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The Twitter Follow Tool

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ByPercy A

Regardless if you have pristine content, interesting posts including best offers and quality products, none of that will matter if you fall short of attracting your target audience.

One tactic to get noticed is by following users interested in your niche. You can target big accounts of your niche then start following its followers since there is a likely chance that these people would be interested in what you have to offer. But that would involve a lot of clicks since big accounts will most likely have massive followers. And while you can do it manually, it would save you a good deal of time if you will automate it, this is where SM Tasker comes in. With the help of this ultimate automation tool, you can have more time to focus on your content and other strategies that will supplement the growth of your account.

An overview of the Follow tool:

The SM Tasker Follow tool is available for Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, Linkedin, YouTube and Pinterest.

To find this tool, visit the TOOLS section, click on any of the accounts that support the tool or click on More Tools action link then navigate to the Follow Tool tab.

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SM Tasker’s Follow tool works on a similar process for all marked social networks shown in the image above.

The Follow tool has four tabs: Settings, Follow Sources, Extracted Users tab, Follow Results tab.

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Follow Settings

This where you can configure and control the general behavior of the Follow tool.  It has 5 sections:

  • Run Timers
  • Follow Limits
  • User Filters (for Pinterest and Twitter)
  • Follow Settings (not applicable to LinkedIn, Youtube and Quora)
  • After Follow Actions (for Pinterest and Twitter)

Run Timers 

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On this section, you can configure how the tool is going to operate, by means of:

1. The wait between time before each new operation; this is the number of minutes that the tool will wait before starting a new operation

2. How many users to be followed per operation; this is the number of users the tool will process for each operation (for Pinterest – how many users/boards to be followed).

3. The hours when the Follow tool will execute actions

4. You can add a random sleep; this will allow the tool to rest before starting a new operation when it has executed X follows

5. Or you can stop the tool for certain minutes after it has done X follows

6. The days of the week when the tool will execute actions; you can rotate the days when the tool will operate

💡 On rotating days, SM Tasker would pick the equivalent number of days you have initially selected; the selection is random and you have the option to exclude weekends in the variation in case you don’t want to follow on Saturdays and Sundays.

7. Maximum number of users to be followed per day; SM Tasker will pick a random number between X-Y each day and will use that as the maximum number of follows on that particular day

Follow Limits 

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8. In this option you can set to Follow x and y value per day, then you can also increase the value daily until it reaches the maximum value of follows per day that you set.

9. In this option you can set how many follow actions per hour.

10. Enable automatic follow/unfollow – this option is very useful when you want to set a balance between your followers and followings, you can easily set it up and let the follow and unfollow tools automatically switch as per your settings

User Filters (applies to Pinterest and Twitter only)

This part of the Follow Settings tab will allow you to filter the users or boards you want to follow.  If the user or board fails any of the filters then they will not be followed.

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Follow Settings (not applicable to LinkedIn, Youtube and Quora)

  • You can opt to follow ‘recent’ items search on Tumblr
  • For Twitter and Pinterest can choose to follow random users from the extracted list as recorded in the Extracted Users tab (instead of following them in order)

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After Follow Actions (for Twitter and Pinterest only)

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For Twitter:

  • You have the option to ‘Like’ the latest posts of the user that was just followed; this will help you get noticed by users you followed.
  • Mute user after follow

Follow Sources

The sources that you choose will have the biggest role in targeting users that may be interested in what you have to offer which presents good potential for conversion.

Follow people by keyword search is an option available for all networks, but that’s just the beginning. Each social network has some specific follow sources options available for that network only.  In the sample image below, you will see the sources you can use for Twitter.

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Twitter:

  • Follow people by keyword search
  • Follow friends of targeted accounts
  • Follow followers of own followers
  • Follow people from a provided list
  • Follow members from provided Twitter list
  • Follow active users – that have retweeted/liked posts
  • Follow people from a custom URL

Pinterest:

  • Follow people by keyword search
  • Follow boards by keyword search
  • Follow friends of targeted accounts
  • Follow followers of own followers
  • Follow people from a provided list
  • Follow friends of target Boards

Tumblr:

  • Follow people by keyword search
  • Follow people from a provided list

Quora:

  • Follow people by keyword search
  • Follow specific users
  • Custom URL

LinkedIn:

  • Keyword search

Youtube:

  • Follow users/channels by keyword search
  • Source – Users/Channels by videos keyword search
  • Follow users/channels from provided list
  • Follow people from a custom url
  • Follow people that comment on specified vides

Follow Results

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From this tab, you will see the users/boards that were followed and you’ll find additional information such as:

  • The date and time when the user was followed
  • Name of that user
  • What source was used to follow the user
  • Followed Back column will show you if this user followed you back or not
  • Unfollowed column will show you if you unfollowed these users through SM Tasker or not

In addition, you can export the results, import followers, delete results and export follow back ratio.

✅ Follow back ratio is a very useful feature that will show you which of your follow sources yield the best results so that you know what sources you should keep and what sources you should remove.

When we say “which of your follow sources had the best results” we are referring to the number of users that followed you back after you followed them. Thus, the sources that attracted the most followers should be kept.

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