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Do you want to increase your followers?  Or are you as sick as I am of the various products that will help you increase your follower count?

I’ve been on Twitter now for several months and the one thing I’ve noticed is the obsession with having the greatest number of followers.

This is most obvious in the number of automated direct messages I receive that are essentially selling yet another product that will either automate the follow/un-follow process for you, telling you where the free tools are that will do this for you, or linking to services that are essentially pyramid schemes.  All playing on the etiquette of always following someone who is following you.

Here are some of my thoughts on the phenomenon.

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Get the business leader’s guide to using Twitter to gain competitive advantage.

Since 2006, forward-thinking companies like Apple, JetBlue, Whole Foods, and GM have discovered the instant benefits of leveraging the social media phenomenon known as Twitter to reach consumers directly, build their brand, and increase sales. Twitter is at the leading edge of the social media movement, allowing members to connect with one another in real time via short text messages–called "tweets"–that can be received either via the Twitter site or by e-mail, instant messenger, or cell phone. Many companies have started building entire teams within their organization dedicated solely to responding to tweets from consumers about their brand. And this is just the beginning.

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If you want to emulate the services of something like Twitter Karma you are going to need to learn how to retrieve your list of friends and followers.

What makes this especially difficult is that the documentation for this on both the Twitterizer site (where it is practically non-existent) and on the Twitter site (where it is not exactly accurate) makes figuring out this process particularly difficult.

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So far we’ve established a way to send messages from our ASP.NET application to twitter.  But what about retrieving the messages your friends have sent out?

This is actually pretty simple once you know which API call retrieves what.

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Yesterday I posted a short description of how to get Twitterizer installed in a web app.  We left off making sure that the DLL was installed correctly but that’s about as far as we got.

Today I want to extend the application to allow you to login using the Login control and post a message.

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