What You Need to Know For Maximum Exposure on Twitter, and how to get more Twitter followers Fast! While the internet hasn’t been in existence for very long, its rate of development has been exponential. Of particular note is the rise of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, and Twitter.
The massive popularity of these sites has led some to coin the term “Web 2.0” in reference to both the new interactive capacity and the new networking focus of the internet in people’s daily lives.
Twitter, as the newest popular addition to this group of sites, has become particularly important for those who work in e-commerce or internet marketing professions. To many in the advertising business, it represents an easy, cheap, and effective way to reach a massive audience.
Read on to learn the best ways to create a huge group of followers on Twitter for any business purpose you can imagine.
Focus on content
While there are tricks you can use to get more followers, when it comes down to it, the main reason people will follow you is because they enjoy and appreciate your content.
If you have nothing interesting to say or are simply spamming them with ads for your business or product, you will not gain followers and will probably lose those who gave you the benefit of the doubt. One method is to focus on what you are interested in or something truly unique you have to offer and work from there: people who search for the topic may find you and you can gain a base the old-fashioned way.
To help this along, it is good to use hashtags, albeit sparingly. A hashtag is a way of marking a keyword in your post. For example, if your specialty is PPC advertising, you may want to put a “#” mark before “PPC” in your tweets to mark it for easy searching. Not everyone uses hashtags, but they are popular enough to increase your followers.
PPC hashtag
Watch/Follow Top Twitter Users in Your Niche
Another approach would be to watch top Twitter users in your niche, use Twitter search to track hot discussions in your niche, and focus your efforts on those topics to generate a lot of user traffic. This method is more time intensive, as you have to continuously stay updated and come up with new topic specific/latest news type of tweets.
Advertise Your Twitter Page!
Advertise your Twitter account everywhere: on blogs, other social networking sites, your business website, business cards, and even real-world business meetings and events.
For every new follower you get from this sort of targeted traffic, you have access to a whole related network of people who will be naturally more inclined to follow you than the average web browser. This helps your followers grow through word-of-mouth, recommendations, and horizontal linkages.
Another small tip
In the process of doing all of this, don’t forget the basics. Don’t tweet too much, or too many unrelated tweets, as you may lose your audience’s attention. Tweet about pertinent and interesting information, make sure you have a profile picture and fill out your bio, and cater to what your audience wants to know. You will gain and keep more Twitter followers in no time at all.
What is your ways for gaining more followers and keep those who are following you on Twitter?
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Article by Adriana Copaceanu
Adriana Copaceanu has been making money online since 2000 and says learning How to Write a Marketing Plan is very important for a healthy business. You can follow Adriana on twitter here
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Twitter: jbgrab
March 6, 2012 at 3:29 am
I do appreciate all above comments but can someone out there help me getting little more traffic at my website. As a routine, I tweet around 1,000 tweets and individual tweet contains 2/3 @mentions of Twitter IDs, which makes it 1k*2=2k peoples approached daily!
Seems good at first sight. I do receive responses, favorites & re-tweeting from many people but still, google analytics indicates 30-50 visit per day? (I have coded google tracking codes in individual links).
I have tried multiple things but it isn’t working as I get to read success stories of twitter!! Is there anyone capable enough to find out bugs in my account and tell me what I am doing wrong – my id is “JBGrab”.
I will be looking after to receive any profitable comment from fomousbloggers.net.
Great tips ahead, I have an account in Twitter and I am not usually update it but I do several followers. This tips is such a great help for me, thank you so much for posting this.
Regards,
Trevor
Twitter: opportplanet
August 4, 2011 at 10:57 am
In my opininion the best way to get more followers and retweets is to retweet regularly tweets from other bloggers on your niche and follow those that retweet your tweets
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Twitter: qarchive_org
August 9, 2011 at 1:19 am
Hi Kostats,
But if you will retweet to often this will annoy your followers, IMHO. Therefore you can lose a part of them. In this case you shouldn’t be to obtrusive.
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Hi Adriana,
Great pointers about Twitter.
Your point about not tweeting irrelevant links is very important. Whenever people use the Twitter search engine, having tweets that are well optimized for search queries is very important.
Funny thing. We all focus on SEO for Google, but nobody ever mentions SEO for twitter searches.
SEO is hands down “the most targeted” traffic you can get.
Therein lies the reason that you tweets have to be on topic and keyword and hash tag rich.
