We knew it was coming and now it’s here. The New layout for twitter has been launched! Twitter has revamped itself with some cool new features incorporating search options, more related tweet info and a much larger sidebar which allows you to view images, video and other fun stuff. While this is a nice step [...]

I did it! After 10 days of simple but focused work – at 1:28pm EST on December 31st I finally gained my 1000th follower on Twitter – more than 8 hours ahead of my self-imposed 10 Day deadline. In 10 days, I followed an average of 140 people per day and gained an average of [...]

If you’ve been following along yourself with the quest for 1,000 followers – you’ve been playing “inside the lines” as far as twitter’s rules and limitations. So this raises the question, where does Twitter draw the line to determine abuse in your account? As Twitter continues to grow in popularity and effectiveness, they have imposed [...]

With only two days to go after today, I’m looking at reaching my 1,000th follower by noon on the 10th day of this challenge. To give myself a little extra push, I’ve added 200 followers from my 3 main sources of buzzom.com, twellow.com and twitterfollower.com. I spent a good hour on that today since I’m [...]

Since I spent yesterday customizing everything that appears outside of the content area of my twitter page, it’s appropriate that today is spent on creating a larger collection of tweets. While I’m working at becoming a respected authority in the world of web design and marketing, I realize that I have yet to create an [...]

It’s Day 6 of the 1,000 followers campaign and now that I’m continuing to build a following on twitter, it’s time to get away from the generic look of my twitter page. On day 1 all I did to customize things was to add a description of myself and upload my picture to get away [...]

I’m finally past the halfway point in my quest for 1000 followers. At the end of day 5, I was being followed by 518 twitter users! That’s 518 more than I had 5 days ago and an average of 103/day – right on target. Today I followed the same formula I had been adhering to [...]

At the end of Day 4 – I’m still on track but I will look to make a huge jump in followers on Day 5 to give myself a little breathing room as I get closer to 1000 followers. If you’ve been following along with this storyline, you’ve read about the nifty tools, I’ve used [...]

At the end of Day 3 I’m right on schedule with 289 people following me on Twitter. After a slow start on day one, I gained 132 followers today. Now I just have to stick to the plan of following enough people each day. I need to keep on pace of adding roughly 120-175 followers [...]

I woke up this morning to see that overnight my followers had jumped from 55 to 78. So now that I’m building a base of readers I need to start tweeting about something. The obvious thing to tweet about in this case is this blog and my quest for 1000 followers. If you are trying [...]