Followers and Friends are truly what make twitter so much fun and worth it. And if you are new to twitter, you are most likely wondering how the heck do I go about getting new followers. There are sites and applications popping up every single day hyping the fact they can get you all these followers on twitter and that you will make all this money too. They claim if you pay them for their stupid ass product you will get 1000’s of followers and you can get rich quick.
The one claim I love is the one where some bozo on twitter says, “use this great twitter app to get 10,000 new followers in a week.” And when you look at their profile, they have less then 500 followers themselves. D’oh!!
Collecting all these followers like some claim is not the way to do it. But there are some things you can do to get followers on twitter. And these methods are a lot better then using some lame application.
How do you get followers on Twitter?
- Follows others on twitter But not just everyone. Use some of the search tools, like twitter search to find conversations taking place on twitter in a particular niche you are interested in. See who on twitter is talking about it and see what the conversations are. Take a look at some of the people talking about it and you can see if you want to see if you may want to follow them. Follow them and chances are they will follow you back.
- Be active on twitter and participate in the conversations If you use it they will come. It is true. If you are on twitter and you are not using it, no one is going to follow you back. Some people ask me if there is a magic number of how many times you should post on twitter. Short answer is no. However, if I were to give a client advice on how many times, I would say you should post on twitter at least 3 or 4 times a day. It takes very little effort. And what this does is to give people who are checking you out see that you are active on twitter and that you actually post on twitter and get involved in the conversations going on there.
- Promote others on twitter Make it a point to retweet and promote others on twitter. Even if they don’t follow you, promote them if you are interested in what they are talking about on twitter. Promote them if you think what they are talking about may be useful to those following you. And I would also promote them on twitter if you are reading their blogs. Post on twitter that you are reading a post on their blogs.
- Promote your twitter presence everywhere you are online Don’t just promote your twitter presence on twitter. You should have your twitter ID in your email signature. You should have a way for others to follow you on twitter on your blog. Don’t hide the fact you are on twitter. Make it very clear you want people to follow you on twitter.
- Don’t protect your freaking updates on twitter You are not that important. And if you protect your updates, you are not going to get very many followers. Enough said. Simply don’t protect your updates. Period!
- Promote your twitter presence offline too Do you have a business card? Put your twitter ID on your business card. Basically, if you use any other marketing material, you can put your twitter ID on it.
This list is not exhaustive. I know there are other ways to get followers on twitter. Leave your comments here with your own ways of getting followers. Let’s keep the conversation going.
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