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Twitter Ally is designed to be the best in search and follow for Twitter, and the search options available through Twitter Ally also surpass those of any other similar software:

Product	Twitter Search	User’s Followers	User’s Followings	Google Twitter	Twellow Bios	Twellow Categories	From File
Twitter Ally
Hummingbird
Twitter FriendAdder	Manual	Manual	Manual
The Twitter Bot
TweetAdder
TweetWhistle

Want to know how Twitter Ally compares with it’s nearest competitors? Twitter Ally has the most advanced following and unfollowing engine, with more features and available searches than any other Twitter adder:

Product	Price	Unlimited Accounts	Script?	Unfollow Delay	API Bypass	Proxies	VIP List	Auto Updates	Stat Graphing
Twitter Ally	Options					Dynamic
Hummingbird	$97
Twitter FriendAdder	$50					Manual
The Twitter Bot	~$27					Manual
TweetAdder	$55-188	Varies with price
TweetWhistle	$39.95

You may be wondering what the main advantages of Twitter Ally are over similar software. Rest assured that Twitter Ally has been designed to outdo it’s competitors where it really counts:

Twitter Ally is a Web-based Script

Because it runs entirely in the background on a superfast webservers, Twitter Ally will not slow down your web browsing or chew up your data usage like other adders. (If you have a number of accounts you would be surpised to find out how much this can be, and for anyone without unlimited data and fast download speed this can make a HUGE difference.) Actually, you don’t even have to be there or leave your computer on… Heck, you don’t even need a computer to run this thing – only access to one to set it up!

Queue Unlimited Twitter Accounts

Sure, other adders may support unlimited accounts, but you still have to run them one at a time, wait until they’re finished, then run them again for the next account. Twitter Ally forgoes all that and queues all your account processing automatically for you. This saves you soooo much time because it means no waiting around or continually checking your accounts to see what you need to do next.

Queue Unlimited Pre-defined Searches

Again, with most adders you can only do one search per one account at a time. But with Twitter Ally, once you define a search it will be queued and run day after day without any further effort, freeing up time for other things… like actually writing Tweeps! You can set it up to search for keyword terms, friends or followers of specific users, or even search third party sites listing Twitter users by category. Plus, you can also prioritize these searches so that you’ll get the maximum targeted results from each search.

Twitter API Bypass and Fallback

Twitter Ally bypasses the Twitter API request interface (which limits the number of requests you can make per hour.) This allows Twitter Ally to process many more requests than programs that rely on the API. It also allows you to run any other applications that need to use the Twitter API without affecting them. Plus, if for some reason it’s required, Twitter Ally will fallback to using the API, making it more stable than programs that can’t.

Surpasses other Network Adders

In case you were wondering, this works far better than using Myspace or Facebook ‘friend adders’ (which I’ve also tested extensively.) Besides the fact that you can contact far more people in a shorter amount of time, Twitter is a far more direct because it’s all about messaging, and welcome messages are far more common and unobtrusive so they aren’t considered spam. And unlike other social networks, you don’t have to worry about entering those annoying Captcha codes all the time!

While the idea of Twitter Ally is fairly simple – to gain new followers – the actual implementation of this idea is quite complex and has taken me months of programming to make it truly workable. Certainly there are plenty of free scripts out there that will perform simple functions such as updating your Twitter status or sending direct messages, but there are only few commercial solutions for actually building up your Twitter followers in a viable way, and Twitter Ally has been designed to be the best of them of all, providing both flexibility and reliability.

Account Vetting Process

Like the popular online tool Twitter Karma, Twitter Ally will search through your existing friendships and stop following those who haven’t followed you back. This initial process is necessary to allow you to maximize the number of new users you can follow each day without reaching the Twitter follow limits too soon.

Unlike Twitter Karma however, Twitter Ally performs and records a stage by stage analysis which means it will work for any account size. (If you’ve tried to use Twitter Karma you’ll know it ‘freezes’ when your account is around 10000 followers. Either the data is too much for it or it uses up all your Twitter API requests.) This kind of vetting is often needed especially for large accounts, but luckily with Twitter Ally it’s really only needed once per account (and not for new accounts) to ‘clear the slate’ for the regular optimal following and unfollowing process…

Optimal Following Process

Twitter Ally will search out an unlimited number of keyword terms for any of the search types (or friends/followers of another account) that you specify for an unlimited number of accounts and follow the maximum per day (unless a cap is specified.) By running throughout the day and looping through each account, you can add more users than you would say in a single instance because as more people follow you back this increases the amount of people you can follow.

