Like others have mentioned here, the only way to get Twitter to work for you is to connect and make friends there. Friends are interested in your stuff, but some random people probably are not and will dissmiss your tweets in a heartbeat. By making firends you get people to retweet your tweets. Without friends the whole thing is worth nothing.
Try to retweet some of their post and they will retweet your post too. From that your post will stay on top on the news..
Be real in twitter! So that they will follow you back. Most people don't follow those account who always promote a link. And be active and interact with the community.
1. Try to balance between following n followers, 2. You can use the way like me, not saying to follow me, 3. Use your own IQ.