22 Terrific Tips On How To Get More Twitter Followers
Are you looking to get more Twitter followers? We’ve compiled 22 techniques that you can use to build your Twitter following, increasing your social media clout. We’ll teach methods that will build your list while not wasting all of your time on Twitter. The tips will come rapid-fire, so get ready.
The Tips
Share useful links related to your field of interest, with only about 5-10% going back to your site.
Bit.ly has a bookmarklet that you can drag into your browser toolbar that allows you to share a link on Twitter from any page with only two clicks. When you find something useful, share it right away.
Tweet a lot, but only quality tweets. You should tweet at least 4-5 times daily to get a small list, and up to 10 times that for larger lists.
Integrate your RSS feed so that it updates Twitter whenever there is a new entry. You can do this using FriendFeed, TwitterFeed, and multiple other services.
Many people follow others automatically based on keywords. Internet marketing, SEO, affiliates, design, CSS, etc. are all commonly followed keywords. Use those keywords in your tweets.
Tie your website into Twitter. There are varying degrees of this, but you should at least make a link to your Twitter account prominent and above the fold.
Get rid of that default background and brand or customize your Twitter page. Photos of you in particular will get more followers (yes, you’re that beautiful).
Schedule your tweets with socialoomph.com, up to a month in advance. It will allow you to batch your tweets so you don't have to spend all your time on Twitter.
Track the traffic that goes through your links, see what's popular. Bit.ly, owl.ly (using HootSuite), su.pr and others all track statistics. You can even integrate Twitter with your Google Analytics account.
Figure out what's already popular so that you only give out links that people are interested in. You can do that by mining social media sites for links and sites like popurls.com, stufftotweet.com, etc.
Make sure that you don't follow more people than follow you. It allows you to appear more authoritative.
Auto-follow people based on keywords people tweet. SocialOomph lets you do it if you upgrade for $30/month. If you upgrade, you can also batch upload all your tweets to be scheduled rather than doing it one at a time.
Find your competitors and follow their entire list. It's targeted, they're already interested in your subject matter, and they're all in one place.
Figure out who the influencers are in your business or market and begin a relationship with them on Twitter.
Advertise your Twitter account using a paid program. There are many Twitter-related services that allow you to do this and you could always experiment with Google AdWords as well.
Cross-promote your various social media profiles. You get one link in your Twitter profile, which should go to your website if you have one, but you can display other URLs in your background picture. Likewise, you should promote your Twitter profile on your YouTube channel, Facebook, and anywhere else you frequent regularly.
Add your Twitter URL to your email signature.
Participate in discussions on Twitter. Initiate them if you are able. When you get other responding to you, their followers might gain interest as well.
Give away something free but valuable to your followers if they tweet about you. You can be very creative in the way you setup this promotion or contest.
Get a TweetMeme ReTweet Button for your website and customize it to display your Twitter username whenever someone uses it.
When you promote other people’s content, be sure to include their Twitter username in the tweet.
Don’t be afraid to ask people to follow you. If you create a useful resource, be bold and ask!
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