Easy Ways to Gain Reliable Twitter Followers
Congratulations, you have started your own Twitter account, and you’re ready to start putting yourself or your product out there. But how? You need to find a way to gain quick, reliable followers that will re-tweet and reply to your updates and help you get your name out there. You may have already followed everyone on the “Suggested Users” list, but don’t expect big users like Ashton Kutcher, Oprah Winfrey and CNN News to follow you back. You have to build your own empire, starting from the ground up. It would be wise and more beneficial to start with a smaller, more targeted group of Tweet users and go from there.
What you may not know is that you could already have an edge by simply having an online presence. Do you want to know the secret of quickly gaining at least ten followers? It’s nothing special, all you need is yourself, your computer, and online networking. You probably have a Digg, StumbleUpon, Mixx or other social community account. These now come in handy, along with other social networking and micro blogging sites like Facebook, Plurk, Live Journal or your own personal blog. Try a simple post, a note, or an email to your contacts stating that you’ve joined Twitter and you’d like to follow them, and offer for them to follow you back. Usually follows work both ways and the prospective follower would like to get something back from their efforts. Also, if you know someone who doesn’t currently use Twitter, invite them to join!
The benefit beyond having your coworkers and friends following your Twitter account is that their friends are able to see your updates as well. Whenever someone re-tweets or replies to your update, it shows up on their feed, which in turn shows on the screens of whoever follows them. To give you some statistics for example, if you tweet something and have 20 followers, and just one of your followers retweet it, that is now showing up to your 20 followers, as well as however many followers the person had that retweeted. If they had 30, that is now 50 users that are able to view that one update you posted. Viral marketing in it’s finest.
Now that you’ve invited your contacts, the next step to gaining followers is to use the “Find People” option in Twitter and search for your targeted key words. You might search “SEO” for example, and get a list back of users with that name. Follow as many relevant users as you can. This is the crowd you want to be in, the people in your niche that will be genuinely interested in your updates. There is no purpose in following thousands of people if none of them are interested in what you are saying.
Be aware that getting followers is only half of the challenge. You have to have interesting updates to gain followers, and continue posting interesting content to keep them. There is also community management that shouldn’t be overlooked. Make your followers feel like you are interested in what they post by using re-tweets and commenting on their updates.
Some helpful twitter tips are to post about trending topics (commonly called “Hash Tags”, which are keywords with the number symbol (#) in front), post about an interesting article you may have seen, or a funny conversation. Stay away from updates such as “I’m going to bed”, “Hi everyone!”, and “I’m bored”. People like to see interesting stuff, and hearing about the beef burrito you just ate for lunch doesn’t really appeal to anyone. Happy Tweeting!
If you’d like to keep up to date with the latest Twitter trends and tips, feel free to Follow LavaLinx on Twitter.
Related Posts
Tags: Hash Tags, lavalinx, Tips, Trends, Twitter, Twitter Followers
.gif "Free Traffic System - Increase Targeted Website Traffic with Free
Unlimited One Way Links")