10 Ways to Get More Twitter Followers!
Apr
1) Follow users with their own picuture, as individual people follow you back more often than companies. Don’t follow logos or people who haven’t even bothered to upload an image.
2) Add a follow me twitter badge at the end of each blog post. When I started doing this, I immediately started getting 50-100 new followers every day.
3) Add a ‘retweet’ button at the end of each post.
4) Follow users who have a low follow to follower ratio, close to 1:1, as there is a much higher chance they will follow you back.
5) Keep your own follower ratio close to 1:1 as well. A lot of users look at your profile first and don’t follow people that they don’t think will follow back. If you have 1000 followers and only follow 50 people back, you will turn off a lot of potential new followers.
6) Follow people during Monday to Friday 9-5 when people tend to be on twitter more. (In your local area, and if you are following users from your area)
7) Avoid insignificant tweets like, ‘LOL’ and ‘Thanks’. That is fastest way to lose followers. Use quitter to keep track of what updates cause you to lose the most followers and try not to repeat it. Bottom line is try to ‘add value’ to the conversations instead of adding to the noise. When responding to someone try to repeat part of the original conversation, so other can understand what you’re talking about.
Example: Instead of just saying ‘thanks’, you could say, ‘thanks, bit.ly looks like a cool tool, I’ll be sure to check it out’
8) Try to get Re-tweeted. The more times you are re-tweeted, the more your username shows up on other users updates, which will get you more followers. Have a look at what others are Re-tweeting and tweet similar stuff, or simply RT the RT stuff. Check out 15 ways to get Retweeted
9) The the most obvious way to get more followers…Follow more people. Around 50% will follow you back even if your tweets suck. So if you follow 1000, 500 should follow you back with 1-2 days.
10) And if these free methods don’t work fast enough for you, try one of the automated following tools out there like, BruteForce ($97) BruteForceSEO ($1 trial) or HummingBird ($197). (Reviews of these products coming soon…)
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Very good points – even if some of them may seem logical, they are all worth repeating. Particularly point #7 – come on, people! Make your Tweets valuable to all!
Hey thanks for stopping by Gina! I used to tweet about way too much random crap and now I only try to add content.
Great tips ProTwit! Retweet’d
Good info for to have if trying to gather more twitterers!
Great tips! Thanks for sharing! I have re-tweeted this post.
So Twitter is awesome for Taking traffic to you website . It is very
simple to setup and its a fun positive way to keep in contact with
people.
this is an awesome tip thank you for letting me in this for for getting me started okay thank you Twitter is n awesome website to get followers and people to your websites thank you
Thanks for the tips- how do you add a follow me twitter badge?
I just started a new blog site. I have added the retweet button but I haven’t seen how I can add the follow me twitter badge to my new blog and I would love to do so. Please help?
Hey Sunshine, for follow me badges, you just insert the image and then hyperlink to your twitter profile.
Here are a bunch of cool badges:
http://www.vincentabry.com/31-logos-et-boutons-pour-twitter-2480
thanks for very good tips…………..