I still don’t know exactly how they grow their accounts so quickly (other than there being a lot of automated scripts involved), but I’m with you and Dan et al. for now: if you’re famous, your Twitter account will be instantly huge (see: Bill Gates). Otherwise, tweet well and the rest will work itself out, but spend time focusing on good blog posts, not brilliant ways to game the Twitter system, in general.

I kid, but not about the post. It’s good and I think the one thing you can get lost on a bit is what the number of followers means. It seems pretty apparent once you peck around Twitter for a while that you can get tens of thousands of followers if you want them. But more than likely they’re going to be unqualified Twitter users. Accounts designed for MLM things and the like.

I agree with Dan Zarrella, have good tweets, follow good people, put your tweets in places people will see them–by using good hashtags and the like–and (at least theoretically) the people will come.

I have some great videos from around the world. When this site is my focus again, you’ll get to see them.