While watching the video, I opened a new window and visited his current Twitter page. He had over 40,000 followers! That did it! As of that morning, I had about 250 followers, and I had struggled to find them. Crosby claimed I could increase my following by 16,000 within 90 days, using FREE tools to automate the process. The “magic” was in how those tools were combined to send a steady stream of useful content through one’s Twitter account, attracting people to follow, then having another free service automatically follow them back. Voila! Automated growth.

I couldn’t resist. I paid for the training – I think it was a paltry $27 or something like that, and I spent an hour watching Crosby actually set up the entire process, click-by-click. After each step, I paused the video and performed the step myself. This continued until the end of the training – approximately an hour later.

Just prior to launching Crosby’s “Twitter Traffic Machine,” I captured a screenshot of my Twitter page, which showed 258 followers. During this past week, I’ve made very few Tweets myself, mostly humorous one-liners, but my “Machine” has been averaging one or two Tweets every hour, around the clock, all related to my interests (see my Twitter profile at @Danorator for details).

This morning – one week later – I checked my Twitter account and saw over 1,147 followers (click an image to view full, dated screenshots). How many of these new friends are guitar or jazz enthusiasts, or dominoes players, I have no idea yet, but the point of the exercise was to prove Crosby’s assertion that Twitter followings could be attracted through an automated process of sharing content with the world.

As this auto-pilot syndication process continues, the rate of growth should steadily increase, since many of my Tweets will be Re-tweeted to my followers’ followers. Crosby’s claim, therefore, should be easily achieved.

Could I have figured out this Twitter “magic” myself? Of course, but it might’ve taken months to put it all together. Crosby says it took him over 2,000 hours of research to perfect the “Machine.” My experience proves that his time investment was worth it, and saves me both time and effort to build my social networks.

One word of caution about any automated follower-gathering system: If the traffic that matters is highly targeted, make sure that the “following” being generated is properly filtered. Having a huge mass of friends isn’t the point — having friends that trust you and like you, and want what you have to offer, is the point. In the end, the person with the most sales wins, even if someone else has the most Tweeters!

You can learn more about Crosby’s Twitter Traffic Machine here, and can follow him at @BillCrosby on Twitter.