A Twiends review for you today, taking a look at the ethics behind what most would call buying facebook fans. Twiends has now added a new feature, essentially the ability to buy fans for your facebook page. Twiends is a web service that offers to help you grow your social network by getting you more twitter followers, facebook fans, or views on your You Tube videos. The premise is simple, earn “seeds” by liking other FB pages, following people on twitter or watching You Tube videos. Spend your “seeds” when people ‘like’ your fanpage, follow you or watch your videos. The attraction is obvious it’s a quick and easy way to build some numbers and grow your social network.
Twiends equals 30 facebook fans in 3 minutes
I popped over to Twiends the other day at the recommendation of my good blogging friend Suresh who recently wrote an article “The Secret of how I got a custom facebook URL in under 15 minutes“. His post inspired me to check out Twiends yet again, though I’d heard of the service a long time ago I had quickly concluded that the quality of twitter followers one might gain from a service such as Twiends would be weak at best. Not being one to gravitate towards the model of buying followers or fans, I ignored Twiends at that time. Using a tool like that to ‘add’ so called targeted followers to your twitter account is not something I recommend, and I can testify that I’ve had great success with twitter without using methods like that. (Read up here about my twitter success without automation).
Just for fun I followed Suresh’s instructions signed up for Twiends and let the free seeds I had go to work on my facebook fan page. The ability to integrate with facebook and add likes to your fan pages is a new feature of Twiends, so I had to give it a go. Within 3 minutes (not an exaggeration) I gained 30 facebook fans, by the end of half an hour and a quick subscription to the Twiends newsletter (you get some free seeds for opting-in), I had another 30 new fans. Suresh’s article was RIGHT, if you are building out a new FB Fanpage this is a foolproof way to grab that important custom URL as soon as possible.
First, Get Seeds
Before getting followers or fans you need to earn seeds, how will you get them..
- Register. Don't register with username and password and get 25 seeds, instead sign-in with your Twitter account to get 15seeds then go to settings>general and fill-in your information to get 40seeds!
- Follow Twitter users, like Facebook pages, watch Youtube videos. First, set your interests and country in order to find users with common interests. choose users with seeds higher than what your are offering to maintain a high ratio of followers to friends.
- Sign-up to newsletter to get extra 50seeds. Wait for voucher code(s) sent to your email.
- Refer people to Twiends and get 25seeds per referral. Tweet your referral-link or place it on your website -As I'm doing here- and passively earn seeds while sleeping :)
- finally, you may also purchase seeds..
Second, Get Followers, Fans and Viewers
- No work actually needed, just sit back and relax.. You have already added your twitter account upon registration. You can set number of seeds your are willing to offer under settings > Twitter > 'edit'.
- Next, you can add your Facebook pages or Youtube videos. Or not! If you want to focus on growing your Twitter followers first.
Finally, Few Notes
- To control the quality of followers/fans you need to set some limits. Go to settings>twitter> click 'edit' on your Twitter account. put some limitations on drop rate or membership length.
- Drop rate of a member measures how frequently they unfollow others. You can exclude members with high drop rate which usually means low quality follow.
- Membership length filtering allows you to exclude new members that didn't establish drop-rates yet and thus their behavior can be unpredictable.
- You should use Twiends responsibly.. If you aggressively follow or unfollow hundreds of users in a single day, Twitter could suspend your account!
- Twiends provides twust score which is a very useful tool to see how worthy is a twitter profile. Also, you can check my browser bookmarklets to easily check Topsy or Klout Score of a Twitter profile just by highlighting the username.
- I Hope this review was useful to you.. If you have any other tricks about growing your Twitter followings or Facebook likes, let's hear it in the comments.
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