Hi!
My blog below this one shows how I've been doing FavStar and Twitter. This one is 5 months later and I want to explain why I'm changing the way I do things.
First off, I've been using FavStar for 6 months. In that time frame I went from 600 followers to over 13,000. If you don't know Twitter, it's a pretty good jump I think. If it wasn't for FavStar you probably wouldn't be reading this as you most likely wouldn't even be following me.
I've made a lot of friends on Twitter and it's been pretty amazing. I've gotten shows out of Twitter, sold some books and have people asking me when I am playing in their city. This wouldn't have happened without FavStar so I don't regret any of it whatsoever.
Here's mainly how I have been working the past 6 months:
Wake up. Think of Twitter. Hop on FavStar - Retweet a whole bunch of people. Baby wakes up. Play with baby while constantly looking at my phone in the background. Send a tweet. If it does well? I stare at my phone to watch it. Get kids ready for school. Stare at my phone. Wife and kids leave. Stare at phone. Hop on FavStar. Retweet, Retweet, Retweet. Kids get home. Stare at phone. Turn on the TV (for a break!) when the kids are in bed and my wife and I would watch a show which I'd miss most of. Talk? TO MY WIFE? Why would I do that when I could retweet? All because of FavStar. I felt this need that I needed to retweet to get as many followers as possible.
This would go on for hours, days, and apparently 6 months. It
has flown by. I have been gaining about 1000 followers every 7-10 days for the
past couple of months because of my system.
FavStar has the option to give trophies which is what made my account
grow. You give a trophy to someone, they may retweet a couple of your
tweets. Typically you give it to a good-sized account and they'll send
some of your Best Of to their followers. That's how I grew but now I've
turned into a decent-sized account where I get about 5 trophies a day.
So that means I'll be hopping on FavStar to do at least 20 retweets
aside from the ones that I'm already doing. At the end of the day, if
you hopped on my timeline there would be about 200 tweets. It's nuts. I don't blame people for trophying me - that is how the game is played and I have done the exact same thing. Do I think that my tweet was actually the best tweet that person saw? Of course not. There are a lot of fantastic writers and if I was being truly honest with my trophies then Steve Martin would have a pile of them.
I would do most of the retweeting from my phone. My position would be sitting in the chair in my living room just thinking. Do I want to go outside? No - why would I when I could retweet? Clean the house? Pffft. Gym? HA! I'll just stare at my phone. Hence why I've gained about 10 pounds over the past 6 months.
I have an addictive personality and I am definitely addicted to Twitter. And FavStar. As with most addictions, you try and get rid of them. I love Twitter and it's done wonders for my business as a comedian so I will still be on there constantly but it is tough to keep up. I heard people reference it as a "full-time job" because they are constantly retweeting people who retweet them. I understand this theory now. It takes over your life if you let yourself do it. Which I have. And I'm trying to get it back.
So - here is what I am planning on doing going forward:
I will still give out a trophy until my FavStar runs out (I just re-upped but probably won't again). I will still give RT's to celebrate trophies. But I am not going to use FavStar for anything else. I have now started to learn how to use Lists (still a work in progress) and I can use my regular timeline so if someone hops on to my actual timeline I want them to see constantly funny tweets from all of you and some mediocre ones from me. I'd rather send your best tweet out there than 5 or 6 as I think it will make that tweet stand out more. Ideally I'd like to cut it down to 100 tweets a day. Hey, it's a start.
I'll still be very active on Twitter as I do love it but I need to ween myself off of FavStar. I also need to put my phone down more. Like, at least once a day.
Anyway, I just wanted to throw this out there so people are aware.
GO SENS GO. (If you don't know what that means you're dead to me)
4 comments:
Funny you write this, i've been doing the same thing for the past week or so, however I didn't really spend a ton of time on Favstar to get followers I just wanted to share the funny stuff. I've had my notifications off (favs & RT's) on my phone for months (it helps), and really only check twitter when I get an @ reply or DM. I know how addictive it can be and i've pulled myself away a bit too. Kids are only small for a little while. Good on you!
Also.. Sens? *snicker*
I apologize for what I'm about to say in advance.
I read this on Thursday & I'm still thinking about it. I'm well aware that being a small account on twitter sucks. You have to retweet or everyone will hate you. However, then your own stuff gets buried. So you have to join favstar. And even then, it's hard to accumulate stars and RTs when you only have 600 followers. You're entirely at the mercy of others retweeting you, even if you're tweets are solid.
All of that said, I can't help but feel like there's a fine line between good marketing & well... icky. Giving trophies to good-sized accounts in order to get RTs in return. Although I was strongly considering going pro before, now I'm questioning that decision.
All of that said, your comedy is solid & I'm not trying to detract from that. Best to you.
And I just wrote you're instead of your. Apologies if you're the type to care.
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