Here is one conventional belief on how to gain more followers on any microblogging site: follow as many as you can and you'll get more followers. If you've ever heard about Osen Komura Experiment, you already know what power lies in subscribing to someone's updates. But all that is tedious and boring if you have to muck around, subscribing (especially manually) to any user on the site. What about if you set up a bot or client program to do just that for you? Wonderful! I mean, you only have to set up some program, get out your hammock, go out and bask in the sun for some hours as the bot mass-follows for you. But the downside is that you'll have to grapple with one heavy stream of posts. Furthermore, if you know anything about purging your followers, then what was the benefit of mass-following in the first place?

 I am not wrong if I said that many users on any microblogging site usually have to grapple with these 2 decisions before following/subscribing to anyone:

1. Should I follow this one? This one can really exercise your mind. If you are into mass-following may be you really don't care much about this. But if you really care about knowing the interests of the person you want to subscribe to, the quality of their updates, where they come from (as in "What part of the world are you from") and of what strategic value they have to your mission then you've got some "thinking"/strategizing to do. Let's re-phrase this question; should it be "Who should I follow?"
2. How many should I follow? There isn't any limit to how many people you should follow for you to gain followers. However, it's good to be sensitive to what is acceptable and unacceptable on the site. Did I hear that Twitter has caps on the maximum number of people you can follow based on your "followee" to follower ratio? BTW, there are validation services out there that can knock out bots mass-following users. So if you are using one, count these users using them out (of your reach). Add to that the wariness of some microbloggers who when they find that you are following 1000+ people, have only posted 5 updates to your timeline, and you have only 6 followers, will automatically assume that you are up to no good.

Let's Overturn this Following Business

Have you ever thought of a microblogging site that does not require you to follow anyone? Or may be one that automatically makes you a *friend* of all the other users after signing up on the site? Well, Kenya BlogHaus is just that site. No mucking around, subscribing to other users here. It's simply a simple, fast sign-up to a world of other bloggers who are your friends and subscribers on the site. Try it!