Getting More Followers on Twitter With HummingBird 2.0 Review

Thales P — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:57:47 +0000

HummingBird 2.0 Website (Affiliate Link)

I won’t beat around the bush on this review of twitter HummingBird, that’s because the new version of HummingBird 2.0 is really practical, somewhat harder to get used to at first, that’s the first turn down I’ve found about this new version. But once you get the hang of it, getting followers become an easy and automated task.

On this version of Twitter HummingBird, there is an “Engine” that searches for people using a keyword chosen by you to follow, for instance, let’s say you want to follow people that are twitting about “Weight loss”, so all you have to do is to entry this keyword on the engine option and every time someone tweet this keyword, if it matches other criteria that you choose, it will automatically follow that person. This is good and also bad if you ask me, because if you want followers to sell a product, it’s most likely that the engine will only find people that is already marketing a product instead of finding people that is looking for that product or more information about it.

Twitter HummingBird Follow Engine

In this HummingBird version 2.0 the chances of you being banned by following too much people in an unnatural way is almost zero, since it is almost like if a human was following, because you don’t follow a list of people like on the previous versions. As a matter of fact, I don’t think they should have taken this feature on this new version, that’s because I really liked following a big amount of people per day and fast, but with this version it is a really hard thing to do, since it uses this engine that is driven by keywords.

HummingBird Engine Configuration

Above you can see the configuration page of the Engine.

HummingBird Reports

The good thing is that now you have total control over followers/following, so you know exactly how many people were followed as also the conversions (people that followed you back after you follow them), this way you can also see the conversion of the keyword you’re targeting on HummingBird 2.0 configuration page.

There are other tools included on this version of HummingBird, like scheduled tweets, url shortening, and so forth, actually url shortening is not a big of a deal since even other free clients like TweetDeck has it. But scheduled tweets may be really useful.

If you have money to spend and want to save time following targeted people on twitter, then HummingBird 2.0 will be a great investment, otherwise, I would ask to save your money and buy your kids a x-mas gift. The price is now reasonable, it was $127 when it first launched, but now it’s only a one time fee of $69. Anyway, you can always download the trial version and play with it a little bit, it’s free after all.

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A Review Of Twitter Sneakiness By Samantha Milner, DSM Publishing

Thales P — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:35:12 +0000

Twitter Sneakiness By Samantha Milner (DSM Publishing)

The last work by Samantha Milner has been released and it’s called Twitter Sneakiness, she is well known by her boldness and expertise in Internet Marketing, together with Dominic Milner they have established an Internet Based publishing outlet called DSM Publishing.

On the sales page of her product it states that you’ll be able to get massive amount of traffic to your affiliate pages or your own website, if that is really possible with Twitter Sneakiness?

First impressions:

Samantha writes in a really friendly way so you feel like she is personally telling you what to do, it begins with some basic principles, to help you get the most out of twitter and also get an idea of what she is going to teach you as you read on.

The lecture of this e-book hooked me since it doesn’t sound so dull like most of the other e-books that I have read on my Internet Marketing journey. So you won’t need to get a pillow nor blankets in order to read this e-book, because it’s direct to the point without messing around just to add pages.

That was one of the things that I enjoyed most about Twitter Sneakiness, other than its straight-forward approach, was the fact that it teaches you from the very beginning after you have a twitter account set up.

So if you were wondering if this e-book it’s just another how-to set up a twitter account, sorry to let you down but it is not, it shows what to do after you get a 0 followers account, how to change this status and how to build and keep what she points out as a “2^nd Subscriber List”.

The “Sneaky Tactics” are they for real or delusional?

It is so schematized it looks more like a daily “To-Do” list of an OCD person. The truth is, she has done all the work and all you have to do is pick an affiliate product, some articles of your authoring and put on the spreadsheet she has made. But that’s not all, because as you can see on twitter everybody does the “copy” & “paste”, but the truth is, they are doing it wrong, I haven’t tried earning money from twitter before, but what she wrote really changed my mind of how twitter should be treated when it comes to making money from tweets.

Following her guideline and ideas, you can easily get a great amount of traffic to your affiliate link/blog/article and also build a strong relationship with your followers, because that’s another thing that she points out in the e-book, the importance of being social and don’t treat your followers just like numbers that will click on your links.

Automating twitter? How so?

Is it really possible to automate tweets? That’s the question that came to my mind once I read her sales page, because twitter is not really “automatizable” since it would need your thoughts to keep the wheel spinning.

Well, I really didn’t see it clearly before I read this section of her e-book, and it is clearly shown me that automating twitter is just a matter of doing it, the way she exposed it’s a piece of cake to automate twitter, so you don’t freak out when you are out of town or too busy to tweet. It’s a really interesting section if you ask me.

Keyword, why it is a great deal on twitter?

This section is by far one of the most interesting in Twitter Sneakiness, that’s because I didn’t think that twitter would be a great way to get traffic from its search engine. So it is a really sneaky method that 90% (or more) of the twitters have no idea about! They are leaving money on the table and Samantha was really wise to get this, but I can’t say it twice because of the fact she let the cat out of the bag on Twitter Sneakiness, and now everyone that buy her e-book will have access to this little keyword secret and use it.

Last words and verdict:

Twitter Sneakiness by Samantha Milner from DSM Publishing is a take action e-book, it sure tells you everything you should know about how to take the most out of twitter, but without action this guide is like the many others out there, even the most expensive ones. I don’t have a shadow of doubt that these tactics can lead you to succeed on twitter.