D best advice i can give is: It's not about d number of followers. It's about d quality. Go 4 followers with interest similar 2 d theme of ur site. U do dis by (1) posting tweets nd links dat will interest dem nd (2) ensuring dat u add keywords related 2 ur sites theme. This makes it possible 4 dem 2 find u in real time results. Hence, increasing d no of quality followers u have. This are d kind of followers more likely 2 go 2 ur site when directed.
Hi you use twitter. Night or early morning when you work at night on twitter than your followers automatic increase you put tweet within 15 minutes also.
Twitter is very good way to bring traffic on your site you need to do post with the post link, also you need to get more follower I have 17000+ followers and I'm happy with the traffic from twitter
Maybe focus on getting more followers for now before interacting with them. Building relationships with your followers can be a great technique too. Follow relevant users as well and "HARD SELL" is a big NO. Try to be as interactive, unique yet interesting as possible when posting tweets.
Twitter is the best social networking site keep working on it, you will get more followers,so you will get more traffic.
One idea I can suggest is to try to search the Twitter stream for users having problems that are solved on your forum, then send them an @reply saying "one of our users had the same problem, have a look here httpetc.." . If u can solve people's problem they will certainly come to ur site! so dont hesitate to send spontaneous tweets to people you think you might be able to help! Cheers!