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Re:Followware by latitude on Monday April 30, 2012 @02:46AM (#3908281)
It just occurred to me that a free service of notable popularity can be capitalized on, and without resorting to ads.

You use the service - you follow me on Twitter/Facebook/elsewhere. You get the service, and I get an ear to promote my other projects.

Have anyone tried this before?

Re:Followware by harlanlewis on Monday April 30, 2012 @03:44AM (#3908377)
I'm (thankfully) out of date on Facebook marketing tactics, but gating content behind Likes and Invited Friend Counts is standard - there are even plenty of sweepstakes to win just for consenting to being shown a like button. Generally speaking, the content behind these gates is a single payoff - a little nibble of digital content. Companies love that trade for ears to promote content to, "like" being a friendly euphemism for "subscribe" and all.

I'm sure it's been tried, but it might be interesting to check Like/Follow persistence in exchange for long-term access to content and services. "Have a twitter account following ours? You're in!"

Re:Followware by dawson on Monday April 30, 2012 @03:25AM (#3908343)
I use the method on http://www.twitterdoctors.net/ and more than 70% of my followers are now doctors, which is useful for the occasions I do tweet about new features and stuff related to my healthcare start-up.

For those interested, I am in the process of re-writing the site (dev version at http://www.twitterdoctors.com/) – to automate the process, try the wizard out, it uses twitter's new event listeners.

Re:Followware by newbie12 on Monday April 30, 2012 @04:36AM (#3908466)
Your site violates Twitter's trademark. You need a different name...
Re:Followware by glennos on Monday April 30, 2012 @05:00AM (#3908526)
These guys have: http://everytimezone.com/ Awesome service, the only "ad" is for their other product, which is not free.
Re:Followware by brownie on Monday April 30, 2012 @03:08AM (#3908322)
It seems like a kinder version of the tweet/like to download which is pretty popular for music marketers.