Great post…:)
Mark
Great pointers Adriana! While I believe hashtags are great, including them within the topic or sentence is a major distraction for me. Instead adding them at the end, after the link is more appealing. It’s just how I feel and follow.
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Thank you for the good tips. We have a few rules: never talk about what you ate. Always be positive and polite. Genuine compliments are powerful in getting followback and staring conversations. Humor is very important, somewhat rare on Twitter, so appreciated. Never forget to thank your ReTweeters and return the favor. Be relevant to your subject without being too narrow.
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Twitter: seommotips
November 13, 2010 at 9:51 am
Its very easy for many people to overlook the effect of conversation – why not be it just Good Morning. I remember @kannanbala. He often greets with simple Good Morning/Evening and the conversation begins.
The best way to get twitter follower is to engage in Twitter and continue conversation. @mention and #tags works great to help you reach your target audience.
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Hi Adriana,
I’ve been using Twitter for a while now and it is important for me to follow those who have interesting things to say, because I like to read it
I know that there are people who use twits generating machines and most of them send simply spam. So, I don’t follow all those who follow me, if this is the case how they treat Twitter.
That’s a great tip about hashtags. I’ll try it out!
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Good post. A good free tool to use to gain put hash tags in your tweet is tweetchat. Tweetchat allows you to add automatic hashtags to your tweets while viewing viewing realtime tweets using the same hash tags. This will allow you to not only get exposure for your niche topic it will also allow you to find targeted people to reply to and follow. It’s a great free tool.
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Good tips! I am newbie to twitter, I deffinately follow these tips to increase my followers.
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Twitter: pbjbreaktime
September 12, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Thanks, making your profile easier on the eyes is certainly a great way to make potential followers click that “Follow button” xD
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Hi Adriana!
The basics are so important. I tend to operate a policy of asking myself, “What would someone get out of following me?” when I am Tweeting. Let’s face it… there has to be something in it for your followers, whether it’s entertainment, humour or information.
Tweeting too much is a pet peeve of mine. If I login to Twitter and my screen is completely full of Tweets by just one person and this happens over and over, I tend to unfollow! But maybe I’m just impatient….
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Adriana, great article.
It’s very important you shore up the relationship with your followers and allow them to get to know you. One way that I’ve found is great for doing that and opening up communication is using Follow Friday. Instead of giving a long list of your favorite followers though, I find it better to use one tweet per individual with a reason why you follow them and then link to their website as well. They often appreciate the extra effort as well as the traffic love.
John
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Appreciable post. Information shared here are very useful and beneficial for us. i am going to follow this. Specially, i like your last small tip which would help in taking care of our audiences.
Thanks and keep updating us.
Hi Adriana,
I think from a bare basics point of view, this would be a great introductory article for beginners. Over time, depending on people’s ‘why’ of using twitter, they tend to forget the basics and head over to spammy tactics. Right now, it IS very noisy in there. and it’s still growing to the tune of 600 million users!
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
May 15, 2010 at 11:46 am
Having your Twitter bio written correctly is very important for your twitter followers to see who you are and what you are about and should be written well with out using too many keywords…
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Adriana,Thanks for some really good information on how to use Twitter. It’s good to know that it is OK to not follow everyone who follows you.Thanks for sharing with us.
I have a much better response on FB and Linkedin, so I rely on those more often. It takes me more than 140character to build a relationship. With Twitter i feel like i’m tweeting to the wind. But my goal next month is to take some time to learn to use some twitter tools and get better at it.
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What happened to – keep up an awesome blog, promote that, and let followers follow naturally?
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Im happy now…
bcoz im following all the points you mentioned here..
thaks for the tips
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Adriana,
This is a fantastic overview of Twitter. I love using Twitter for networking and relationship building. I am quite open about probably being a Twitter addict and like you said I watch carefully to not Tweet too much. The only thing worse than people who Tweet 30 times in a minute twice a day full of spam, is the bots and “pro” spammers.
I also agree that answering people or creating conversations helps grow my list a good deal.
Thanks for sharing such great tips.
Advertising my Twitter page is something that I need to do more of, so thanks for sharing that tip. Marked that down on my list of things to do.
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Great post! Very helpful tips. I didn’t know about hash tags for a long time but they are very useful.
You’ve inspired me to enter the contest. Maybe .. we’ll see. LOL
Glennette Goodbread
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Great tips Adriana!
I think it is important to stay true to yourself and your followers. Be who you are and be natural. The Twitter “rules” are many, best is just to be polite and nice without being annoying I’d say
I liked Geralds tips about twitter directories, I’ve never used one so I will check that out.
Personally I’m not a big fan on auto dm’s when follwiwng someone.
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Clear information on a method of communication that often ends up being MIScommunicated. Thanks, Adrianna. Nice to learn that it’s not considered impolite to not follow everyone who follows me, and that others hate those auto-tweets, too. However, I think maybe I’ve been abusing the hashtags. (blushing.)
A very clear and concise post with great tips on using Twitter ~ thanks Adriana. As with all web content, you should only post quality tweets. I can’t understand what people who spam Twitter think they are accomplishing.
I have had the best luck building a Twitter community by following people in my niches, looking at their followers and looking at the people who tweet about my niches (I use Google Reader for the last step).
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Great tips Adriana! I totally agree on using hashtags sparingly. Some people just go way overboard and it’s annoying LOL
As for following people in my niche, I have a hard time finding people who are not spamming all the time. I have a lot of people to sift through to find the good ones.
The thing I struggle with most is that I use my name as my Twitter id and have used my account for both my weight loss/fitness niche and business. It really doesn’t always go together but I have a hard enough time keeping up with other things I’m not sure I could handle another Twitter account. Maybe one day!
My biggest tip like you mentioned above is not to follow everyone who follows you. If I don’t know them, I usually keep an eye on their Twitter stream and usually know if I’ll connect well with them. I’m also NOT offended if someone I follow doesn’t follow me back
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I put my twitter ID on my business card this year too, and a lot of people commented, “Oh you Twitter too?” Even had a few people grab their phone from their pocket and follow me right then and there.
Great tip!
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I liked the “Don’t forget the basics” tips. All too often peeps get carried away and too into some technical feature of what they are doing and forget it’s a SOCIAL medium.
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I believe content is the king of Twitter, I personally notice that people spam everyone and it may inflate the number for a second, but after a while everyone starts to realize that they don’t even have anything to actually offer. In face its pointless to even have people follow you if you aren’t going to put in the time and effort to keeping them coming back.
Twitter: israelimom
March 8, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Great tips in the article and the comments to. My tip would be not to automate anything in your account. Keep it human and interact a lot.
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All great tips.
To add another little tip, you can get listed at Twitter directories like we follow and twellow
These are just a couple examples but there are a ton of other similar directories out there.
The cool thing about these directories is that they allow you to add yourself under relevant categories. So if, for example, you put yourself under marketing as a category, people looking in the directory under marketing will be likely to find you.
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Excellent addition. I personally haven’t been using Twiter directories so far: I should probably look into that.
My only twitter strategy is follow others but i will reconsider to add more strategy as in this article.
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This is great information. I’m fairly new to the Twitterverse and am slowing starting to learn the basics. I do have a question though, well two actually, how important is the following/follower ratio, and what is the ettiquette regarding follow backs?
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I personally don’t follow back everyone who follows me. You need to look at their Twitter stream and see if what they tweet interests/help you, if their tweeting frequency is right for you & won’t drive you bonkers, etc. It’s important to put some thought into who you follow.
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I cover this type of stuff over at TwitterWatchdog.com . I cannot emphasize the importance of following these same suggestions you have given here. I like to see others on the same page.
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Nice basic tips, sometimes people can forget the fundamentals and be blinded by money. The key to using twitter is to be engaging and likable. People don’t want to follow someone who is boring..
P.S. ..and for the love of god, please don’t have twitterfeed blast out 4 tweets every 30 minutes!
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Great post. Things I do my best at practicing..
*Delivering good content.
*Not spamming with salesy crap.
*Don’t put up so many twitter posts in a day that not one person feels annoyed enough to unfollow!
Good stuff! Wag!
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I found answering people back works the best
Nice post
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I definitely agree with advertising your Twitter profile. I’d add that you should include adding it to Twitter directories such as Twellow and WeFollow. I always suggest those when telling new Twitter users where to find relevant, targeted followers, and it makes sense that while you’re looking for those kinds of followers, you should add yourself so you can be found by others as well.
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Twitter: roezer
March 7, 2010 at 6:19 pm
I just ignore Dm’s if they want to grab my Attention they can Retweet or ask mea question about one of my blogs topics.
That is a good point Jack! I think DM’s carry almost no benefit anymore. I will admit that I usually send a DM to everyone that follows me – but for a couple of seconds work it could get me a new subscriber.
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Great tips here! I myself hate those automated direct messages. Since the recent phishing attacks, I hardly click on the links in DMs anyways. Thanks for sharing!
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