Here’s the next step in the process of transforming Fauxlowers.com from mildly entertaining to actually useful: tagging. You can now tag your profile with terms that describe you and use those tags to search for other members with the same tag (hint: people you may want to follow on Twitter). And if another member hasn’t [...]

I’m an avid reader of Daniel Scocco’s DailyBlogTips.com, but today, I have to boo.
Boo! Boo! Boo!
Today, Daniel’s post titled Looking To Get More Twitter Followers? Then Check Twitfever.com announced a membership site featuring, among other things:

Follow from Profile Tool: This tool allows you to mass follow the friends or followers of a specific Twitter user. [...]

For the last few days, Fauxlowers.com has been running a secret mind control experiment. Muahahahahahaha! Here’s a chart showing the results:
What the chart shows is the fauxlower thresholds for new members joining the site recently. (A fauxlower threshold is the number of people our members believe a person can follow on Twitter before it becomes [...]

I’ve just added a new stats section to the Fauxlowers.com homepage listing the people with the top 10 best follower/friend ratios. Here’s the list as of right now (the number is how many followers they have per friend):

aplusk: 16,014
HolyWords: 11,283
tonyrobbins: 5,459
TheUniKid: 3,503
matisyahu: 2,352
TEDchris: 2,231
om: 1,904
weakestlink: 1,893
englishexperts: 1,799
Agent_M: 1,783

Holy schnikes! 16,014 followers per friend?! My current [...]

I just published the first issue of the Social Media Influence Report. It’s a free download (yes, subscription required…unless you’re a Fauxlowers.com member, in which case you can get it here).
This issue is about Twitter influencers. It analyzes the membership of Fauxlowers.com to see who was able to get the most of their followers to [...]

How often should you tweet? How important is the quality of your tweets? Here’s my take.
As a general rule, you should tweet as often as you’ve got something worth saying. But it’s really more complicated than that. Because the more often you tweet, the higher the quality of each tweet needs to be.
Why? Because a [...]

Yesterday, in a post titled “Clout” Seth Godin mused aloud in his blog:
[the web] knows how many followers your followers have… If you knew which of your followers had clout, you could invest more time and energy in personal attention. If we knew where big ideas were starting, that would be neat, and even more [...]

Yesterday, I wrote about how to identify influential Twitterers who are possible to engage in conversation. I wanted to add a little to that — how to identify which of your own followers you should be following — here’s the process:

If you don’t already have a Fauxlowers.com profile, create one and fill in your settings [...]

You know the old saying, “if a Twitterer Tweets in the Fauxlower Forest and no one is there to listen (only to talk), does that make for social networking?” Okay, that’s not exactly how it goes.
The point is that there’s not much point tweeting if nobody’s listening. So how do you go about finding people [...]

The following is a conversation about auto-DMs that I overheard last night in the land of make believe.
Demosthenes: Auto-DMs are the bane of Twitter. Every time I follow somebody new, I get a direct message that’s obviously automated. They clog up my direct message in-box.
Fluffy: What do the messages say?
Demosthenes: Some of them are like [...]