend 15 – 30 minutes and add 40-50 new people to your list. And start conversations with them. Most people will not really see who is new in the followers many people dont look, however if you are talking to them, they are more likely to see you and if you are of interest they will follow you as well.

Provide Quality, and you will probably find that things will grow.

Thank-you for your comment. What you are saying here is exactly the sentiment that i would like to see shared by many. My initial idea behind making this post was more as a test to see what sort of interest you could attract from the idea of people getting more twitter followers. Now i maybe did not use something as blatant as many use, and such as gain thousands of followers. At the end of the day i think i probably did get the response that i expected, only a fairly average click through rate on the link.

This post initially was an experiment to see if the potential headline for it would create interest to start. However it become actually creating a post that did give some actual information that people could use. I can now understand though why people push the same link about getting more followers so much as it really is not the golden headline that will get all the clicks.

What I have really enjoyed with Twitter is gaining the expertise of thousands of friends. Some I know better than others and we joke a lot. All in all some of us have become close twiends and are there to help each other out whether it be charity or business. Education and help abounds. All you have to do is ask and it will come. Just follow the recommendations and you can’t go wrong.