Tim OReilly. Oh, please "learn the secrets of getting 100,000 followers?" Yeah, get on the Twitter Recommended Follower list. That's the only way, unless you are Leo Laporte. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

This conference is bettter for most marketers and developers: http://parnassusgroup.com/twitter... - Robert Scoble

Why would people aim for 100k followers? Twitter is for keeping your audience informed. Most people have a small audience and would never and should never get 100k followers - Chris Saad

Chris: that's what O'Reilly's Twitter Bootcamp is advertising as one of the key benefits of going to its conference. The thing is it isn't possible to get more than 100,000 followers unless you bring the Twitter team a bunch of cupcakes and get added to its recommended follower list. Everyone who has more than 100,000 followers is on that list. Mike Arrington's @techcrunch for instance, had about 40,000 followers before he was added to that list. - Robert Scoble

No I know - I was questioning the 100k as one of the goals of the camp - not your reference to it :) - Chris Saad

Chris: if you are a publisher and rely on having large audiences (like @oprah) for your business, then you might care about having lots of followers. I agree that it's not a good goal. It's not achievable, first of all, unless you are a celebrity like @oprah. Second of all businesses should be far more concerned with building a great community with their tweets. More on this in a while with my post about Zappos (they have 430 employees on Twitter). - Robert Scoble

Trish: exactly. Why did Oprah get on there? She's only been on Twitter for a few days. How can they know she's a good Twitterer? Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Who needs 100,000 followers that they're not really interacting with or engaging in any substantive way anyway? People who teach "secrets of getting 100,000 followers" are just modern-day web 2.O snakeoil salesmen. People should be more interested in some metric of ENGAGEMENT rather than the metric of followers. I'm curious how Twitter would look if they quit publishing follower numbers and everyone could only judge by content alone? - Chris Aldrich

Is there a technology available that can detect whether someone is doing all of their own twittering? I gather tweet frequency would be a big part of this. : ) A group of folks I was with this morning was discussing this. I know I can't tweet that fast! - Rob Schieber

Chris: I wish Twitter would do that, but Twitter is not saveable. The corporate culture there is not community focused and there's no way to change that once a culture gets set in place. - Robert Scoble

Rob: I find that asking them to Tweet in front of me usually does the trick. :-) - Robert Scoble