1. Go to the complimenter’s profile and view the compliment in full size, as its own page. Look at those good things the complimenter said about your project or company or blog, in huge letters. Put your face close to the screen.

2. Lick the screen.

3. Say, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!”

4. Call your mom and read the tweet to her.

5. Send a reply tweet to the complimenter, thanking him/her for the kind words.

6. Strip down to your underwear, play your favorite top 40 song, and jump around on your bed and couch. Imagine yourself in the opening credits of a movie about your amazing life.

7. Go online and buy a little something for yourself—something you’ve been wanting. You deserve it.

8. Go back to the complimenter’s profile and see how many followers that person has. Imagine what that number of people would look like if gathered all together. Imagine yourself crowd-surfing on those people, and them all asking you about your project or company or blog.

9. Take a nap—or make a booty call and take a “nap” with your favorite bed buddy.

10. When you wake up or he/she has gone home, take a shower. Get dressed, and sit in a quiet room. Imagine all your project’s or company’s or blog’s followers. Think about how much they like your project or company or blog, to follow it on Twitter. Think about what they’re doing right now, and think about whether seeing a rando compliment about your project or company or blog pop up in their Twitter stream or as a TweetDeck bubble will really make your followers think, “That project [or company or blog] that I already follow is so awesome! Random people say good things about it all the time, and I’m made aware of all those rando compliments because they all get retweeted! I’m so glad I follow that project [or company or blog]!” If the answer is yes…proceed.

– Jay Gabler

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