"Follower services" to stay clear of

You will occasionally see tweets recommending services that promise a lot of followers by joining and then following the users that are listed on that site. This may seem like a good idea at first, but please consider the following caveats.

• First of all, you are giving the service your twitter username and password and are giving them permission to send advertisement tweets as long as you are member of the service
• To comply to the rules of the respective site, you have to follow everbody which will leave you with a lot of "marketing" accounts that probably want to spam you even further
• You will probably follow considerably more users than you receive followers, regardless of what the site claims
• The followers you get are not topical interested in you, they are just following you due to fact that they joined the same site
• If you want to buy the "VIP" membership of such a site, keep in mind that the services may be rather short-lived and you probably not get any refund when the site goes down (see sample list below)

In all, I would suggest not joining any of the sites, if you already have joined, cancel your membership and change your password (if you cannot cancel your membership, just change the password and complain to Twitter.com about the abuse).
Sites operating with the same concept include the following (some of these sites are exact copies of each other with exchanged service names):

• http://www.iwantfollowers.com/
• http://www.morefollowers.info/
• http://www.extrafollowers.com/
• http://www.addfollowers.info/
• http://vipfollowers.com/
• http://www.tweeterfollow.com/
• http://NeedFollowers.com/
• http://www.youradder.com/
• http://mytweetfollowers.com/
• http://followadd.net/
• http://tweeterattack.com/
• http://www.twittershuffle.com/
• http://followersfree.com/
• http://followersnow.com/
• http://ineedfollowers.com/
• http://thousandfollowers.com/
• http://followersfast.com/
• http://the-twitter-follow-train.info/
• http://www.followersplus.com/
• http://bestfollowers.com/
• http://findfollowers.info/
• http://twitter-follow.de/
• http://follow-u-follow.me/
• http://twitterfollowtrain.com/
• http://www.twitter-follow-train.info/
• http://hugefollowing.com/ 

Feel free to visit any of the sites, I just wouldn't suggest them.

There are also quite a few more domains that forward to one of the services via an affiliate link, so if you end up at a domain from the list above with an added referral id, the same caveat applies, obviously.
E.g.

• http://www.getfreefollowers.com/
• http://www.moretwitterfollowers.tw/

The reason behind this is obvious, the services want to avoid becoming blacklisted.
(Updated 07/25/09)

New statistics

statistics from blvdstatus.com. lets see how this works out.

Also I have set up a feedburner.com account.

Getting your invite Link on 140army.com

It seems that currently your own invite link isn't shown on the 140army.com site, here is my short solution to figure out your own link:

Send an invite to one of your followers from the page "Recruit", then go to twitter.com, click on "Direct Messages" and on "Sent". You should see a message to your follower containing a bit.ly URL, this is your invite link.

kill file feature similar to newsreaders for twitter

There are usually a few tweets by given users that I want to ignore without unfollowing the user, it would be very useful to be able to ignore tweets based on substring patterns or regexp, either for a given user or for all users.

The same could be useful for highlighting certain tweets.

This could be either implemented on the service itself (webpage and api) or it could be implemented in the 3rd party applications, e.g. Tweetdeck

I have proposed this on getsatisfaction/twitter and on tweetdeck.uservoice.com

let's how this turns out

DNS

leider löscht mein DNS an und zu den Eintrag für blog.lehmann.cx

aber es liest sowieso keiner hier den Kram.