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OK after spending far too long searching for other people who mention “Affiliate Marketing” or similar and looking for real people who are not just spewing out other peoples blogs from an RSS feed I came across twitter.com/afftwitlist.

At the time of writing there were 1123 followers so I thought I would try an experiment – simply follow all of them and see how many follow back. As I see pointless Tweets coming through I will then just stop following those people.

I wouldn’t normally do something like this but as they should all be interesting in Affiliate Marketing I thought it was worth a try.

The @AnswerHeroBlog Twitter account currently has 55 followers and I will let you know what effect this has.

Update

As I went from page to page clicking on the “Follow” button it suddenly stopped working. What i had forgotten about is that there is a limit to the number of people you can follow in relation to the number of followers you have so I will now need to wait until a good number of the people I have followed are following us back or I have removed enough of the bad quality followers to allow me to continue adding more.

Here is the official Twitter explanation of Follow Limits:

I can’t follow people: follow limits

Submitted Nov 24, 2008 by crystal
Why did I hit a limit?

Last year, Twitter imposed reasonable limits to help prevent system and user abuse. (You can read more about that here.) If you hit a Twitter limit, we will tell you by showing an error message in your browser when you try to perform an action. If you’ve hit a limit, it means you’ve exceeded one of these limits:

* 1,000 updates per day
* 1,000 direct messages per day
* 100 API requests per hour
* Follow limit

We do not limit the number of people who can follow you, but we have put limits in place to stop people from aggressively following others. Everyone is allowed to follow 2000 people. After that, follow limits are based on the number of people who are following you. Follow limits cannot be lifted by Twitter, and everyone is subject to follow limits, even high profile and API accounts

We will be holding regular Live Podcasts and if you can see anyone in the window to the left then we are live and you are welcome to chat or call us.

We are using Stickam which is a free video hosting service which allows you to provide real time video and to upload existing videos.

As you use Twitter you see automatic posts from people that have used third party Twitter services such as directories or groups, etc.

After following a few people with SEO interested I noticed the following Tweet from one of them:

I just joined the SEO Twitter Group http://tgr.me/g/seosem so stop by and see us. #seosem

So I clicked on the link and signed up with the SEOSEM group at TwitterGroups.

I then had a browse through the directory and signed up with all of these too:

• affiliates
• affiliatemarketing
• Web Developers

Not sure if there is a way of telling if people now find the @AnswerHeroBlog profile via this or not but if there is I will be sure to tell you all!