Businesses, Celebrities and even presidents use Twitter for different purposes, some use it to improve their reputation, some use it to increase brand awareness and sales and some use it to increase traffic to their websites.
To successfully achieve this goals you need plenty of Twitter followers and if you are not a famous person like a celebrity or a sportsperson then you will have a hard time getting followers.
To automate this tedious process you can use Twitter software like TweetAdder and HummingBird.
These software scan profiles and tweets of users for keywords specified by you and automatically follows them for you.
These software do lots of other things like follow users according to geographical locations, unfollow users who haven't followed you back, automatically send direct messages to new users etc.
Although this is a very efficient way to find targeted twitter followers people started abusing these tools which led to lots of Twitter accounts getting suspended.
Still there are lots of people who buy these software and complain later about getting there accounts banned.
But there are plenty of people who successfully use these software to build there followers, so it this a problem with the users or is this a problem in the software? The answer is both.
Following a large number of users in a short time, often following and unfollowing users, frequently posting affiliate links with no other useful tweets or tweeting the same message repeatedly are some of the things that can get you banned and most of the automated software has the capability to all those things.
This is where quality software comes into play, some of them have built-in safety features like giving you a warning when your following too many users too soon, automatically filtering users who you have previously followed and unfollowed etc.
If you use a software that doesn't have these features you might get your Twitter account banned for good.
Even if you have a good software with built-in safety features how you use it is also important in maintaining a healthy Twitter account.
If you use the schedule functionality available with these software and tweet an affiliate link every ten minutes then it could be considered as spam.
If you specify too many unrelated keywords to target your followers then they might start blocking you and many people blocking your account is another reason to get your account suspended.
If you are looking to automatically grow your Twitter followers using software it is important to understand that both the software and how you use the software plays a part in successfully doing that.
Don't be impatient when using the software, try to simulate normal human behavior and you can increase followers while maintaining a healthy account.