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How many of us use Twitter in real for social networking with your friends? Or you use twitter only for doing publicity of your articles. I am sure you wont be tweeting directly by logging into http://twitter.com. So there is very less probability that you will view other’s tweets. If you feel that this is correct and you are tweeting only by using API or software then there are a lot of people who are using twitter in the same way.
But the point is that only bloggers use these APIs and tweeting tools to tweet their articles. So you still have a lot of scope to get huge traffic from twitter since there are few bloggers but lot of normal users and the normal users are your main aim.
I started blogging at MazaKaro.com two months back only. Since I was new to blogging so I wanted to increase my followers list of twitter. I did a lot of research to improve followers list and implemented lot of new ideas (I don’t know whether these are new or not) to improve followers list.
I am sharing all the knowledge which I earned by research and experiment. Following are those tips.
1. Send traffic to your Twitter profile
If you have a blog then for bringing traffic to it what you do? Definitely you will send a lot of traffic to it by inserting your blog’s link here and there in the form of comments on other blogs, by inserting your link to high page rank websites, by sharing your website with your friends and even by advertising. So I will suggest that treat your Twitter profile as your blog and send lot of traffic to it as you can to increase number of followers.
2. Use ‘Tweet This’ button
Just below your published article you must put ‘Tweet This’ button so that all the readers can easily Tweet/ReTweet your article into their profile. By this your article will be visible to thousands of readers like an interlinked spider web. This thing is very important because by this manner your twitter account will get new tweets regularly and all interlinked users will come to know that you publish nice articles (but you must publish really nice articles)
Read: How to add official Twitter retweet button
3. First impression is the last impression
If any visitor is viewing your profile then your recent tweets will only be visible to him. So obviously if your recent tweets wont be nice one then, how he will come to know that you tweet nice tweets. But your latest tweets are awesome then you would definitely impress him and he will follow you. So the tip is that if you are tweeting anything like what you ate today or you are going to party today then try to write at least one nice tweet for your new visitors.
4. Create a custom background
Professional looking background attract lot of visitors. This will show that you are a professional and chances are there, a visitor to your profile may turn into your follower.
Read: 10 websites to create free custom Twitter background
5. Follow and UnFollow regularly
Best way to get lot of followers is by following lot of people and unfollow those who are not following you back. By this way you will easily remove people who are not following you back.
6. Bloggers must follow their niche
If you are a blogger then you must follow people with your niche. This will attract people of same niche because your profile will display tweets of your niche only and visitors will get attracted towards your profile and will follow you.
5 Twitter tools to follow like minded people
7. Tweet less than 140 characters
Try to tweet less than 140 character. This is important since if your tweet will be less than 140 character then any can easily ReTweet your tweet. Because as some one will retweet your tweet then “RT:” will be added in your tweet.
Read: 5 Twitter tools to Tweet lengthy message
8. Conduct twitter contest
On your blog you may conduct a twitter contest to follow your profile. You should give attractive prizes to attract lot of visitors. If they will like your contest then they will definitely follow and retweet your profile.
9. Participate in contests
You must participate in Twitter contests by doing this, all the group of people who are into the contest may be willing to follow you.
Do share more tips which will help you to increase your Twitter followers? You can follow author of this post at @mazakaro.
Also read:
- 5 Free Twitter Tools to Unfollow Non-Followers
- 5 Twitter Tools to Follow Like Minded People
- 5 Twitter tools to Unfollow Inactive Users
- 5 Free Tools to AutoFollow Your Followers on Twitter
- 3 Twitter Tools To Determine The Best Time To Tweet
- 5 Tools to Tweet Lengthy Messages on Twitter
- 10 Websites to Create Free Custom Twitter Background
Article by Rahul Gupta
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Nice ways…….and ya following the same content niche is very much important…….
Participating with content and interaction can bring in lots and lots of followers…..
Having a variety in tweets could attract lots of new twitter users.
But you must not leave your niche if you want followers who have interest in your niche
Wonderful article Rahul that explains how to bring most out from tweets and what all the ways we use to get it, I have one opinion that creating bond with potential followers always have a power of positive results, That i learned from Twitter…
One should follow the people in their own niche. Following people in bulk leads to problems and you won’t able to interact with and follow what people of your niche are saying and finally lose their trust.
We can retweet others tweet by we can make relationship and also over tweet get retweeted..
Yes because interlinked followers of your followers will view your tweets on their home page.
>> Try to tweet less than 140 character. This is important since if your tweet will be less than 140 character then any can easily ReTweet your tweet. Because as some one will retweet your tweet then “RT:” will be added in your tweet.
The length depends on the length of your Twitter username. Mine is long – @anallawalla so I try to tweet less than 122 characters. Thanks for the article.
Nice tips! But I have a couple of “objections”.
First, I don’t think it’s mandatory to have *one* single niche, for the nature of my company I find it very effective to follow at least two niches, one for my industry and one for social media, one single blog and two twitter accounts (personal -> social media, business -> company industry).
I am not saying to exceed and have 10 different topics, but a couple, that won’t do much harm, if you keep posting new content from both niches regularly, and if you find a connection between the two.
Second, it’s true it’s good habit to follow back who follows you, and keep your “following” clean if someone suddenly unfollows you (many people do this to build up fast followers number, and then they unfollow to keep the “following” low), but it’s not always the case: sometimes it’s good to just follow someone interesting who, you feel, might add something to your personal experience. It’s not always a numbers game.
am searching for any tips to increase my twitter followers found this this..very helpful..thank u
Hi Rahul,
I think following people who relate to your niche is a very good advice if one wants to use Twitter to bring traffic to their site. Thank you for your tips.
So far Twitter has remained a mystery to me, but this helps me get a better grasp on what I need to do to build a following.
Thanks for the tips Rahul!
Troy
to be honest, i’m new to twitter so i’m glad a found this article. by the way, do you have any idea on promoting blog through facebook? you see, all of my facebook friends are indonesians (like me) while i have a blog in english segmented for US citizens..