Last week a reporter from one of Sweden’s largest news papers, Expressen, called me and asked me a few questions about Twitter and my Twitter account.
He was working on an article about how companies and politicians are adopting Twitter to extend their reach to potential customers and voters using this very popular medium.
I’m not tweeting for a company and I’m not a politician, so I guess I was chosen to be interviewed because I probably have the most followers on Twitter in Sweden.
The article (the translated version - weird translation though - is available here) talks about companies (Zappos, Chevrolet etc.) that uses Twitter to reach out to new customers and how Barack Obama used Twitter in his presidential campagin. The article also covers a little blurb about me, my Twitter account and how I attracted 23,000+ followers.
If you’re curious about the details on how I got all these followers, be sure to read my earlier blog post ‘10,000+ followers in less than a month - Yeah, it’s possible!‘.
























6 comments so far leave a comment ↓
Junior
July 16th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
I agree. I have nearly 15,000 followers in my Twitter account as well. It is a great tool to stay in touch with people.
Junior
July 17th, 2009 at 3:37 am
I too have a lot of followers, about 85,000 across multiple accounts. I luv twitter for both fun and money~and it is an excellent tool for sharing ideas.
Martin Melin
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I have a good few thousand followers, One of may accounts i use to reach new customers the other ones i use for social purposes
kerwin
September 20th, 2009 at 5:48 am
cool thanks a lot for sharing this is good info and i have wondered all this time how were those people get such followers without being a celebrity. :P
@SHANESEPiCB1TCH
March 29th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Grattis! Men jag tror du och Robyn har ungefär lika många followers… Fast iofs, dt var ett tag sedan jag kollade hennes twitter (stalkar in henne). :]
AmericanVietnamese
July 11th, 2010 at 2:32 am
Cool that you got an interview with Expressen but too bad it is in Swedish! I would like to have a read…