6 ways to increase your Twitter followers

With social media fast becoming part of both personal and business life, it won’t be long until our importance in life is judged by the number of people following us.

Twitter Followers

More importantly for business, the more followers you have – the quicker your message reaches maximum audience.

I am often asked. How can I increase the number of followers on my Twitter account? I seem to have stagnated at X. So for this reason I have put together my top tips for increasing followers.

1. The best example is the TV show “My name is Earl” use good Karma. – Listen to what the people that you follow, and those that follow you say and where possible reply to them with helpful and polite comments. One of the best things for this that I use is Tweet deck

2. Increase the number of your tweets, following a theme which is in line with your business. If you specialise in sports equipment, why not tweet about sports, and sports technology. Don’t panic, you don’t have to spend the whole of your day on twitter, constantly tweeting. Use technology to its best advantage, using the RSS feeds from your favourite news, industry magazines and other useful reputable resources, try Twitter Feed to supply your twitter account with up to the minute tweets.

3. Pick your time to tweet. Studies have shown that the best times of day to tweet are between the hours of 10.00 am and 4.00 pm, by tweeting between these hours your message should hit max exposure. Use tweet deck’s scheduling facility to post your tweets at the most optimum times.

4. Follow other people. Yes that’s right I said follow other people. If you expect people to follow you, why wouldn’t you follow them? But who should I follow? There are a number of theories here, I personally follow people who post interesting / thought provoking tweets, and those who follow me. I know of other twitter users that follow so called power tweeters within their industry, as it lets the industry know that they are there.

Follow @GoMyManchester

5. Interact with the people that follow you. Remember that Twitter, just like, Facebook and Linkedin is social media, so be sociable and follow those that take the time to follow you. Remember to re-tweet other tweet’s if you think that your audience would find them of interest.

6. Become a resource. If you really want to become a success on twitter, remember to tweet useful and interesting posts, this could be linking to an interesting article, posting a useful document or adding a thoughtful opinion on a wider discussion. For a quick and easy way to post a document on Twitter, why not try TwitDoc.com

Follow @CarlBradshaw

By using some of the tips above, you could improve your twitter followers numbers, why not follow my Twitter accounts @carlbradshaw and @gomymanchester and I will follow you back. As part of my freelance services I operate one to one social media training sessions within businesses across the north west, if you would like to find out more then please give me a call on 08444 123 172 or leave a comment below and I will get in touch. Remember social media should be fun!