Are Twitter follow exchange sites beneficial to gaining a Twitter audience?

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sheepishwolf

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There are many available Twitter "train"s, twitter follower exchange sites, and twitter follower credit exchange websites. But are they really beneficial to gaining an audience and presence on Twitter? The times that I have tried to use these exchange websites, I usually end up keeping up my end of the exchange and following the user, and they do the same to get "credited" for it on the website, then unfollow right away. It seems that the people on those types of websites are there for one reason: to gain followers doing as little work and interacting with others on Twitter as little as possible. If that's the truth behind is, then are Twitter follow exchange websites really worth it, or is it better to gain followers the old fashioned way (through high quality content tweets and interaction with your audience)?
 
I tried to hire a 3rd party services who told me that he would be getting followers for me. Well i never understood how he did it but he got 500 visitors but it was of no use as all of them seem fake and never visited my website profile. Its not beneficial if it is not done with the proper way and you would gain nothing by people or bots just following without real people who have genuine interest in you or the product you offer.
 
They are worth only in the beginning of your twitter campaign, when you need social proof so that people see that there are people that follow you.After a couple of thousand followers you can slowly start to implement other strategy such as searching your targeted audience via the search option and then commenting or re-tweeting something of theirs and finally following them so that you receive a followback.

Oh yes and be sure to unfollow profiles that don't follow you because the following-follower ratio has a huge psychological value.
 
I don't see a point to them, it's better to just be honest and tell people you've just started using twitter and would like them to part take. Getting people to boost your followers just helps your ego.
 
These are only good to give you a head start or to bulking up a new account, but overall I don't really see it as necessary. It gets you a lot of followers, but those followers are generally not interested in what you have to say anyway so I don't think they are worth much in terms of being an audience. I would rather have a small amount of followers who genuinely want to be there rather than have a huge following but no one really reads my tweets.
 
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