The more followers, the more reputation you get. I got really nice stats using free tools like FollowLike or LinkCollider to get followers, retweets and likes. With 135,000 new twitter members everyday, twitter is an excellent good source of traffic when it used properly. I have 2,2k followers on my Twitter account where I promote all sort of online marketing business, tools and ideas. About a tweet you post, you can easily rank it to #1 for a few days in twitter search using #hashtags, a professional image, and an attractive text. Here is one my recent tweet's stats: I've got 4 new sign-ups and 1 active member using this method. I applied some twitter lessons tips that I've learned from ebook and sites and I can see that it gives nice results without any money spent The most important thing about twitter is to stay active, regularly tweet at least 1 post per day or per 2 days and finally have a good relationship with your followers. I think that social media traffic is one of the best source of traffic when used properly.