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Increase Your Twitter Followers – 7 Ways To Get And 3 Ways To Keep

Being followed can be very awesome on twitter. So long as your followrs are interested in the same stuff as you..

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

-Tim Scullin

34 Comments »

  • David Fendley said:

    Great article — short and sweet.

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  • Sherri Meyer said:

    Awesome, short and easy to follow. Thanks. I will pass it along!

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  • John Davison said:

    Great info! Thanks. This is great advice for new Twitterers (I think that is a word).

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  • Jide Salu said:

    Useful tips…..

    “I am liking this….”

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  • Michiel Nagtegaal said:

    Thanks! Very nice and short article. I’ll surely pass it along to others! Good luck twittering!

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  • Taylor Dobbs said:

    Thanks! Good stuff. As they said, short and sweet.

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  • RecesionStone said:

    Thanks for focusing me! Still a newbie

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  • BasicMan said:

    great tips, thanks Tim
    cheers, Basicman

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  • Touchfeather said:

    The picture looks like Tingergen. Lovely. Also like the design. ; )

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  • Melody said:

    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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  • Psyshrink said:

    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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  • venkat said:

    ver useful Twitter newbies like me

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  • HDTV Plasma TV said:

    im following you know, thx for the tips !

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  • AJ & DL said:

    Thank you for these great and helpful tips.

    Yours,
    AJ & DL
    http://www.Got2gab.com

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  • Sharon said:

    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:

    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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  • clickktdotcom said:

    Very interesting post. I just following you on twitter

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  • Javanx3d said:

    Great article. Totally good point about useless tweets….isn't that what our facebook status's are for??
    Cheers

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  • abotz said:

    great tips

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  • Underfloor Heating said:

    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:

    Check out 3 Ways To Get Targeted Twitter Followers (For Free!) and Twitter Snipe to automate the process.

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  • almir said:

    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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  • Daniel said:

    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:

    Cheers, glad you enjoyed. I’ll see you on twitter!

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  • Technogati said:

    Hi Tim,
    Really appreciable tips.

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  • Niche said:

    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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  • dalebotha said:

    Hey Tim

    Great article…I likes.

    I'll be using this!

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  • PHP5 Tutorial said:

    Great tips… I knew some of them… the rest are new and happy to learn.

    Regards,
    Suniil

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  • Cholesterol levels said:

    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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  • AutoTweet said:

    “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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  • Techpage said:

    nice tips thanks.excellent advice on twitter.

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  • Siddharth said:

    WOW great post , this would very helpful to me because im a serious tweeter .thanks for the share .

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  • Lee said:

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