This is a quick experiment on Twitter. The idea is simple. Create a twitter account where the tweets are relevant to the followers and updated regularly. To start with: no promotion or buzz, no tags, 2 updates per days. Then play with some of those settings and see how this influence the number of followers / retweet etc…
Tweeting famous quotes seems like a good of providing the relevant regular content updates. Confucius must be one of the most quoted and less controversial person. So I created the @confucious__says twitter account, wired it to the TweetLater service and populated some tweets.
With the TweetLater service I also added an auto-follow and ‘auto direct message response’ to new followers, to make this a little more interactive.
I hope to make interesting observations on the number of follower, how it does increase (or not) and how often the updates are retweeted.
Similar services are already existing on twitter:
- @justquoted with over 1700 followers and a quote every hour, tagged with #quote and linking back to the site.
- @Quotweet 137 followers and irregular updates.
- @TheBestQuotes over 1200 followers: “We bring you the best, worst, funniest and most inspiring Quotes ever uttered.”
- @Confucius_Says (996 followers)
- @tinyConfucius – the most successfull with 1900 followers have a similar concept
- @KongQiu (140 followers)
Let’s see where this one goes. Next will be to push the feed to Facebook 
As Confucius says: “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”