I’m more interested in good web practices. Automation just seems like a bit of trickery that will be banned by the major SE’s in the future. I’m kind of surprised Google hasn’t set a policy for these type of programs yet. Only a matter of time IMHO.

I feel the same way. I only follow people I am truly interested in. I don’t know how you can maintain a truly social network with too many people. With that said every review I’ve read about Tweet Adder was positive. I tried the free trial, but couldn’t really get behind automating something like this. It just seems like a bad practice to me.

The only way to be good on Twitter is to actively communicate and retweet relevant information. Engage in dialogue with people who actually follow you back. I don’t see anything wrong with a bulk unfollow, because hey, we are all trying to network here aren’t we? There are other places to do that though.

I think if someone follows you on twitter from your area (geographic or expertise) you should automatically follow them back otherwise, you are that cool kid in class who only follows a few people, and thinks they are better than everyone else.

Follow those of like mind, interact with them, offer relevant information, and you will master twitter. That being said, don’t self promote too much, it’s been shown that Twitter is a better place to brand a person than an actual product.

Now, the only automation I have set up is to follow people who follow me – I figure that’s a fair practice.