What Does It Take To Get A Million Twitter Followers?
Do You Have Over A Million Twitter Followers Yet? What does it take to get a million Twitter followers? (Assuming you’re not cheating with some lame following program) We all know it helps to be very famous like Oprah Winfrey (over 3 million followers) or very popular like Twitter it’s self (2.9 million). You could provide a valuable service like CNN Breaking News (2.8 million) but according to TwitterHolic.com only 219 Twitter accounts currently have over a million followers.
There are probably a million articles about getting a ton of followers and just as many people tripping over themselves trying to get there but the real folks that Tweet work hard to keep the numbers low and the quality high. That’s what I have tried to do with our Twitter account. I’m not a fanatic with it but I am a little selective who I follow and when I have a little free time I start blocking followers that look too spammy.
Ok, with all that said, what does it take to get a million Twitter followers?
My answer is…
Wait for it
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Be very interesting! That’s the only explanation I can see on why a 29 year old guy living with Dad, has no website and doesn’t even have a location on his profile has over a million Twitter followers. His name is Justin Halpern but goes by just ‘Justin‘ on Twitter, follows only one person, never re-tweets, never replies and only Tweets things his Father says. You gotta love it! Check it out, http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays Seriously, It’s hard to stop reading his Tweets.


















Sire on February 6th, 2010
Well he’s just got one more. You know I think he’s got that many followers because of people like you Dennis. Honestly the guy only has 99 tweets. That’s not many tweets to have accumulated such a huge following. It just has to be from world of mouth advertising. Just goes to show how powerful that is.
Once again, it’s not the quantity of tweets it’s the quality

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Brian D. Hawkins Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
You’re too funny Sire, Dennis is going to get a complex if you keep thinking we’re the same person lol
I’m glad he only has 99 tweets so far because I read every one of them and I had other things to do. What a great idea to share that funny old man.
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Sire Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Shit Brian, I’m sorry mate. It’s just that I see so much of Dennis everywhere I go I’m sure his name is impregnated into my mind. I just hope I don’t say it in my sleep or my wife is going to start wandering about my sexual preference.
Sire´s last blog ..How Twitter Can Actually Earn You Some Cash
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Brian D. Hawkins Reply:
February 7th, 2010 at 12:05 am
No worries mate (yep, I know Australian), I see the comment king in my sleep somethings too