Simple Tips To Get More Followers On Twitter
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Simple Tips To Get More Followers On Twitter
Twitter Followers
Having a lot of followers on Twitter essentially means a better way for users to share and communicate information. A user who typically has a lot of followers can have their “15 minutes” of fame through online sharing, the problem is that acquiring more followers on Twitter is easier said than done, here are a few pointers and tricks to gain more followers.
First off once you start following people be sure not to follow a large quantity of people at once, if you follow too many users in a short period of time your account will get flagged for spam.
Start by following people in your area or that already have acquired a large group of followers. Also be sure to follow people who have similar inters in your niche, if you are someone who enjoys real estate you should follow other Realtors, similar interests is a great way to gain followers and notability on Twitter
- Follow everyone who follows you. It might seem counterintuitive to do this when you’re focused on gaining followers, but it’s a good practice because:
- People who notice that you didn’t follow them back might unfollow you.
- When you follow back, some people might respond to you publicly, which will give you some added exposure to their followers.
- If you’re worried that you won’t be able to keep up with that many people, you’re right. Once you’re following over 100 people, it’ll be pretty much impossible to read all their updates. You’ll become more selective in who/what you read.
- Regularly unfollow people who haven’t followed you back. This is especially important to avoid follow limits. The first limit you’ll probably hit is when you’ve followed 2,000 people. You won’t be able to follow any more until you have 2,000 followers. As you follow and get followed, it’ll become time-consuming to “clean up” your list (unfollow people who aren’t following you back). There are services that can help you with that:
Quantity
- If you’re just looking to crank up your numbers, these easy techniques will go a long way in a short time. There’s a lot of clicking but not a lot of thinking involved.
- Consider creating a different Twitter account. There’s the possibility that by making a concentrated effort to boost your follower numbers, your account might get suspended (for being a spammer). If your main Twitter account is very valuable to you (it’s your full name, a distinct brand, etc.) you might want to create another one to use these techniques with.
- Follow people who follow spammers.
- Wait until a spam follower follows you. Spam followers will have 1,000 + people they are following but only 5 to 150 followers in return.
- Follow everyone who follows the spam follower. Those are likely to be people who autofollow or who are following in return in order to boost their own follow count.
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4Use Twitterholic. Pick major cities, states, countries like Chicago or India and follow anyone with who is following over 200 more people than are following them back.
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5Follow people who autofollow.
- Follow everyone on the list at SocialNewsWatch in order to get an easy 237 new followers.
- “Twitter celebrities” are also likely to follow you back automatically. Like spammers, they’ll be following over a thousand, sometimes tens of thousands of people, but unlike spammers, they’ll have the same number of (or more) followers. You’ll stumble upon such accounts during your Twitter travels (e.g. when they are retweeted by someone you’re following) but you can also do an Internet search for “most popular Twitter accounts” or “popular Tweeters”.
- Twitter Enhancement Services
- Twitter Enhancement Services allow you to quickly gain real followers, safely, ethically and with guaranteed results. Companies, such as Devumi will charge as little as $29 to actively promote your Twitter Profile using both Social Media and traditional marketing to naturally deliver thousands followers within hours.
Quality
- Just because you have a lot of followers doesn’t mean you’ll get a lot of readership or interaction. If you want followers who will actually read, respond to, and retweet your tweets, use these techniques instead of (or in addition to) the ones above. These require more time and effort.
- Make a good avatar. The simplest and most personal way to go is a photograph of your face looking straight into the lens–no funny angles, and nothing else in the photo. Crop it into a square, but don’t shrink it down; you want people to be able to click on it and see the larger version.
- Write up a good bio. It’s important that people know who you are and what you’re interested in. Selective followers will read your bio before deciding whether to follow you back.
- Tweet well and tweet often. Selective followers will also glance at your most recent tweets to see if you’re worth following.
- Be interesting, transparent and provocative. Share intimate news about your life. If you can spin a good story, you might get readers addicted to the daily dramas of your everyday life.
- Post interesting links. Find the man bites dog story. Search the web
voraciously for a nugget you can spin into a good tweet. Guy Kawasaki,
who has over 100,000 followers, goes as far as paying employees to find
buzzworthy stories for him to tweet. There are many websites you can
scour for prime Tweeting material, such as:
- Sites specifically geared towards providing Tweet-worthy material, like stufftotweet.com
- Social bookmarking sites, like StumbleUpon and Digg
- News sites such as CNN and the New York Times
- Post multimedia. Switching things up with pictures, videos, and even sound clips here and there can make your posts more fun to follow.
- Repeat your most popular tweets. Do a search for your Twitter name and observe which of your updates get the most replies and retweets. Then repeat those updates a few times, 8-12 hours apart. You’ll reach more people this way because you’re more likely to catch the attention of people who missed your updates the first time around. People “tune in” to Twitter at various times during the day (and night). If you get complaints about repeated tweets, you might want to slow down, but you probably won’t.
- Ask people to retweet you. Some, perhaps many of your followers might not be familiar with the nature of retweeting. But being retweeted pushes your exposure to the edges of your Twitter network. Simply adding “Please retweet” or “Please RT” to the end of some of your posts here and there (not all the time) can remind your followers that you want them to spread the word for you.
- Search for tweets with keywords related to your topics of interest. Let’s say you’re a metalhead. Look for people who mention your favorite metal groups. Reply to their tweets and then follow them. Your response will show them that you have something in common, and make it more likely that they’ll follow you back. Better yet, retweet them if the content is good. Not only are you forming connections with other Twitter users, but you’re also bringing good content to your followers.
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7Use hashtags. This is another way to connect to people with similar interests. Add hashtags to your tweets, and also create tweets based on hashtags that are popular on Twitter at the time (you can see these as “trending topics” on the right hand side of your Twitter home page).
Hashtags are a tool that you can use in Twitter to track twits, tweets, and anything ‘twitable’. According to a Twitter wiki, “Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. They were developed as a means of creating groupings within Twitter.
- Put up “Follow me on Twitter” links on your blog, social networking profiles, etc.. That way, people who are already interested in what you’re doing have a chance to follow you.
- Follow people who follow people who are like you. If you’re a tarot fanatic, for example, find another tarot fanatic who has many followers. Follow those followers. If it’s clear in your bio and your tweets that you’re a tarot enthusiast, they’re more likely to follow you.
- Make an effort to Keep Your Followers on Twitter. People who actually keep up with the tweets of the people they follow will regularly re-evaluate who they follow, and will unfollow whoever they feel is not worth following anymore.
Find People Near You!
You can search for people near you on Twitter, Tweepz allows you to search for a geographical location such as a city/state. Finding people near you is a great way to connect and get more followers that may be interested in your services/products if that is what you’re trying to promote, if not people still enjoy connecting with others near them.
