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Should You Buy Twitter Followers For Your Account?

I was reading an article earlier today about buying Twitter followers and it doesn’t surprise me at all that such a feature would exist. However, I was highly surprised at how much it costs- anywhere from $700 for 4,000 followers to $500 for 10,000 followers or more and all ranges in between. Both on the high end and the slightly more affordable options, it all seems crazy to me.

The first reason I have for thinking buying Twitter followers was crazy is that I had no trouble at all getting my followers and after a few months on the social media site, I had over 20,000 followers completely legitimately. Is this to say I could have charged thousands of dollars to do exactly what I had done naturally as a novice? Perhaps I’m in the wrong line of work!

The second reason I thought the practice strange was that I cannot see the benefit of followers that you had to purchase when it comes to quality of the follows. If you are a business trying to build traffic to your site, products or services, how would it benefit you to have spam/bot followers who were bought and not at all interested in your business?

So I read a little more into this to try to figure out why people would want to do this. It turns out there are two big reasons certain types of Twitter users find it useful:

1. Clout – making your account appear as if it already has a lot of loyal followers so as to encourage other people to follow you.

2. Marketing – as a marketing tactic to try to spam to as many people as possible.

I’ve heard people say this is neither morally or ethnically wrong in the business sense and perhaps they’re right but I still think it’s a personal call. I know a great deal of Twitter users- myself included- who dislike the spam, robots and automated Twittering. If you’re too lazy or too busy to communicate every now and then in 140 characters or less, it’s likely you won’t have time for me so why should I follow you?

On a site like Twitter, this can be instant death to any profile that gets caught using these types of tactics. No one is going to want to follow you, converse with you and most definitely not visit your links if they think you built your account by purchasing a bunch of followers. While it’s just my two cents, as someone who has found great success with Twitter, I say no, you shouldn’t buy Twitter followers.

Lisa Mason is a freelance writer with a specialty in Internet content and SEO articles and the author of How to Earn a Living Writing for the Internet as well as two poetry anthologies and a how-to poetry book. She has written thousands of articles, hundreds of eBooks and thousands of website pages and related content.

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Should You Buy Twitter Followers For Your Account