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Twitter is a great place to build a database of contacts. The power of having thousands of people who you can instantly send a message to is why Twitter is doubling every 90 days in size. Twitter is fast appraching 50 million users and it’s this instant messaging facility that gives it the edge.

To get ‘followers’ most people begin following other people. You can target your list by putting names, companies, industries into the search box and start following. Soon you’ll be able to see who you are following and those following you.

But you need to watch this carefully as having too many people you are following maybe detrimental to your status. Let’s say you were following 200 people but you had only 20 people following you. This would give the impression that you didn’t offer value or perhaps are not interesting. Nothing could be further from the truth in most cases.

You need to aim for an even balance of followers and following. Even better is to have more followers and those you are following.

Here’s how you can achieve that using an effective piece of FREE software.

Visit Twitter Karma at http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ and there you’ll be able to manage your Twitter account. Simply login and you’ll be able to see who is following you and those you are following. You can also narrow this down to see those that you are following BUT not following you.

Now given that some of your ‘follow requests’  maybe new, then this will cause an imbalance. But if these requests exceed a week, then I would personally delete them from your following list.

Twitter Karma is perfect for this as it allows you to select those that you are following only (and not following you) and gives you the option to bulk delete them. This is very handy when when you are wanting to delete 100’s at a time.

Try Twitter Karma (it’s FREE) http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ and you’ll be a leader not a follower.

Real Estate Agents Who Lead And Those Who Follow – Managing Your Twitter Account