Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff from House stuff works dot com
Speaker 1: where smart happens. I am Marshall Brain with today's question,
Speaker 1: what is the best way to get followers for a
Speaker 1: Twitter account or a Facebook page? Today's question is just
Speaker 1: a little different because I don't actually know the answer yet. Instead,
Speaker 1: what I will be doing is performing a set of
Speaker 1: experiments with a virgin Facebook account and a virgin Twitter
Speaker 1: account to see which techniques work and don't work when
Speaker 1: it comes to bringing in followers. You can find the
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Speaker 1: This account has a hundred and nineteen followers at this
Speaker 1: exact instant. Both of these accounts are brand new, and
Speaker 1: this podcast is really the first of a series of experiments.
Speaker 1: The experiment today is if you announce a new Twitter
Speaker 1: and Facebook account on a podcast, do any of your
Speaker 1: podcast listeners start following you? Today is May two thousand
Speaker 1: and ten, so you can look at both accounts over
Speaker 1: time and see exactly what happens is I do these
Speaker 1: different experiments. As I do other experiments, I'll write them
Speaker 1: up in the brain Stuff blog and post them on
Speaker 1: the Twitter and Facebook accounts, and if any of them
Speaker 1: really work, I'll also echo them here in the podcast. Again.
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