One of the methods of attracting more followers on Twitter is to make a bold and easily noticeable statement that you follow back. It’s that little extra added to the profile description that might seem like a good idea, but really isn’t. Why? Because of how it makes you look!

First, it says you’re in the habit of following spammers. Because there are spammers adding you to their followed list every day and saying you follow everyone back (automatically or not) will just draw more to you. As everyone fears spammers, your embracing them might trigger the spamming flag in some people’s minds when analyzing you as a person they might follow.

It also says you really don’t care who you follow! It does not matter if they are tweeting what interests you and if your retweeting them would bring value to your followers. This might lead your potential followers to believe you have little consideration for them, you just add people as they come and with no real interest or plan in mind.

It shows you’re only interested in numbers, not in conversations or relationships. You cannot possibly be interested in building meaningful relationships if you really don’t care who you follow back! All it takes for them to be of interest to you is their following you first! Meaningless tweets are not hard to find on Twitter, it’s the meaningful encounters that people area really looking for!

We all want lots of followers on Twitter. Having 5 followers or having 5000 is clearly not the same. But how many people follow you is a lot less important than the quality of people following you. The value they provide, what they bring to the table, how they can help and how you can help them are more relevant aspects to monitor than just numbers!

I am honored to announce that Lillie Ammann of A Writer’s Word, An Editor’s Eye has awarded a Premio Dardos to this PR and Marketing blog. Put in slightly different words, I won a Premio Dardos Award and I am extremely proud of it

What’s the Premio Dardos Award?

Premio Dardos means “prize darts” in Spanish. It is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing.

What do you do once you’ve received one?

There are some rules to be followed:

• First, accept the award by posting it on your blog along with the name of the person that has granted the award and link to her blog.
• Second pass the award to another 15 blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgment, remembering to contact each of them to let them know they have been selected for this award.

Who am I passing it to?

After a lot of pondering, I’ve chosen 15 bloggers, listed below in alphabetical order. There are are few bloggers that also deserved this award, but I chose to only select blogs written in English, and theirs were in Romanian. There are more who I religiously read and deserve it, but Lillie was faster than me And finally, there’s a 15 bloggers limit, or I would have copy/pasted all the blogs I have in my Google reader.

1. Alex Cristache – Blogsessive
2. Andrew – Good Honest Dollar
3. Barbara Rozgonyi – WiredPRWorks
4. “CR” Cataunya Ransom – Mosnar Communications Blog
5. Daniel Secareanu – Daniel Secareanu, Strategic Marketing & Business Development
6. Deb S. – Media by Sistrunk
7. Ian Lurie – Conversation Marketing
8. Janelle Vadnais – Create Business Growth
9. Jonathan Fields – Awake@the Wheel
10. Phil Butler – Phil Butler Unplugged
11. Robyn McMaster – Brain Based Biz
12. Rodger D. Johnson – Your PR Guy
13. Steven Snell – Traffikd
14. Susan Gunelius – Women on Business
15. Tadeusz Szewczyk a.k.a Tad Chef – SEO 2.0

Later Edit: I apologize for the initial error – Premio Dardos is Spanish, not Italian.