I wrote about a cool Twitter app yesterday and I wanted to let you all know about the coolest Twitter directory. Today I added my twitter profile to the We Follow directory. If you have not heard of the We Follow directory yet, it is a Twitter directory created by Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg. The directory basically is a list of the top the top Twitter users based on category. It is super easy to get listed in the directory. All you have to do is tweet this : @wefollow #yourtag #yourtag #yourtag . Your tags will be the categories that you would like to be added in. I used this @wefollow#blog #blogging “#directory. I did not add my listing under blogger because there are already close to 10,000,000 people in that category. I wanted to join some categories where I had a chance to be seen in the search results. With that being said, I am happy that I am on the front page out of 126,000 for the directory category.
I have used the strategy of joining some big categories and then a smaller one to be a big fish in a small pond. You will have to devise your own strategy to get the most out of this tool. I plan to use this tool in conjunction with the FriendorFollow tool I blogged about yesterday. I plan on following 25 people per day from each category. At the end of the week I will have over 300 new people that I am following. I am hoping that a good majority will follow back. I will be very interested to figure out the percentage. I will then use the FriendorFollow tool to see who followed me back and who didn’t. I will then stop following those people. I will continue with this plan and add it to my daily tasks as I am sure I will gain a bunch of new followers. Of course I will let you know how it goes so stay tuned…
Thanks for the information, as i read your post i posted the code into my twitter page. Hopefully that will add me to the directory.
thanks but do people really use twitter directory? everyone submits to web directory but very few use them nowadays.
Nice article. You give me a good idea. Thank you!
You should also check out this cool Twitter tool. If you use Internet Explorer you may want to try TweetIE, the twitter add-on for IE that helps you post quotes from the websites you visit to your twitter account http://tweetie.cloudberrylab.com/ FireFox plug-in is also available.