How would you like to add several hundred twitter followers every day, forever? Without adding any additional work to your day? Without installing any software? Just put it on autopilot and walk away?

If that's an interesting proposition, you should read through this entire article.

New Twitter Limits

A while back, Twitter published some limits on following people on Twitter. The key numbers from this are:

• 1,000 per day - That's the limit for the number of people anyone can follow in a day. It doesn't matter if you're Ashton or just Joe Marketer, 1,000 is the limit. That applies to the services that follow people back for you as well.
• 2,000 people to start - You can follow up to 1,000 people per day until you hit 2,000 people. Twitter doesn't publish the next number, but we can verify that it's 10%. You can follow 10% more people than are following you after you've followed 2,000 people.

A Different Approach to Fighting Spammers

While Twitter does indeed go after spammers, they aren't as heavy handed as Digg. They don't seem to ban on a whim. Instead, they let the natural limits of the system determine what people can do. This is more effective than Digg's strategy, which seems to have been to make their system as unusable as possible for marketers. Twitter seems to realize that marketers are a key component of their ecosystem and have helped them grow.

Internet Marketers are like the helpful bacteria in your digestive system. You'd think they'd be bad for you, but if you eradicate them you'll end up sick. Social networks that take a heavy handed approach towards discouraging marketers are doing the same thing.

If you're a long time Promote My Suite Social Suite User, you'll notice some big changes that just went into effect. For one thing, we've dropped all the Digg support. They just didn't seem to be interested, and it wasn't worth fighting the constant battles to get a share of a declining market. Twitter is clearly outpacing Digg these days, so we thought it made more sense to put our efforts into a platform that was actually friendly to internet marketers.

What do the Limits Mean to You?

The new following limits aren't that big a deal to internet marketers (honest ones, at least). 1,000 people a day is a lot of follows. That's 30,000 people you could follow in a month if you were willing to put the time in. If you could get 80% of them to follow you back you'd be adding 24,000 followers a month. It wouldn't take you very long to be a real player.

The problem is most internet marketers don't work like that. They're chronically short on attention. They'll try something for a couple of days or maybe even a week, and then move on to the next shiny thing that pops up. It takes an overwhelming amount of discipline to pound your keyboard through 1,000 profiles every day, cull out the ones that aren't following you after a few days, and keep that up over the long term.

Put it on Autopilot

And more importantly, you can spend your time interacting with people and doing real marketing instead of trying to make tools work and clicking lots of buttons.

Check it out: PMS Social Suite. There's a free version for registered users too!