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I’m sure many of you know who Jeremy Shoemaker is. For all intents and purposes he is one of the most widely known and followed affiliate marketers on the web. He uses his outside of the box types of viral marketing to increase his traffic and generate more buzz to his website.

He has run a few “Follow Me for Free Stuff” type contests on his blog for his Twitter Account that have been quite successful. I even tried one similar to his a few months back and was surprised at the success that I had gained from this type of contest. I started out at only 25 followers and got all the way up to 250 in just 2 weeks.

Recently, Jeremy has decided to drop all but 27 of the people he was following on Twitter. I asked Jeremy for an interview about this situation and he graciously accepted. Here is what he had to say.

eSpire: What is your reasoning for dropping all but the 27 people you are currently following on Twitter?

Shoemoney:My account had become unusable to actually follow people.

eSpire:How has Twitter helped you to continue to grow your online presence?

Shoemoney:It hasn’t really helped me grow my presence so much as its helped me reach people inside companies and stuff like that.

eSpire: What are your keys to success in keeping in touch with your following on Twitter?

Shoemoney:I honestly don’t really keep that in touch with my following on twitter. If people find what I say interesting then they will follow. Otherwise they wont.

eSpire:Do you have any plans for what you are going to do next in your effort to continue to grow your online presence through Twitter?

Shoemoney: I’ve actually seen the green light after talking with GaryV @garyvee about twitter. The days of regular guys like myself or Gary being in the top 100 people on twitter are over. Now you have Ashton Kutcher, Shaq, CBS NEWS, coming in and I think within the next year big brands and name will completely dominate twitter.

I will continue to use twitter as a communication tool but my days as being a leader in the space are numbered, if not already passed.

END INTERVIEW

I also asked Jeremy what his keys to success for in gaining as many followers as he had thus far on Twitter. He replied, “Write interesting stuff people want to read.” That is the main “Twitter Gem” that the very popular Jeremy Shoemaker had to offer. Which leads me to believe that he is a strong proponent of the idea that Twitter is a very basic tool used for basic reasons, and that anyone can reach his level of success on Twitter, as long as they are talking about what others want to talk about. Again, I just wanted to thank Shoemoney® for the interview if you would like to follow him on twitter you can do so @shoemoney.