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How Can You Organically Attract Followers On Twitter?

How Can You Organically Attract Followers on Twitter
  1. Establish your expert status. You will become the ‘Go To’ person for your community.
  2. Use link shorteners, great headlines that grab attention and foremost high
    quality information.
  3. Stay within your area of knowledge and purpose.
  4. Introduce yourself to influencers.
  5. Engage in conversations, use #hashtags, searches and chats.
  6. Engagement is most important.

DO . . .

  • Help your followers achieve their goals.
  • Read your follower’s timeline.
  • Reply to Mentions and Direct Messages (DM) within 24 hours.
  • BE Honest. BE Attentive.
  • BE Active. BE a Resource.
  • BE Inspirational. BE Informative.
  • BE sure to mention your Twitter account everywhere.
  • List yourself on Twitter directories.
  • Use Hashtags.

DON’T . . .

  • Talk about everything you do.
  • Tell everyone, everywhere you go.
  • Talk about yourself all the time.
  • Flood your tweet stream.
  • Tweet too many messages over a short period of time.
  • Use Twitter as IM –instant messaging.
  • Use applications that use your accounts to invite people via DM to your mafia family, or use other phishing.
  • Sell all the time.
  • Get a big head.
  • Send lists of names with no explanation.
  • RT someone else’s list of names or #Follow mentions.
  • Be argumentative.
  • Tweet while intoxicated.
  • Beg for a following.
  • Think about Followers. Instead think of your valued audience.

Some of My #TwitterTips . . .

#TwitterTip: Always check your links or person’s link before you RT

#TwitterTip: Always use a URL shortening service to prevent your URLs being broken on RT

#TwitterTip: Compliment at least 1 person everyday on Twitter
(there’s always something nice to say about everyone)

#TwitterTip: Never belittle another tweeter. If you do, you risk offending all of
their followers too

#TwitterTip: Following back is a choice not an obligation or courtesy

#TwitterTip: Never forget those who helped ypu get to the top. Once at the top, reach back and help the next person up

#TwitterTip: In the beginning it is best to become a great follower 1st, find your voice, add value, engage & followers will flock to you

#TwitterTip: It takes 1000 tweets to build a reputation on Twitter, and only 1 to ruin it. Be careful what you tweet

#TwitterTip: Smile when you Tweet. Tweople can tell

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