I’ve composed before about how I reached the 5000 Twitter follower mark. Today my main Twitter account struck 7000 followers! Thanks to everyone for postdating me
This is a pretty acceptable landmark, considering that:
a) my main Twitter feed links to my highly governmental, sometimes arguable blog, which means from the very get down, approximately 50% of the universal common acquiredt be concerned in what I have to state, and,
b) it took me a really long time to “get” Twitter
(Actually, point “a)” isn’t all that strange. One of the paradoxes of the internet is that taking hold of and keeping onto a niche subject is a conspicuous way to construct an ample postdating. Your mother always stated, “You can’t delight everyone” and she was proper
Filter out uninterested or downright hostile visitors and followers by being upfront about who you are Then you can build a robust, engaged following. Just google words like “narrowcasting” and “the abundant tail” and see how this focus on, well, concentrating has go one of the “best practices” in internet commercializing and communication.)
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How I reached the 7000 Twitter follower mark
So how did I reach the 7000 Twitter follower number?
Quite simply, you have to provide great information, entertain people and engage with them
Twitter is about conversations, not (just) broadcasting
My main Twitter account is connected with the RSS feed for my blog, by using the RSS features MarketMeSuite
As well, I use MarketMeSuite to hook the blog, and the Twitter account, directly to Ping.FM, where I’ve opened accounts with lots of social web communities like Posterous, Google Buzz, FriendFeed and many more
Every time I update my blog or send out a tweet, it gets automatically picked up by these dozens of social web sites. This increases the chances that I’ll be happened, scan and postdated
I keep MarketMeSuite open all day and monitor all my followers, an abstracted pane for “best friends”, absolute messages, retweets, search words tied to my topic, and mentions
It takes just a few seconds to say “Thanks for the RT!” or “Have you ever tried doing XYZ?” or “Be sure to watch XYZ program tonight!”
Little by little, this engagement has established my Twitter feed as one that will appeal to a sizable yet concentrated group of followers out there
(It probably helps that my Twitter avatar is a giant, red letter “K” [for my first initial] right now, and that I switch it around sometimes to keep people from getting avatar “blindness.”)
Finally, I’ve utilized Tweet Adder to pull off my follows and unfollows automatically
A lot of people have problems with the new update, Tweet Adder 3. I haven’t experienced these issues. When Tweet Adder acts up, I simply quit and then relaunch the program. I cognize that sounds very “1998″ but older school fixes sometimes work best!
Using Tweet Adder to automatically follow back people who follow me, and searching out potential followers who are interested in the same subjects I am, has really made a difference in my number of followers and how quickly I’ve been able to add them
I average about 30 new followers a day to my main Twitter account
Is that a huge number? Nope. But sluggish and unwavering growth also keeps Twitter from shutting your account for being a spammer
Your number of followers matters, no matter what some “gurus” try to tell you. A ample number provides social proof of your influence and competence
People also judge you on the number of people you follow, too. If you have a ratio that’s too far away from 1:1 followers/follows, you can look like you’re just collecting followers but don’t care about what anyone else has to say. That doesn’t make an acceptable impression, either
And that first impression when people first visit your Twitter profile really matters
Since you can’t get thousands of followers instantly, start laying the foundations today, being patient and trying some of the methods that have worked for me
