After installing sexybookmarks plugin I retweeted the newest post on affiliate marketing. I didn’t expect anything other than a few of my followers to click a link and check out the post. I had my email opened and all of the sudden it went crazy with new twitter follower updates. I got 8 new followers within the first minute.

So I did some testing. I went into the second old and unused account and did the same thing. Instant followers there too. I searched for the term “affiliate marketing” on twitter – http://twitter.com/#search?q=affiliate%20marketing and noticed that while I was listed on the search page for a few minutes, I was getting new followers, mostly people interested in affiliate marketing.

What was strange is that I only got 2 new readers on my blog, which may have been from my loyal followers as well.

People who followed me on both accounts were different, so they must be real people rather then bots following everybody who posts about affiliate marketing. Some had a very significant amount of followers as well.

Anyway, here is the point: Do you need twitter followers? Keep on retweeting the blog posts. I did my retweet at 1am PST in case it matters. By helping the blog you like, you are helping yourself since there are quite a few ways to monetize twitter accounts now.

Just click the twitter birdie on the sexy bookmark plugin below to retweet this post if you want to test it out.

Good luck.

UPDATE: Retweet of this post resulted in only 4 instant followers. Not sure if it is because of the keywords or because the results on the search page just rotate faster at 7pm PST.