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Use Google To Get Targeted Twitter Followers

There is so much going on with Twitter that if your not jumping on the bandwagon - I suggest you get a jumping!

As this service evolves there are so many tools available to help you mange your Twitter account that there are entire websites dedicated to tracking the tools.

The idea behind Twitter (among other things) is to acquire followers that are interested in the same things you are and communicate with them, build relationships, and be a part of the community.

After being on Twitter for a while and seeing how it works I was finally ready to build my following!

I have read about how many others get their followers.

There’s those that have a big following already and they just send out an email and *BAM* instant following. There are those that build up their following by finding someone that they are interested in and by going through their list of followers they get followed in return.

Then there’s the controversial viral tool that is getting a lot of followers for some that have used it.

I’m sure that there are hundreds of techniques in the mix that I have not even heard of and many more to come.

All that aside I need to get to the point of what I have been trying!

I wanted to try and follow people that where specifically interested in the things that I want to talk about. I’ve already spent hours going through profiles and past tweets of users to see if they talked about similar interests, but this is extremely time consuming.

After thinking a little bit, I turned to our good friend Google. By performing some simple targeted searches on Google I was able to find Twitter users that where talking about keywords that I was interested in.

Here how I did it.

Go to Google and type in the following: site:twitter.com intext:YOUR_KEYWORD

This will give back a list of tweets and who tweeted them. For example I was interested in seeing who tweeted the word marketing, so I searched the following: site:twitter.com intext:marketing

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The results yielded 295,000 results allowing me to look who said it, what they said, and then all I have to do is click on the link and follow them.

I would suggest you do a little more focused search, but this is a great way to help you figure out who you should follow and if they are talking about the things you are interested in.