Welcome to brain Stuff from House stuff works dot com where smart happens. I am Marshall Brain with today's question, what is the best way to get followers for a Twitter account or a Facebook page? Today's question is just a little different because I don't actually know the answer yet. Instead, what I will be doing is performing a set of experiments with a virgin Facebook account and a virgin Twitter account to see which techniques work and don't work when
it comes to bringing in followers. You can find the Twitter account at Twitter dot com slash brain stuff hs W. At this exact moment, the Twitter dot com slash brain stuff hs W account has a hundred and twenty followers. The Facebook account is at Facebook dot com slash brain stuff. This account has a hundred and nineteen followers at this exact instant. Both of these accounts are brand new, and this podcast is really the first of a series of experiments.
The experiment today is if you announce a new Twitter and Facebook account on a podcast, do any of your podcast listeners start following you? Today is May two thousand and ten, so you can look at both accounts over time and see exactly what happens is I do these different experiments. As I do other experiments, I'll write them up in the brain Stuff blog and post them on the Twitter and Facebook accounts, and if any of them really work, I'll also echo them here in the podcast. Again.
The Twitter account is at Twitter dot com slash brain stuff HSW. It's not just brain stuff, It's brain Stuff HSW. On Twitter, and on Facebook it is Facebook dot com slash brain stuff once again, Twitter dot com slash brain stuff HSW and face easbook dot com slash brain stuff. Feel free to follow or just pop in to look at the accounts and see how this experiment is going over the next several days. It will be very interesting to see what happens. Do you have any ideas or
suggestions for this podcast? If so, please send me an email at podcast at how stuff works dot com. For more on this and thousands of other topics, go to how stuff works dot com and be sure to check out the brain Stuff blog now on the how stuff Works homepage.