Growing Your Twitter Following
January 17, 2011 by admin
Filed under Twitter Marketing Secrets
As a person who has a Twitter account, you may be noticing the numbers at the right hand side and wondering what you can do to grow the number of people who are seeing your Tweets. In order for you to grow the number of people you have following you, you will need to play an active role in Twitter. You should be concentrating on being a good friend and Internet buddy first and foremost. If your goal is to populate the web with spam, think again. As many new followers you get a day will be the number, you lose as well.
Tips For Growing Your Numbers
The following are a few ways that you can grow the number of people who are following you on
Twitter.
1. Communicate often. Like any other type of social media, the only way to be successful at it is to actually use it often. People remember names and faces only when they see them enough. If you want people to be able to find you are Twitter, you have to use the service often.
2. Re-Tweet. Another way to grow the number of people who are following you on Twitter is to actually ReTweet. RT, as it is commonly found on Twitter, is an easy way to communicate with others. For example, perhaps an Internet marketer is using the service to promote a live seminar. Perhaps there is a contest on a blog. Your RT of their message will help you to gain respect with them, which aids in growing your business.
3. Interact with others. Respond to others when they are talking. Interact with them by leaving a message about their update. For example, perhaps someone posts that they are having a bad day. You interact with them. This gets them to interact with you, allowing their followers to notice you.
It goes without saying that one of the worst things you can do for your Twitter following is to spam them. There is no doubt that you can talk to them about anything you want on Twitter, but if you want people to continue to follow you, you do need to avoid spam. People do not want to see five links to your website every hour. Rather, they want to get to know you and what you have to offer to them. With Twitter, the key to growing your website is to have a strong relationship with those you meet.
How To Follow On Twitter
When you first sign up for Twitter, you are able to use your email accounts as a way of finding people on Twitter who you already know. This is a fantastic service because it allows you to local friends and family you probably would have a difficult time finding otherwise, unless they told you what their Twitter name is. Initially, the process of gaining followers is easy. You simply need to allow Twitter to search through your email addresses at each of your accounts. Then, choose those you wish to follow and off you go.
On the other hand, you also have the ability to follow just about anyone else on Twitter. To do so, all you need to do is to click the “follow” button that is located on their page. Here is how you can do this easily.
1. Log into your Twitter account. Click on the link at the top right of your screen that says
“follow people.”
2. Provide Twitter with the screen name/email address of each of the email accounts that you would like to search through. You will need to provide your password but this information is not saved by Twitter and is protected fully.
3. A list pulls up that gives you the names of all those who have Twitter accounts. Check the boxes of those you wish to follow.
4. Now, check out who those people are following. Is a business associate following
someone interesting? Once you are following them, you can visit their Twitter page and see who they are chatting with. Click on any of the names with the “@” symbol in front of them. If the person looks interesting and you wish to follow them, simply click the “follow” button under their picture of their Twitter page.
5. Build up those who you are following in this way. You can follow anyone you wish to follow, as long as their Tweets are not protected. If they are, you can send a message requesting to be allowed to view their messages.
You can also use the search function on Twitter, located at the bottom of the screen through a link, to find people you may know. It only takes a few minutes to get your group going. Remember; though… the more people you follow on Twitter, the harder it can be to keep in personal touch with them all. Still, for most, having many followers is fun!





