5 Tips for Attracting New Twitter Followers

Dec 29, 2011 by Ajeet Khurana

Twitter is much more than just an outlet for socializing and staying in the pop culture loop. It can actually be a powerful marketing tool for your business, website, service, or brand, if you know how to use it correctly. As with most other marketing techniques, when it comes to Twitter, getting the results you want is a numbers game – the more followers you have, the greater your chances of success. For that reason, people use a variety of methods to attract followers, some more effective than others. So what works, and how can you use Twitter to grow a following? Here are five tips for attracting new twitter followers:

Customize your profile.
Don’t make the mistake of leaving your profile incomplete or bland. You need to have something catchy in the bio section, and a cool pic of either yourself, your brand logo or your avatar. For example, your bio should be unique and entertaining, so skip the boring, resume-like spiel and add some personality.

Spread your Twitter handle around.
Your “handle” is your Twitter username (@yourname), and it’s how people find you on Twitter, even if they’re not on Twitter. If you want people to find and follow you on Twitter, then your handle should be everywhere: on your business cards, in your advertisements, included in your email signature, and at the end of all your posts on other social networking sites.

Give them what they want.
No one likes being solicited for business. Remember this when you are tweeting. Don’t patronize your followers by constantly selling yourself; instead provide useful, informative, humorous, educational, interesting, or otherwise worthwhile tweets that your followers will want to share. That way you can attract new followers just by tweeting

Retweet.
When you retweet other peoples’ tweets, you are basically giving them kudos and making them visible to all of your followers. The great thing about this is that they see you’ve retweeted them, and are likely to do the same for you. Just be careful to use the retweet wisely (when it is truly warranted), or you may come off as a phony asking for a favor.

Hash-tagging events.
If you are at an event that others will be talking about, then make it a point to report on the event while you are there, marking your tweets with hash-tags as you go. That way, people who are interested in the event can search for it by its hash-tag, and will find you and your tweets.

Attracting new Twitter followers will take some thought and effort, but it is well worth your time, as Twitter can be a great way for you to broaden your horizons and expand your reach. Good luck, and happy tweeting

About the Author: Kenna Dicampli loves using Twitter to expand her horizons and meet new people. She specializes in computer repair and Mac data recovery and enjoys networking with others in her field. This article was written by a guest author. Would you like to write for us?

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Hey Aleah, great idea about documenting a backpacking trip through Europe for the “not so rich” traveler.

The need to heavily promote your adventure in the beginning isn’t that important if you choose to document your travels properly.
1. Give your readers as much of a heads up as you can before hand. Maybe show off some of your equipment you will be taking and what some of the things you think you will need will be.
2. Create posts about the general route you will take, some of the places you think you “must” visit and some that are a possible interest. Maybe a rough timeline on how long each leg of the journey will take.
3. Give your readers a general posting timeline that you hope to follow while away. This will give your regular readers something to look forward to.
3. I don’t know if you use YouTube, but this is the perfect time to start. You can record your backpacking adventures and then upload them to your channel every time you get a chance. These videos would be a great way to promote your blog as people are always looking up travel related videos.
Even if you only uploaded a video or two every three days or so, and blogged on your site as well, you would end up with a heck of a lot of content by the end of your trip.
4. recap and promote. once the trip is over you can do a recap post and video to show highlights of the trip and turn it into an easy to follow series that any new visitors in the future would be able to follow your travels from start to finish for years to come.

I think that if you follow something like what I have written there that you will see an increase in the number of visitors to your site each week. On top of that, any unused footage or journals writing you may have not used can be utilized in the future for posts on days that you don’t have much to write about. Just pull out the old, unused content and title it as “The other day I was reminded of an old museum I visited” or something along those lines.

Well good luck and have a great trip.