9 Tips for attracting Twitter followers

Posted by Jo | Filed under Markets

If you’re using twitter, particularly if you want to promote your blog or website with it, you’ll need followers. How can you attract twitter followers without making an annoyance of yourself or coming off as a spammer?

  1. Say something useful. Or funny. Or at least mildly entertaining. Don’t spam, and don’t make every post about driving people to your site, getting them to join your affiliate network, buy your e-book, etc. Twitter users can spot spam a mile away, and they’ll drop you right away if you come off like that.
  2. Follow others. In general, you won’t get many followers if you’re not willing to follow people. You don’t have to follow everyone who follows you, but I do to start. If you turn out to be a spammer, or worse, I have no problems un-following you though. Be careful, following hundreds (or thousands) of people hoping some will reciprocate is a great way to get labeled a spammer.
  3. Make it easy to follow you. Provide a link to your twitter profile in your post, on your sidebar, somewhere.
  4. Ask! Ask people to follow you. That may seem obvious, but I often have success posting something like “I need X more followers to hit YYY. Please follow me.”
  5. Ask for retweets. When you post a particularly useful tweet, ask your followers to retweet it. This will get you more exposure.
  6. Give retweets. If you posts of people you follow that you think YOUR followers would like. Your followers get good information, and the person you retweeted is more likely to follow you and retweet your material too.
  7. Use the hash (#) tag. If you write a lot about basketball, then you’ll want to use #basketball in your tweets. Think keywords, and preface each with #. This will help people find you when they search for those topics on twitter.
  8. List yourself in twitter directories.
  9. Be patient. It takes time to build a twitter following. Take your time, enjoy posting and getting to know your followers, and the followers will come.

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Comments (5) | August 17, 2009

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  4. Aminul Islam Sajib Says:
    August 30th, 2009 at 4:27 am

    Thanks for the awesome post. I do agree with you and I’m wondering I’ve already been following the advices you’ve given in the post; excepting listing myself to some of the twitter directories.

    Now going to advertise of myself on twitter directories.

  5. Klaus @ TechPatio Says:
    August 31st, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    Thank you for the twitter directory links, I’m not listed in those so I’m going to have to check them out.

    A retweet can be a very powerful thing if you have a great tweet and you’re being RT’ed by somebody with active followers, so it’s definitely a good idea to ask for a RT every now and then, on your good stuff.
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