3 Ways To Engage Your Twitter Followers - With Instant Results!

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Just wanted to share my latest blog post with you guys, I hope you enjoy reading it.

Twitter isn't about how many people follow you, it's about how you connect with the ones that do, what's the point in having a huge following of thousands when they don't care what you are tweeting about. You are better off spending your time trying to connect with your followers, trying to make them interested in what you post and most importantly converting twitter followers to website viewers! So how do we do this? It's really rather simple but it'll take time and effort to engage your followers so you need to be prepared for a bit of hard work! Here we go :

1. Reply, Retweet, Mention!

Interact with your followers, there's no point just tweeting, even if what you are tweeting is interesting, useful and funny, a lot of users will only read your tweets if they know you. So talk to people, if one of your followers says something interesting, reply, and better still reply with a question, hopefully they'll reply back to you and you can start a twitter relationship with them. Retweeting is another way to get noticed, if someone retweets me I see it as a huge compliment so I'll often remember their name or say thanks, which can spark a conversation. Don't be afraid to start the conversation either, admire one of your followers? Ask them a question, compliment them, say something they'll struggle to resist replying too!

2. Be Careful What You Post!

No one likes a moaner, if you are having a bad day keep it to yourself, you don't want to get a bad reputation for being negative on social media, don't be overly positive either. It's okay to criticize but do it in a constructive manner. So what should you post? Keep your tweets interesting, provide value to your followers, ask questions, be friendly and get to the point, which isn't too hard on twitter! Share funny photographs, interesting videos and useful articles that you find and enjoy yourself and most importantly share links to your own website or blog. I always share my newest blog posts on twitter and it gets me a lot of traffic and because I am providing value my followers appreciate the links.

3. Be Polite and Join In!

If someone tweets you or sends you a direct message have the decency to reply to them, even if the follower doesn't seem like a big player in your field or what they say doesn't interest you. You never know what could happen in the future, right now they might be a nobody but in years to come they could be someone you want to be in contact with. Twitter has many little quirks, one of them being Follow Friday - It is a chance for everyone on twitter to share those people who inspire them and encourage other twitter users to follow them too. Just use the #FF hashtag and explain why you enjoy that users tweets, often they'll reply to your tweet or return the favour, it can get conversation flowing or gain you more followers!


I really hope you enjoyed the article guys, any feedback would be appreciated, just don't be too mean
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  • Profile picture of the author andrewbenjee
    Hi Kevin, this post of your's was very useful and specially this #FF Follow Friday was really an Awesome Tip!Thanks a Ton Kevin, will try this on a new Twitter account I have created and give you the feedback how it went.
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    • Profile picture of the author KevinChapman
      Originally Posted by andrewbenjee View Post

      Hi Kevin, this post of your's was very useful and specially this #FF Follow Friday was really an Awesome Tip!Thanks a Ton Kevin, will try this on a new Twitter account I have created and give you the feedback how it went.
      That's great Andrew, so pleased that you liked the post and found it useful. Make sure you keep in contact with how it goes!
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  • Profile picture of the author fpdeziner
    Very nice tips I will keep them in mind for my future works on twitter.. Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author SuccessMarketer
    I am not -in any way- a Twitter master (please do not check my small twitter following! ) but I think that another strategy that would probably work well is to add a "@" followed by the "username" of the person that now follows you and make a genuine nice comment of something you may like or admire about that person.

    This will get seen not only by your followers but by the person in question!

    ie; "@whateverusername This guy is really inspirational, I love his latest book!"

    Great post btw, will try and implement
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    • Profile picture of the author KevinChapman
      Originally Posted by SuccessMarketer View Post

      I am not -in any way- a Twitter master (please do not check my small twitter following! ) but I think that another strategy that would probably work well is to add a "@" followed by the "username" of the person that now follows you and make a genuine nice comment of something you may like or admire about that person.

      This will get seen not only by your followers but by the person in question!

      ie; "@whateverusername This guy is really inspirational, I love his latest book!"

      Great post btw, will try and implement
      Thanks for the great tip, flattery will get you everywhere!
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  • Profile picture of the author ReferralCandy
    Useful post, KevinChapman!

    Maintaining and increasing the quality of interactions with Twitter followers is very similar to any relationship out there:

    Be sincere and polite, put in the time and effort to understand and interact with them, listen to them instead of constantly talking, and to encourage and praise.
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    • Profile picture of the author KevinChapman
      Originally Posted by ReferralCandy View Post

      Useful post, KevinChapman!

      Maintaining and increasing the quality of interactions with Twitter followers is very similar to any relationship out there:

      Be sincere and polite, put in the time and effort to understand and interact with them, listen to them instead of constantly talking, and to encourage and praise.
      Exactly, just because you are talking to someone online doesn't mean you should lose your manners!
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  • Profile picture of the author ViralMediaBoost
    These are great pieces of advice, particularly the part that people should learn how to interact with others properly. The problem with many is that they keep on posting and tweeting without acknowledging what others have to say. They also don't know how to accept other people's opinion and may not notice they are becoming extremely rude. If you see them doing something wrong, be careful with how you say it or there will be a lot of people who will get turned off by you without you even noticing it.
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    • Profile picture of the author KevinChapman
      Originally Posted by ViralMediaBoost View Post

      These are great pieces of advice, particularly the part that people should learn how to interact with others properly. The problem with many is that they keep on posting and tweeting without acknowledging what others have to say. They also don't know how to accept other people's opinion and may not notice they are becoming extremely rude. If you see them doing something wrong, be careful with how you say it or there will be a lot of people who will get turned off by you without you even noticing it.
      Thanks for the advice, it's so easy to get into petty arguments online and especially on twitter with everyone seeing your tweets it doesn't reflect well on you.
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  • Profile picture of the author yesjack
    Very nice and useful tips, thank you for posting.
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