Twitter Ally’s innovative MultiSearch function also allows for monitoring and adding from large keyword term lists by cycling through search terms while still keeping a record of found and added users and previously searched pages. This helps you to find targeted users from a wide variety of sources and keywords at once. You can even loop through these search terms cyclically, consecutively or randomly.

Optimal Unfollowing Process

Twitter Ally keeps a record of all the newly followed users you’ve added, and later will unfollow them if they don’t follow you back within a specified time period (default is 3 days.) This feature allows you to build unlimited targeted accounts in the shortest time period while still allowing those you follow time to follow you back. Without this feature you are limited to either removing users every day OR waiting for longer periods to allow users to follow you back. Neither is an optimum solution. These removed users are recorded and won’t be added again in your searches, preventing you from being seen as a spammer ‘garnering attention’ (as users are notified by email when you follow them.)

Extra Feature Processes

In addition to the optimal following and unfollowing processes, Twitter Ally includes some extra features. Firstly, the ability to define an extra followup message that is sent to new followbacks after a chosen number of days (sent when there is an available direct message quota) means extra traffic to your sites. You can also define VIPs that are never removed from your accounts. Twitter Ally sends notifications of account processing and data backups on the basis you specify (eg. daily), auto-updates to the latest version, and provides detailed graphical statistics on your account and search pages to give an at-a-glance activity summary that helps you better to refine your searches.

Twitter Ally’s simple and intuitive interface allows for easy management of all your accounts. You can add or update accounts or custom searches with the click of a button, for example adding new keywords as you come up with them.

After following the step-by-step installation instructions (takes about half an hour), Twitter Ally runs in the background around the clock processing your accounts periodically throughout the day.

Twitter Ally also gives you at-a-glance information, graphical statistics and onpage help bubbles, keeps detailed logs of all it’s activities, and emails you summary reports and data backups on a regular basis.

Here’s a screenshot of the Twitter Ally interface:

You can also click here to access a running demo version.
(Buttons are disabled, this is just to show the interface.)

Plus..! Twitter Ally now also has a pared down interface for mobiles that you can access from any device with an internet browser. Go travelling, let Twitter Ally run and still manage accounts!

I think the best part of Twitter Ally is the ability to find and add Twitter users automatically from a variety of search sources.

This allows you to track down contacts with no effort that would otherwise be hard or tedious to find. Let’s face it, with the millions of Twitter users out there, not everyone can be found everywhere, so it’s important to be able to find them where they are. Twitter Ally will find them:

Keyword search of Twitter conversations.
Friends or Followers of any Twitter user.
Google keyword search of Twitter pages.
Twellow keyword search of user bios.
Whole Twellow pages category lists.
… and more as Twitter Ally grows …

Not only that, but with Twitter Ally’s innovative MultiSearch feature, you can easily track and cycle through large keyword lists or users for any of these search types.

This is especially handy for continually monitoring the Twitter conversation stream for multiple terms in your niche at once – whether of large or small result volume. To do this manually you’d need to monitor them every week (as Twitter only stores a week’s search data) – a tedious if not impossible task. But so easy with Twitter Ally!

Basically, Twitter Ally is a fully automated contact builder for Twitter.

It has been designed to grow targeted audience of followers for you for multiple Twitter accounts, all in a natural and organic way, taking over the task of tracking down and following new targeted Twitter users and leaving you more time for conversations.

Simply define your accounts and searches, and Twitter Ally will work ceaselessly and tirelessly in the background on your behalf building your followers for all your accounts exactly how you like, hour after hour, day after day.

As anyone with Twitter experience will tell you, the secret to building masses of followers is to follow new people!

Twitter Ally also automatically manages the task of unfollowing users who don’t reciprocate your following of them within a timeframe you specify. This allows you to follow new users and avoid the following limits imposed by Twitter to avoid abuse while still operating within Twitter’s terms of service.

Of course there’s a lot more to Twitter Ally and why it was created, but this should give you the basic idea. Yet make no mistake, even these seemingly simple tasks are really time-consuming, and to do them manually would take you hours of work every single day.