Latest Twitter Craze: Favoriting Tweets To Increase Follower Count

Have you noticed your tweets are being “favorited” more often on Twitter lately? Or are you one of the folks responsible for this favoriting uptick?

If you haven’t noticed it yet, you will. Favoriting tweets is quickly becoming a “thing” on Twitter – and some folks swear it’s more effective than ads when it comes to growing your Twitter following.

We first noticed the surge of favorites thanks to spammers. Ever on the forefront of getting their crap in front of users, spammers are favoriting tweets left and right.

Why?

So you’ll see the notification and naturally take a peek at his/her profile (because who ISN’T curious about someone who just favorited their tweet?).

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