Step#1 The first step to accumulating a massive following is to set up a Free Twitter account at twitter.com. After setting up your new twitter account you may want to upload a nice photo but more importantly you definitely want to create a really good bio and create a nice background for your site. Step#2 Find and follow fellow twitterers with similar interests. If you are a musician naturally you'll want to connect with other musicians. A great free tool to find targeted twitterers is http://search.twitter.com. This site enables you to locate people with similar interests using targeted keywords to find your audience. If you're a musician you can easily find other musicians to follow who'll in turn will follow you. Step#3 Feed your twitter account with relevant timely articles. Again if you're a musician with a following interested in music then you'll want to feed your twitter account with music related content. Step#4 Unfollow people who are not following you. Twitter rules allow you to follow up to 2000 people and you can't follow anymore people until you get 1850 followers. At that point you can go over the 2000 mark. The next limit twitter has is you can't follow more than 10% above the amount of people that follow you. This means that if you have 2000 followers the maximum amount of people you can follow is 2200. Unfollowing people that are not following you will enable you to free up space and enable you to follow others who in return may follow you. Wait at least 2 days to give people a chance to follow you. After 2 or 3 days begin unfollowing people. Step#5 Twitter allows you to post tweets with links inviting your following to visit your website. The more followers you have the more potential web traffic you'll receive. Also you can send up to 1000 direct messages a day. Depending on how large your following is, you can send a message to up to 1000 followers. If you have 5000 followers you can only send a direct message to 1000 of your followers in a given day but still that's a 1000 potential hits to your website. Keep in mind not to Post too many links promoting your site on your twitter account. Posting a link once or twice a week will suffice. Remember to shorten your urls before posting your tweets. A great tool to shorten your urls is at http://bit.ly
Thanks for the advice. I've been struggling with Twitter lately since no one ever seems to reply to my tweets. I think I screwed myself with my original tweets because they were just an rss feed. So maybe my followers are ignoring me? Now I'm trying a more personal approach but I'm not getting much love. I guess it will take some more compelling content.
Use the @ and direct message tool to reach out to your followers. You neva know when things might click!
I was having various doubts about use of twitter account as i have just now joined twitter. Your post has helped to know many things about it. Thanks for this informative post.
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Is there an easy way to look at the people I am following and know if they are following me without searching the list of those who follow me? Thanks for the info - it really helps as I am new to Twitter.
Thanks for taking the time to put up some great info. I've never been into twitter, but there is nothing to loose by trying it now.
Can you tell me specifically what List is used for on Twitter? I've been posting tweets from time to time on my twitter account and gotten a few followers, nothing major like that but I don't particularly know what List is suppose to be utilize for. Thanks for your help in advance. Lastly how can I utilize Tweetdeck to increase my followers? Or is that software specifically for following tweets from whom you're following on twitter?