Increase Your Twitter Followers – 7 Ways To Get And 3 Ways To Keep
In most places in the world I have been to, someone following you typically is a bad thing..
But on twitter being followed is brilliant!
Shocking truths@! click here to read about why being followed is so dang brilliant!
ok so..
I have scoped out the web and it seems there are some sweet strategies to get more followers.
Here are my top 7
1. Decide on your ‘audience’. [the people that will follow you]
- What topics you want to share/know more about.
- aka what you are an expert/will be an expert in..
2. Follow big twits of your topic and their followers. [big twits = 5000+ followers]
- You will start to build your own twit community.
- About 30%of people you follow will start following you.
- Other people will follow the big twits, and their followers… that’s you :)
- Find your big twits at wefollow.com
3. Be a useful twitterer.
- We don’t care about what you’re eating or if you have showered yet..
4. Post links that might be interesting to others.
- Make sure people know what they are linking to.
5. Tweet regularly but don’t clutter.
- Too many tweets will dilute the effect of any good tweets.
6. Write some articles about your topic and link to your twitter..
- This will help give you a more defined group of followers.
7. Start a blog and link to your twitter profile (Here’s mine).
- Then you can tweet about your blogs and people who follow you will actually be interested..
3 Ways to keep Followers
1. Follow the tips above
2. Don’t be a robot, be a person.
- People communicate with others and build relationships…
3. Follow those who follow you
- We all want 2-way communication right?
See you on twitter
Great article — short and sweet.
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Awesome, short and easy to follow. Thanks. I will pass it along!
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Great info! Thanks. This is great advice for new Twitterers (I think that is a word).
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Useful tips…..
“I am liking this….”
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Thanks! Very nice and short article. I’ll surely pass it along to others! Good luck twittering!
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Thanks! Good stuff. As they said, short and sweet.
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Thanks for focusing me! Still a newbie
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great tips, thanks Tim
cheers, Basicman
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The picture looks like Tingergen. Lovely. Also like the design. ; )
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Keeping followers depends on who you are..if you're a celebrity you could talk about dog poop and still keep followers..but for the average joe..not so much.
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very good tips–however, not everyone that follows you, you necessarily want to follow back–especially if these folks like to clutter!
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ver useful Twitter newbies like me
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im following you know, thx for the tips !
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Thank you for these great and helpful tips.
Yours,
AJ & DL
http://www.Got2gab.com
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I agree with not tweeting too much, those that do I often un-follow, they need to get a life, or stop using the auto-pilot techy tools, be real please!
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Tim Scullin Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I use auto schedule tweets so that I can send interesting topic out one at a time instead of spamming your twitter stream. Other than that I like to be real! ha If you want to schedule your tweets check out Tweet Later.
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Very interesting post. I just following you on twitter
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Great article. Totally good point about useless tweets….isn't that what our facebook status's are for??
Cheers
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great tips
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I want to increase my number of followers. I"m willing to follow all of them in return, but I don't want to just randomly add people. Besides searching for people by keyword, does anyone have a faster way to do it?
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Tim Scullin Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Check out 3 Ways To Get Targeted Twitter Followers (For Free!) and Twitter Snipe to automate the process.
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nice article it was very brief and precise. I certainly agree with you you need to be a person because by being a robot people are going to think your a spammer.
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very good article. Currently building up my twitter following based on these principles. Thanks! Found your blog through twitter btw.
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Tim Scullin Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Cheers, glad you enjoyed. I’ll see you on twitter!
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Hi Tim,
Really appreciable tips.
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Agree with you on the don't clutter thing
Was following a chap who tweeted about everything. I'd log in and my home page would be full of tweets by him. Soon stopped following him
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Hey Tim
Great article…I likes.
I'll be using this!
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Great tips… I knew some of them… the rest are new and happy to learn.
Regards,
Suniil
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You should target two types of individuals for your account. Individuals who are following cleaning-based Twitter accounts (offering cleaning advice) and Twitter accounts focused on your particular region.
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“Don’t be a robot, be a person.” Excellent advice.
While it is Ok to schedule tweets and automate some of your processes, it is not Ok to just shotgun your tweets to everyone and everywhere.
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nice tips thanks.excellent advice on twitter.
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