7 Auto-follow Tools for Twitter Marketing

FollowFormation provides various categories under which Twitter followers are listed. You just need to choose the one that you would like to follow and select the number of followers you would like to add.

Twit Robot provides a collection of Twitter tools like scheduled posts, posting RSS feeds to Twitter, Auto follow,bulk follow, flip text, etc.

You need to login with your Twitter credentials. OAuth is not supported yet. Once you have logged in, you are presented with the following dashboard that shows all the options that TwitRobot supports

Software that automatically builds up your Twitter Follower Network with like minded individuals for huge increase in your twitter markeing efforts: 5 targeted twitter searches, auto follow, auto unfollow, auto tweet, auto message, twitter trends, proxy supported, set it and forget it.

Bird Feeder's sophisticated Follow engine automatically locates and follows Twitter users based on targeted criteria. The intelligent Unfollow engine gives you full command over the users you follow. Bird Feeder is a must if you're a Business, Musician, DJ, and EBay Seller or just want a large following. Put your Twitter account on auto-pilot with Bird Feeder and watch your marketing efforts decrease and your online presence grow!

Hummingbird's focus on managing your followers and friends. Follow pages at a time with the click of a button. Unfollow those who unfollow you; and never re-follow anyone a 2nd time!

Some features that AutoTweeting supports:

Add up to 500 Targeted Specific follows per day!
Auto welcome each one of your followers.
Send Scheduled Individual Tweets!
Send Scheduled Campaigns of Tweets!
Deletes Twitter users you have followed but have not followed you back after a few days.
Every twitter account can have it's own auto welcome message.
Send tweets for any of your 10 twitter accounts.
You can use this with existing Twitter accounts or new ones, it's up to you.

The TwiPing process is fairly simple. Find someone influential in the field you are interested in. Use TwiPing to get a list of all of their followers. Apply a filter using keywords specific to your interest. This weeds out any of their followers you are not interested in. Select this batch of users and follow all of them with one click. If your profile and message is interesting to these people, they will follow you.

If you find that you are spending a lot of time trying to figure out who to follow back when someone follows you, sign-up for the online app SocialOomph . Among other things, TweetLater allows you to (as the name implies) schedule tweets for later posting, but also what they call Vetting Followers. By setting your account to auto-follow but also vet followers, TweetLater will hold your new followers for 72 hours for your review to either follow, ignore, or block.

Twitter will suspend your account if they think you are following too many people too quickly, or are violating their terms of service . It is recommended you follow at most 50 to 75 people per day.