4 Tips on Getting Followers on Twitter
Here are my 4 tips for getting followers on Twitter.
Not that I always follow them, but that I’ve noted.
- Participate in group chats. Tuesday nights are “girls night out” or #GNO. You can go to tweetchat.com and sign in with your Twitter username & password then go to the #GNO room and join in. Participate. This exposes you to new people that you otherwise wouldn’t know. I recently participated in SmallBizTrends group chat about Twitter and it was a lot of fun.
- Use directories like Twellow or Twitterholic to find people – by keyword or location.
- Go to search.twitter.com and put in a hash tag relating to what you do. For me it would be #onlinePR or related terms. See who is writing about it. Follow them if you find them useful.
- Reply to people and retweet about the interesting things you learn. So as not to overwhelm people I have another tab opened in Firefox and I use TweetLater (or you can use SocialToo) to space them out a little.
Problogger recently gave 5 tips to grow your Twitter Presence and it’s a question that has come up a lot this week. I agree with his tip:
Everytime you reply to someone and have them reply to you your Twitter ID appears in the feeds of others which exposes you to potentially thousands upon thousands of other Twitter users.
I also like this point which I’ve also found true and which is why you need to schedule out your tweets (see #4 below).
Warning: Tweet too regularly and about nothing worthwhile and you run the risk of loosing followers. What I’ve found is that on days that I’m more talkative than others that there can come points where I’m talking so much that my followers don’t have room to respond.
I asked my Twitter followers for advice. I got these responses (I typically don’t get a lot but usually they are high quality):
@rickgalan @NewspaperGrl be interesting.
(re: how to get new followers) also – engage the followers you already have
@Matt_Siltala @NewspaperGrl #1 be yourself #2 provide something of value (content, resources, help) #3 participate in the conversation/community
What has worked for you? When I was beginning on Twitter coming up on 2 years ago, you didn’t really have to try as hard to get followers. Now you do need to be proactive because like anything else that works, it’s more crowded.
My warning: Don’t go to Twitter and start taking, advertising or promoting yourself. It’s NOT all about you. It turns most people off. Share information that is helpful. Answer questions. Respond to people. Be social and interact. Put things in regular terms so a layperson will understand.
My last piece of advice is this: give to the community. They will follow and reward you for it. What’s Yours?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 8:40 am
[...] OK. So you’ve got your name back? Good. Now, do you need more followers on Twitter? Don’t want to use really sleazy tactics to do it? NewsPaperGrl offers some helpful tips. [...]