How many twitter followers do you need to get results?

Exactly 2,314 followers. That'll do the trick!



Best,
Shane

After testing out Twitter and having about 5,ooo followers and being able to generate 2000 clicks to CB products and zero sales I am not sure its worth the effort and am not focusing on it right now.

Also I find all those claims of getting thousands of followers in x days to be exaggerated since once you follow 2000 Twitter imposes limits and uses a ratio so you are stuck being able to only follow a few hundred at a time which then you have to unfollow anyone not following you so you can follow more so that you can hopefully get them to follow you....

I also have read on a few places that if it looks like you are following/unfollowing to much they will suspend your account which I don't know for sure if true or not.

What I have seen is that most people including myself will only look at the first page of tweets so if you are follwing a large number you will miss many tweets.

From a marketing stand, if you send a tweet to someone who is following hundreds or thousands the chance of your tweet being seen is slim to none unless you are tweeting like every few minutes. If you tweet only a few times a day you can pretty much forget about it.

I.E: Say you follow 2000 people and they only tweet i X day thats 2000 tweets that you will get, are you going to read all 2000 or just the first page?

If they only send 2 thats 4000, 3 = 6000, 4 = 8000 you get the picture.

Does that mean its not useful? No but just don't think if you build a following of 10K that you will make lots of money...

JMHO

It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

You can do better with 20 responsive followers that read whatever you tweet rather than 2000 who don't care whatever you do.

I've created an auto tweet script that tweets all my accounts as often as I want to set the cron job. I've found that tweeting lots of URLs often gets you banned. So tweeting a link or a statement every 15-30 mins works well.

I get clicks from all my twitter accounts to affiliate products and other sites. I've seen some sales, but not loads. Most of my twitter accounts have between 500-1000 followers. I add followers every week or so.

I've tried lots of different techniques on twitter and found my auto tweet script works best. Set and forget.

Contact me if you want to discuss my script further.

Alex

One good one.

Really. All it takes is one good follower to retweet you, and you can get some good traffic out of that.

The more you can get, the better of course.

As others have said, it's quality. And you just can't beat a quantity of quality either.

I agree with previous comments - it's about quality - not quantity, and the ability to communicate with your followers on a regular basis - notice I said communicate - not broadcast.

Since you're new to Twitter you might want to check out my sig below

It's a cliche but it's about your relationship with your followers. 100 responsive followers is better that 10 000 uninterested ones. How you get them and how you treat them is everything.

You need to train your followers that every time they click on one of your links they are going to get something good.

As many as you can, however this does not guarantee you will get traffic. Having a lot of followers is NOT the solution, so I recommend you diversify your efforts. Organize yourself and dedicate some time to each of the traffic generators out there, be it twitter, traffic exchange sites, writing articles, forum commenting, etc. I have found that using a variety of services has brought good, quality and TARGETED traffic. Because that is also important. You do not just want people to click on your site and leave, this will give you a very high bounce rate which you do not want. You want to bring good targeted traffic to your site.

I think 1000+ quality followers is good to start.

Now with lists, it isn't followers, it is how many lists you are on. People with lists just read those. It eliminates the spammers and people that only sell.
once again, quality. Having BOTH is better though.

The problem I see and is being missed is not really how many you follow or follow you but how many the people who follow you are following.

Depending on how many the are following and how many those being followed post, your posts could very well get lost in the flurry of posts.

Like others have shared, it really is about getting a targeted list of followers. If you are just following people in a niche and aren't giving them something to get interested in you, its no different than buying one of those bulk lists of emails (like a million for $20) and spamming away.

Matt

I have a few accounts with Twitter (all that I personally manage and none on auto-pilot) and on one account I have 115 followers with little click-thru rate because most of those followers are spammers or bots.
Another account I have has 62 followers and I have a 40% click-thru rate on every single link I post. They're not friends or family either..total strangers.

Number doesn't matter.. it's the quality of that number.

I have 30,000 followers and can get 3,000 non-buyers to any page I send them to

I don't think the number of followers or fans really make big difference. However, tracking number and types of social media connections is very important. Stick to the basic business rules. If social media is driving more sales, leads, media exposure, or whatever your core success metric is, then the program is successful.

Hope it helps
-Kim

Twitter is the wrong place if you are looking to make sales and get traffic. I learned that the hard way. Social media is a platform where people are looking to discover things instead of having things forced on them.

For Twitter, it's not a numbers game. I believe that it's not the number of followers that you have, it's the responsiveness of your followers. I have less than 400 followers and I've never had good results making affiliate sales, etc. I only ever get a handful of clicks to any Tweet that I send out.

I did come across some cool Twitter software, ViralTweet.com, I haven't setup a Viral Tweet page yet but it's something that I'll do in the near future.

Viral Tweet idea - Setup the Viral Tweet software. (There is a free version and then a premium version with more features.) Then offer a free report or video series for people that retweet your message. A great way to build your followers for a specific niche.

I hope this helps!

it's really not the quantity that matters it is the quality and relatioship you have with the people who are following you

You can get great results just with 100 followers and bad results with 20 000 it all depends on how targeted your followers are.

Thanks,
^PV Reymond

its getting harder to market on Twitter. You used to be able to setup your scheduled tweets and when they ran out you could just have the same canned tweets be sent out again over and over again day after day. Tools to Boost Your Social Media Productivity SocialOomph.com offered a reschedule feature for this but twitter just told them and others to discontinue the recycling of scheduled tweets. You could still do it if you had your own script but most free and paid services are discontinuing that feature as twitter is attempting to cut down on spam.

Its fairly easy to get up to the 2000 following/1900 follower mark.
Then you have to unfollow all those who are not following you so you are following only those who are following you back usually around 1200 followers is what you get from following 2000. Then follow 800 more over the next few days then rinse and repeat to get over the 2000 point.
You could just start a new account each day and run free twitter follower software, to get up to 2000 point in a week. It can all be automated if you want.
Not a lot of buyers but good for free stuff like say your optin.

If you are trying to sell a CB product, or any other product (as opposed to a service) then I recommend another way to market, my friend. One of the most successful Twitter folks is Chris Brogan. I've watched him for over a year. He has over 100K followers now and his career has taken off like a rocket. But he wrote a best selling book recently and he worked his butt off. So, yes, Twitter helped but it did not make him.

Sorry to burst a bubble, if I did.