1. Leverage Other Profiles Do you have an existing online profile somewhere outside of twitter (big or small)? Use it to springboard into twitter. If it’s a blog, mention that you’re using Twitter in a post and link to it from your profile and contact pages. If you’re on Facebook use one of the numerous tools available to drag in your Tweets to facebook. Add it to your email signature, business... 

When combined with the already existing limit based on follow ratios, this means that it will be more difficult for marketers or self-promoters to rapidly increase their twitter follower count by following many people. The old days of following thousands of users a day to get thousands of followers back are gone. That’s not to say the strategy of mass following users to increase your...