My Twitter Responses to New Followers

Over at TweetLater.com You have the option of automatically sending a welcome message to new followers. I would bet most people use the default message and if they do customize one, they only have one. The first thing you should do is get rid of the generic message. Secondly, a rule that you HAVE to follow is to stop the urge to have a message that contains spam. If you want to repel someone, the best way is in your very first contact, try and sell them something. Thirdly, an option you have is to put in several, I use 20 return messages when someone follows me. Remember, you want to stand out, get the person curious, and maybe solicit some kind of response. I have some that range from the ridicules to the sublime. I actually have a high rate of response from these.

In order to set up the multiple rotating feature you need to wrap the 140 characters or less messages in curly braces {} and delimit them with a bar | . Here is an example of what I use. These are just a few random messages I send out and some examples of some of the responses.

Messages
{
If there’s one thing I just want is… it’s for you to have a remarkable day! Hope life’s treating you good. |
If you could ever get a nice European sports car, what color would you like? I’m thinking of a dark blue. |
Have you ever noticed that when you stop searching and looking for something, the thing then appears? Isn’t that weird? |
I like fishing. A bad day of fishing is always better than the best day of work. Do you get to fish as much as you want to? |
Now that I have so much free time my wife’s honey do list is growing. Little does she know it but I hire the neighbor kids to do most of it.|
I like apples better than oranges. Isn’t it amazing how we are all so much alike but each have our own peculiarities. Did I spell that ? |
Do you like beer? I do. Maybe too much. Maybe it’s because I have too much time on my hands. Maybe I need to get a real job. Nah…
}

Responses
No I do not get to fish nearly as often as I would like.. today, I would rather be fishing anywhere than working. ; )
I like grapes lol, we are all similar in some way Chris…have a great day
I live in Finland and the weather has changed today constantly. In the morning it was pouring rain, then sunshine etc. Where are you?
Thks 4 d folow.I lik beer 2.Prety mch budweiser.n a botl.Im crntly unmployd. lot of tim on my hnds 2. Hope th lottery pays off, doutfull.
Right now, more money to pay the mortgage, but usually i’d pick more time.

Action Item
Make your own auto-responder using the rules above, and you’ll actually start having some followers who are more apt to look at your profile and follow the link to your blog. Have a remarkable day.