How to grow your Twitter followers is one of the biggest problems faced by People who join Twitter. Twitter can be used in many ways but if you are going to use Twitter as a marketing tool then having a large following is a must. Imagine having 2000 twitter followers and 10% of them clicking your twitter updates and coming to your sales page. That is 200 instant visitors to your web page.Imaging few of them retweeting your tweet. Now think of having 20000 followers and you can see what kind of an impact it has on your online business. If you think getting that amount of Twitter followers is impossible then you are hugely mistaken. There are many ways to grow your Twitter follower and lest look at few of them. I'm sure there are many other ways so feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section.
Tweeting useful information
Whatever your niche if you are providing valuable useful content people will follow you. Because Twitter shortens url's you can easily trick people and direct them to your affiliate page or whatever , this might get you a few initial sales but soon people will start ignoring your links or worse yet unfollow you. I'm not saying that you shouldn't promote your products or affiliate links , but don't spam your time line with those. As a practice I try to tweet at least 10 useful article per day. Since I'm looking for an Twitter audience related to making money blogging they are mostly focused on SEO , making money online , affiliate marketing etc. Once people start to see that you are providing valuable information they will follow your and start recommending you to others.
Promote your Twitter profile thorough other online mediums
If you have a blog , a digg account , a stumbleupon account be sure to link to your Twitter profile from them. More people coming to your profile means more chance of people following you.
Have a nice profile picture and a Bio
Twitter feeds are syndicated in many places , when you start tweeting your updates will appear on many places. If they like your tweet they might click through and take a look at your profile. If you have the default twitter profile picture and an uninteresting bio then you are loosing followers. Take the time to upload a nice picture of you have a good looking bio. It is also important to have some tweets visible in your time line. If someone follow me I usually follow him back , only reasons I don't follow is if he has very few updates ( less than 5 ) or if the time line is spammed with affiliate products.
Be consistent with your updates
Don't start doing around 20 tweets in 10 minutes. Keep in mind that your followers are following others as well. There are many Twitter clients out there that lets you create groups and your goal is to get into that "someone important" or "someone useful" group. Doing many tweets in a short period of time may frustrate your followers and get you into the ignored group. It is up to you to find the right balance , more you tweet more chance of getting new followers but be mindful of your existing followers.
Be helpful and be conversational
Try to reply to questions , say thank you to new followers and retweet some of your friends links. As your numbers grow this might become difficult but try to active as much as possible. If people see that you are genuinely looking to help them they will keep on following and recommending you.
I hope you will find this tips useful in growing your Twitter account , in a future article I will show you how grow your twitter followers automatically and how to viraly spread your Tweets and get more followers. You can follow me on Twitter where I share more great articles.
Any advice on how to get more followers is beneficial for me! I seem to be following more people then are following me. I think you give some great advice on how to remain consistent instead of spamming 20 updates in 10 minutes.
One point I would like to make is as follows,
If Just because you have 2000 followers doesn’t mean the people you’re following does so be careful how many spammy updates you do who knows you might be the only one updating information on their page.
I published your article at blog engage! Thanks for submitting!
@bbrian017,
you are correct , just having 2000 followers is not enough. Most are following you to get a follow back so its pretty hard to get a loyal following. But Twitter is a good way to share those useful links and as long as I provide value I think I can build up a loyal following.
Thank you publishing my article at blogengage
Love your post on twitter. I picked up the tip about linking my digg and stumbleupon accout to my twitter id.
@Mary,
, be sure to share your strategies
glad you found the article useful
Love your post on twitter. I picked up the tip about linking my digg and stumbleupon accout to my twitter id.
I believe that if you dont have a following then as said above, you dont get people to read what you have to say. Even if you only get 10%, then the more followers you have the better. dont you agree??
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from what this site says it increases your following of tweeters over a period of time.
I believe that if you dont have a following then as said above, you dont get people to read what you have to say. Even if you only get 10%, then the more followers you have the better. dont you agree??
to increase your followers and get a large list of followers is a site called http://www.masstwt.com.
from what this site says it increases your following of tweeters over a period of time.