30 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers
It can be easily noticed that most of the people with lot of twitter
followers were somehow famous before twitter era! or are popular in some
field or the other, at present. They all had one or the other ways to
get connected with their customers/readers/followers etc. When twitter
was launched and started getting popular, all these
customers/readers/followers started following them, as twitter gives an
easy medium to follow someones tweets.
NOTE: Recently Twitter made a change to its system. Where you can not see the conversation of two persons, if you are not following both of them. Ex:- If the tweet starts with “@username” then you will not be able to see it, unless you are following @username as well as the one who is tweeting it.
Disclaimer: I am writing this article to those people who want to know almost all the possible ways to increase their followers. Personally I am not interested in the number, but in the person that I follow, because we get, from whom we follow. Whom others follow is left to them.
Tips, tricks and strategies to get more twitter followers:-
1. Treat your twitter profile as you would treat any other website. Send as much traffic as possible to your twitter profile.
2. Maintain good tweets in the first page of your
profile. This seem to be a lot of work in the beginning. But seriously
this will help you a lot in gaining followers. If people visiting your
profile see only handful of links being tweeted, then they may not
follow you, thinking that you are some sort of a automated script or
some may think you as spammer. So see to that each time you decide to
stop tweeting, make sure to tweet some useful things and minimize links.
Because your recent tweets will be displayed in the first page of your
profile.
3. Use a “tweet this” button below all your articles or below the articles which you think can go viral in twitter world.
4. Use different other services to know who is
following you, and use the suggestion tool to get the suggested twitter
users to follow. By this you can connect to relevant people around the
world and they are most likely to follow you back, if they find you as
relevant.
5. You can conduct twitter contests
on your blog. This one strategy will drive a lot of followers in small
amount of time. But it highly depends on what you are giving away in the
contest. The higher the value of the product/service, higher the
chances of getting more followers.
6. Get your twitter profile link featured on any famous website.
Ex:- If you are listed in the top 10 re-tweeters, then you can get still more followers. As people will think that you will re-tweet even their tweets!
Ex:- If you are listed in the top 10 re-tweeters, then you can get still more followers. As people will think that you will re-tweet even their tweets!
7. If you have a website or a blog, display the follow me button at the top or any other highly visible regions.
If you get sudden hike in the traffic, you can’t expect that all those visitors will turn into your blogs subscribers or your loyal readers. But if they like the content of the blog they are most likely to follow you on twitter, as they think that you have the capacity to deliver the value.
If you get sudden hike in the traffic, you can’t expect that all those visitors will turn into your blogs subscribers or your loyal readers. But if they like the content of the blog they are most likely to follow you on twitter, as they think that you have the capacity to deliver the value.
8. Participate in twitter contests. By this you will
be in a group of people who are into the contest, by this people
participating may be willing to follow all other participants. So it is
important that you leave a status message of the tweet or the twitter ID
that you used to enter the contest, in the comment section, so that
other participants can find you on twitter.
9. You can also use your twitter profile URL, while commenting on other blogs.
10. Participate in twitter actively. Re-tweet others
useful tweets and get their attention. If they also re-tweet one of
your tweets sometime, you will end up getting noticed by their
followers, some of them may even follow you.
11. Use twitter ID in your email signature, so that
your business partners or others will get to know that you are also
using twitter.
12. Print the twitter profile URL on your business card.
13. If you have any other product, then you can get your twitter link printed on it.
14. Use your twitter URL at the end of each SMS(Short Messaging Service) from your phone.
15. Basic thing, but still ignored one: Invite all your friends in your Gmail, Yahoo mail etc, and they are the most potential followers you can ever get.
16. Tweet valuable things. Don’t just try to get
traffic to your blog by tweeting only about your articles. You can tweet
about what you are presently doing etc, bit personal things, this is
what twitter followers like to know. But try to provide some more
valuable things. Like tweeting a breaking news, cricket scores, latest
happenings at your place etc.
17. Participate in certain groups. Groups can be created using hashtags.
And some times if the group message is a hot topic, then your tweets
will be listed in “hot trending topics” in search or other famous
twitter services.
Ex:- #followfriday
Ex:- #followfriday
18. Use a custom background for your twitter
profile. This will show that you are a professional and chances are
there, a visitor to your profile may turn into your follower.
19. Use a good twitter ID. Many people suggest to
use their real name and most of the others suggest to use the business
name. In case of bloggers, people mostly use their blog name inorder to
build their brand recognition. If the twitter ID is somethink special or
attractive, many people will endup following you without any reason!
And many such attractive twitter ID’s are auctioned at different
marketplaces. It shows the importance of having a good twitter ID. And
make sure that your twitter ID is not too long, which will eventually
add up to the 140 character of the person who is tweeting you or
re-tweeting your tweets!
20. Try to involve in conversation with people
having more number of followers. When the famous person reply to your
tweet, his followers see your twitter ID, if they find the conversation
interesting, they may start following you and the conversation.
21. Use your twitter URL in other social networking,
social bookmarking and social media sites profile page and any other
online places where you have an account and space to write something.
This will help you get interesting and targeted people follow you.
22. Do not use annoying profile picture. Using your
real photo or your blog logo/banner is recommended. Many people use the
animated images, this is ok as long as its not annoying.
23. Link to your twitter profile often. You can also add a link to your profile at the end of each article on your blog.
24. If you have an online service, then use Twitter
as another tool for tech/customer support. This will make the customers
to follow you inevitably!
25. Include your twitter ID in forum signature.
26. You can ask other twitterers to recommend you to their followers and you can recommend them to your followers.
27. Some bloggers publish the twitter IDs of some
people as: Recommended to follow list. You can participate in such
events and if your ID has been listed, you can get a lot of followers.
28. Some bloggers also collect the twitter IDs of
their readers and publish on their blog, for mass following. Participate
in such events and you will keep getting a lot of followers from that
single page over years.
29. Some people mass follow others as they are sure
that most of them followback almost all their followers. Once they reach
a certain target number, they will start un-following those mass
followed people. Thus they will be able to have a high number of
followers with a low number of following! This is not a recommended
strategy, but its still popular and most effective.
30. Utilize the about me section of twitter
properly. Put your blog URL or about your business along with your small
description. If you make it interesting, there is a high possibility of
getting more conversions(visitors into followers). Remember, your bio
is shown in the Suggested Users section, that will highly decide your number!
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