10 Ways To Increase Your Followers On Twitter
15 Mar 10 at 04 24 am
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Also with the current trend of ‘Unfollowing’ people, maintain the current number of followers is a challenge in itself leave alone increasing the number of followers. Here a few ways to increase your Twitter followers:
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Have a Complete Profile
Your Twitter profile is the only way people know you in Twitter. Having just your username doesn’t provide any information about you. You have to completely fill your bio and provide your interests. Most of the Twitter users follow others based on similar interests. If you are a JAVA developer and would like to connect with other developers and listen to relevant news, it’s must that you mention it your profile as well.
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Quality Posts
Twitter is one of the best sources of information, news and updates. People will pay attention to your tweets only if they are worth paying attention to. Your tweets should be a good mix of updates for your target audience. Moreover, do post informatory updates since they have high chances of being ‘Retweeted’. Retweets gets you a lot of attentions and thus the chances of people joining your network goes up.
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Pay Attention To Others As Well
There can’t be a bigger turn off than Twitter users who just keep posting updates and links without ever paying attention to anyone else. While it is necessary to post updates, it is equally important to listen to others updates as well. At the end of the day, everyone likes to listen to people who listen to me.
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Use Hashtags
Make it a practice to use Hashtags (#) while posting updates. Not least, when you are talking about certain events or trending topic, make sure to mark the keywords with hash tags. These make your tweets more search engine friendly and thus the prospect of more people seeing your tweets goes up.
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Follow Your Followers
This might not be the best option for people following niche groups but if you are one of those who doesn’t mind the quality of followers, this is one of the fastest and easiest option. Reciprocating and being known as someone who follows all his followers is sure to fetch you more followers.
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Keep Your Account Clean
One of the best things about Twitter was the ease with which you could follow anyone. The same ease has given rise to high number of spammers and bots. No one would like to be followed by spammers and in case your account in inflicted by a lot of spammers, people will want to keep a distance from your account as well. Make sure to clean your account on a periodic basis and keep spammers out.
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Retweet
Such was the popularity of ‘Retweet’ that Twitter incorporated it in its service. Retweet is one of the best ways to get noticed. When you Retweet someone’s post, you get noticed by the user immediately. Everyone likes their tweets to be retweeted and most of the times this favor is returned in retweet of your tweet.
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Start Conversation
One of the best ways to get noticed is asking question or starting a conversation thread. The topic should be chosen keeping the interest of your followers. Sometimes it’s easy to get noticed by talking on controversial topics. While you are at it don’t forget to check the replies you receive.
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Be Active And Manage Your Account Well
As your follower number increases, it becomes more and more difficult to keep track of your account. It is very important to use one of the various tools to effectively manage your account. When you are one among hundreds and thousands, getting noticed is very difficult. The only way you can be noticed is by being active.
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Follow New People
Last but not the least; try to update your following list regularly. If you want to be noticed by more people, you ought to notice others too. There are various tools available that let you ‘mass follow’ or follow by keyword search. You number of followers directly depends on the number of people you are following.
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Professional Web Design24 Mar 10 at 10 54 pmFirst i would like to say thanks for sharing here because i have getting lot of point for promote my site over the twitter it s really informative post from u guys.
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