Chris — I’m glad to hear that Twitter is catching on; hopefully they’ll be like Google, able to stop people from gaming the system, because that’s a drag for everyone. I really appreciated your blog post on the subject. I think the most important point, beyond that these practices could get you suspended, is that they don’t work — if your goal is to build your business by networking.

Wouldn’t that be a drag, eh? Pay someone to learn how to build your follower count on Twitter fast only to have your account suspended because you actually did what they said to do. Doesn’t sound like a good plan in my book!