My Twitter stats before the competition:

Following: 635

Followers: 373

Round 1. Maximize your Follower Gain

Follower Gain (FG) = Followers - Unfollowers

Scoring:

FG > 100 = 2 point

100 < FG < 500 = 4 point

500 < FG < 3000 = 6 point

FG > 3000 = 8 point

Bottlenecks: This might seem simple — just keep following people and eventually you’ll start getting followbacks. True. But you have to maintain a certain following/follower ratio.

Eg: You can follow only 2000 users at first. It’s only after your follower count reaches a certain level that you are allowed to follow more people.

Strategy: The first thing I had to do was find people to follow, but there are two big questions here:

How to find people who would followback? How to make sure those people engage (favorite, retweet and mentions) my tweets?

With some research and actual experimentation, I figured out the answers to these pressing questions:

Choose a niche interest for your Twitter profile. Find people who post interesting tweets and are active everyday on social media. This ensures that people are active and are likely to engage with you. Find people who have a Follower to Following ratio of 1 to 2. These people are more likely to follow you back.

Solution: Following thousands of people manually is just impossible when you have to kick some ass in a competition. That’s why I wrote this very simple script that you can run in the browser which will automatically follow people on Twitter. You just have to go to your competitor’s follower list, open Developer Tools for Chrome, paste this script and press ENTER.

a = setInterval(function () {

window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);

$('.not-following .user-actions-follow-button.js-follow-btn button.follow-text').click();

}, 1000);

This will automatically follow all visible people on that page, scroll for you, load more people, follow them and so on. If you want to stop the script, just paste the following line and press ENTER.

clearInterval(a)

After this, I was all set for winning Round 1. The only thing you must keep in mind after doing all this is: CLEAN YOUR ACCOUNT (Try @Crowdfire’s Non -Followers feature)

PRO TIP: Give some time for people to follow back. After that, unfollow everyone who does not follow you back to keep your Following to Follower ratio balanced and so that you are not stopped by Twitter’s rate limits on your way to glory!

First Round @GetStatsApp Stats: