This is part 2 in my Twitter Guide. Feel free to add your input (It may be added).
You are likely reading this because you want to grow your online presence using Twitter. What you will basically will be doing is writing the best tweets you can come up with, give people the URL to your blog or website in your profile, and letting them decide whether they want to read more or not. However, that is just the basic idea and there is a lot more you can do. You want to get followers that are willing to respond to your tweets or tweet about your blog.
Why Get Followers on Twitter?
Twitter has become another way to follow someone’s blog. About every blogger uses a plugin or a free service that automatically tweets for them when they have a new post. Since that has become an option, a lot of Twitter users just follow your tweets and don’t subscribe to your Blog. That is one reason why it is important to get followers on Twitter.
It can also make you more money. When you have a product you are trying to sell it is easy for people to come and read about it if you send out a new tweet. You have the chance of making a lot more sales if you have more followers. This is just another avenue of making money by selling your products or other affiliate products.
It will allow your readers to get to know you better. Twitter is personal whether you believe it or not. Most people will not want to follow you if you are just trying to sell them something or just promoting your own content. Allowing followers to get to know you on a personal level will definitely help your online presence.
Most of all, the more followers you get, the better the things above will get. Your followers are likely to respond to your tweets over time. If they respond then your username will show up on their profile page with their response. Then their followers will more than likely click on your username if they are not already following you. The people that then come your profile page may follow you, go to your blog or website, or even reply to one of your tweets.
How to Get More Followers
If you are going to build your online presence using Twitter, then you’re going to have to get followers. There are a number of ways that you can do this, but remember that the beginning is the hardest part. It will be easier for people to find you and follow your profile once you get a good amount of followers.
The first thing you should do is add a way to get to your Twitter profile on your blog or website. If you are trying to get as many followers as possible, then why not start with the people that are subscribed to or visiting your blog. These will be some of the easiest followers you ever get.
Follow people that are in your niche. Try to get the people that have the most followers first and then go down the ladder. Nowadays most people automatically follow you back. Do not just go and start following everyone though. This will get your account suspended.
Stock some of the top users on Twitter. Respond to some of their tweets so that you have a chance of them responding back. All their followers will see their response to you and they will likely click on your username to see your profile. One of the best ways to get them to respond is by asking them a question. Do not get too carried away with this one though as it may make them never want to respond to you.
Now try to respond to some of your own followers. They are even more likely to respond you. You don’t even have to respond, you may want to just ask them a question about what they think on a certain subject (Preferably about your niche).
Use the search page to find a topic being talked about that is in your niche. For example, you would search for blog tips to see if there was anyone that you could respond to. If you respond then you might gain that person as a follower, but best of all they may respond to your response. Again, all that persons followers would see that they responded to you.
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I prefer the slow burn approach to Twitter. I’m not as eager to get new followers as I am to connect with the ones I have. Twitter is obviously quite powerful, but I want to make sure I’m harnessing all the potential rather than allowing it to simply swirl all around me.
Twitter is a must for every blogger or affiliate marketer.
And for me , i consider it another form of mailing list.
Excellent thoughts. What I believe Twitter comes down to in terms of getting more followers – is communication. This is exactly what you’ve shown here on this post, as communicating with your followers – and superstars in your niche, is an excellent way to get noticed.
Good tips as usual. I had a lot more luck with my nich stores using Twitter. Twitter has been a great tool so far.
Nice article. These damn people just keep following me. No matter what I say.
Thanks for sharing this! This will really be a big help.
Franklin,
Solid, thoughtful advice. Writer Dad’s comment resonated with me. I, too, rather build relationships then make a mad dash to the scoreboard. I was never very good at math, anyway.
I always visit the website and twitter page of everyone who follows me. I like to get to know my fellow twitters. The creativity and ideas I’ve found on twitter never cease to amaze. Ever wonder why someone follows you?
Do you follow everyone that follows you? Do you ever “unfollow” someone? Oops…I promise, no more questions.
Great post! Thanks.
I’m going to reply to Lawrence…
I allways wonder why people that dont know me added me I just tell myself it’s because their in love with me and want to be my bestest friend 4Life!! No, I just think my life is somewhat interesting and they want something good to read. Which is great. I want people to relate to my life. I’ll allways listen to problems, give advise, or just conversate.
I only follow the people that I find interesting whether they follow me or not. I’ve only un-followed one tweeter and that would be BUZZ HOLLYWOOD because of the NONSTOP tweeting. I wasnt interested enough to have nothing but BUZZ tweets on my homepage.
So if your interested follow me. I promise I’m not boring. Tweet me if u have a comment.
Writer dad is right (IMHO)
I see little point in having thousands of followers if you can’t connect properly with them.
Even if you can’t personally relate to who is following you maybe they can relate to what you say. I think thats why the people who have thousands of followers don’t follow everyone who follows them. So if your able to have that may people interested in what you say I see that as a good thing. It’s all in good fun, theres not some big point to it, unless it influences or changes someones life…
Don’t be eager , just proactive.
Egypt Moneeck
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Twitter is definitely an awesome tool to attract new people to your blog and your information but also a great way to connect with people that you’d never meet otherwise.