Another “How to” get More Twitter Followers
Twollowers are easy to get with a few tips. To help you figure out how to get them, as usual I have built a step by step process that will allow you to build your list quickly, safely and give you a strong following in a couple weeks that others will want to follow.
#1 Follow others – nobody will know you exist until you follow them. You can stop following them later if their Tweets are annoying or off-color
#2 Follow back – etiquette says that if someone follows you on Twitter you should follow back. This may not happen with the Twitter Whales of the world like @dooce and @theonion but that is because they can’t and wouldn’t be able to reply to all the direct messages that would be coming to them. (You can only DM somone that is following you back.)
#3 Follow 200-400 people a day until you are following 2000 people – Stop at 200 because Twitter requires a percentage of followers to follow you back. If they don’t Twitter assumes your activity may be suspicious (or spam) and may shut off your account.
#4 Un-Follow people who don’t follow back – unless you are really interested in another persons tweets, you may consider un-following someone that doesn’t follow back until you get about 2000 followers.
#5 Follow people that RT (retweet) – this will guarantee that you have a following that will spread word and market your business if you are twittering for marketing purposes
#6 Follow people that are in your geographic area – especially if your business is about gaining local business you may want to follow other businesses that are local or search Twitter for cities or county’s you service
#7 Follow the followers of a whale – If you know a large business that has a large Twitter following and you would wan the same customers you may want to follow the people that follow them to gain access to their viewers.
#8 Use auto follow software – to make life easier following a lot of Twitterers you may consider using software to help
#9 Use software that DM’s people automatically like social oomph after they follow you
#10 Create a nice DM for all your new followers and include a link that will take them to your website or an article of yours
#11 Use a tool like Tweet Deck or Twhirl to follow what is happening on Twitter.
#12 If someone doesn’t follow you back you can unfollow them. (To see who is following you check to see if you can send them a DM (direct message). You can only DM a follower.
Good luck and have fun in the Twitter Sphere. It’s a new world that will make sense to you real soon.
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February 17th, 2010 at 6:05 am
Thanks for this. Many people go for brute force in trying to maximize # of followers, with not much eye on quantity. What’s more, most don’t have much of an idea about other simple, more effective things they can do to make Twitter a far more valuable business tool.
In case it helps, I created a list of some useful ways I use Twitter – like Hashtags for example – http://www.knowledgegenes.com/home.aspx?kgid=10722
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:57 pm
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March 15th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
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