How to get followers to follow your Twitter?

Unless you post like I do. I think I scare away about half my followers. I picture them going, "Now there's a sensible marketer with some good info." Then, they come back the next day, read some silly tripe I've posted and yell, "RUN AWAY!"

Seriously, if you want lots of followers do not use my Twittering as a guide to your own. Unless of course you want to be labeled "lunatic".

Rich Dirty Girl is a genius. My only caveat: all the imaginary characters from Batman are following me and I followed them back just for amusement purposes. But following them won't help your IM efforts at all. Also, AlmightyGod is following me, so I followed him back just to be on the safe side. Ha ha. I don't know how much He can help your internet marketing efforts. Other than that I think that most people who follow me, and who I am following, are internet marketers.

One way would be if you start a thread about Twitter in an Internet Marketing forum to have something similar to "Are You Following Me Yet?" and a link to your twitter page in your sig.

Most of the ways I've been getting signups have been mentioned. I try to post interesting things in between my ramblings.. and just have fun.

But in the beginning especially I used Twellow; the other day I popped in there and added a half a dozen and many of them followed me back.. I also just found others who were being followed by a lot of people and I followed the best of those.

I don't just follow anyone though.. does it matter? Don't know.. this is just how I approach it.

..and maybe this is something to note.

I try and follow people that follow me. I like to reciprocate.

But, I don't follow those that:

-- Are just posting ads
-- Are just posting to their blog articles and/or other links.. no personality.
-- And.. if someone has something like 1997 people they are following and are being followed by 180.. or something along those lines. They probably just joined, are mass following to get followers and could care less about what I'm saying so why should I bother? (I'm trying to nurture and build a high quality follower list)

So don't do those things and do more than promote your stuff and I'm peraonally likely to follow you.

I also include Follow Me links in my sigs.. and even in my e-mail sigs to my list. No reason not to cross pollinate. Be creative..

Good Luck!

I just checked my twitter and found out got 4 persons following me, I follow them back and also added some of their followers, I think that's a good start

My interpretation would be just talk about your daily life - I talked about how my Panasonic Lumix camera died last night just as I was heading out to my son's JRTOC promotion ceremony, I talk about how I just sent a bunch of articles out to a client, I talk about how my dogs refuse to let me sleep in late on weekends - I try to be humourous, and not just talk about work.

Upside - if people are searching www.search.twitter.com to find people who are talking about cameras, they will come across my Tweet about my camera and may follow me. Downside - These people aren't necessarily interested in internet marketing and may have no potential to become clients or buyers.