[siquick]

http://www.programmingformarketers.com/automatic-twitter-fol...

It's dirty but it works.

I'm of the opinion that it's important to maintain a good ratio of following:followers

If you follow 10,000 but only have 100 followers then people will assume you're spam and not follow you.

You can also use something like http://quuu.co/ which automates the posting of content via Buffer.

Alternatively, you could just join Twitter conversations naturally and build your following that way.

In my experience, Twitter doesn't give the best traffic (both quantity and quality) compared to other acquisition sources.

[siquick]

As a fun test of this in action, post a tweet and use the hash tags #startups #growth #marketing etc and watch all the Bots favourite your tweets.

[ruler88]

What are some of the 'best traffic' sources that you referred to?

[siquick]

Completely depends on your area of relevance and if you're B2B or B2C and I'm not sure what you are.

For example, for a music app/site you would get strong and qualified traffic from Facebook ads, targetted at users who like the artists and record labels you feature. Or you could look at Pinterest, posting album covers.

One of the best for me has been Medium, way more effective than any blog I ever had. Probably because of the built-in userbase, and the SEO efforts that any blog would have to take a huge effort to build up.

[danm07]

Facebook is pretty good. Between the big three (Google Ads, Twitter, and Fb), Facebook's traffic has lowest bounce rate, highest page views, and time spent.

Traffic through Twitter are mostly spam in my experience (i.e. 0 seconds spent on page). Although if you can get a viral topic going, that is generally a little better.