Six Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers
We all want to increase the number of followers we have on Twitter. Unless you are a celebrity or popular for other reasons besides tweeting, you have to take the slow road to Twitter stardom.
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Here are my top six ways to gain Twitter followers.
1. Tweet Content
People will consider following you if your tweet content is informative, educative, funny or somewhat useful to them. I tend to look at a Twitterer’s stream before I decide to follow them to see if they will give any value.
2. Bio
Twitterers who fill out their bio and explain who they are and what they do gain people’s trust easily. It gives the follower a feeling that they know you already and they can trust you.
3. Be Nice and Human
I find that it’s easier for me to follow twitterers that are warm and friendly. I have had to unfollow a few people because they seemed cold and heartless just from their tweets. People who are all business no fun really don’t impress me.
4. Engage/Interact
This is almost similar to 3 above but I wanted to mention it separately. Everyone loves a conversation or argument of some kind. I have silently fallen in love with some tweeter accounts just because the people behind them are constantly talking to other people. Providing value, jokes, inspiration and many other nice things through engagement.
5. Follow Back
This is one way that can surely gain you followers but I am not a fan of. There are lots of people out there that try to follow back as many people as they can. All you have to do is follow them. Whereas this works, I think it diminishes the value of your stream. I like to see tweets that are relevant and informative to me so I never follow people just because they’ve followed me. I have to mention that there are many people who are on Twitter to send out a message but don’t read that many tweets. This is great for those kinds of people.
6. ReTweet
Everyone loves having their tweet retweeted. If you show people some retweet love, they might show their gratefulness by following you.
Whereas none of these points is a sure way to gain thousands of followers, doing most or all of them is a good start to increasing you follower numbers.
I have observed on my account that if you will tweet some good content then its definitely going to twitter followers! So i pretty much agree with the point no.1 and 6
Yes,
I thin good content is key to getting people to follow you. I look at some streams and I want to read almost everything they post. Those are the people to follow.
Yeah man, I ALWAYS read the stream of the twitterer before following. If they don’t say anything of value then I don’t follow them.
Giveaway a free gift to all those who follow you. This is a great marketing approach that I got from another Twitterer. Every time someone new follows you, an email will generate notifying you. I message each person with a quick personal note and a link to a free downloadable .pdf file on a website. It adds a personal touch and kicks off the start of a great relationship -:)
thanks a lot for your information.
Ramadan Radwan.
It’s great to give something to people who follow you as appreciation and it really can create serious rapport with that person.
Also, you can send out a tweet saying people who follow you will win something. If enough people retweet it, word will get around that you’re giving out something.
Good content and early adoption of news and ideas are critical. In my view twitter is a way to get news and interact about it quickly and efficiently.
I agree with every point, and have had success using all of them.
This is great advice, and I need to lighten up.
Thank you for visiting. And for appreciation.