How to increase Twitter Followers

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What strategies have you employed to gain twitter followers that have been successful? I'd appreciate input. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author rswami65
    Exchange Followers.
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  • Profile picture of the author chawk
    yeah I have spent hours following people to get follows back. However that type of worthless traffic does not convert. I would recommend only following people that are in your niche. You probably won't get as many follow backs but at least it will be convertible traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jelanib
      Thanks Chawk, I'm really interested in getting targeted traffic. I don't want to balloon my numbers with insignificant followers. I was reading somewhere that search engines consider the # of followers that you have so that is why I've been focused on finding quality over quantity.

      I think it is pretty amazing how some people are able to get tens of thousand of followers. I just wonder how many of those engage. If only a few portion, what are the benefits of that?
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  • Profile picture of the author h4wts
    Ego bait.

    Write an awesome blog post mentioning key influencers in your niche and reference their awesome input.

    Tweet these people saying you blogged about them.

    Wait for the RTs and mentions (and links back if you're lucky).
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  • Profile picture of the author hephaestion
    Tweeting at someone is very effective. Engage people on twitter, even if they aren't your followers yet. Participate in and start conversations related to your business. Often you'll get a retweet and a few followers. I know a guy who built his mailing list from nothing to like 50,000 and this is where he started.
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  • Profile picture of the author SocialMediaOwls
    Buy good quality fake accounts and then mass follow targeted people
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    • Profile picture of the author Joe_Chuck
      Follow others in the same niche, post often (without spamming nonsense) use hashtags wisely, people will follow you back and others will find you.. Before you know it you will have a much larger base of followers then people you are following
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    • Profile picture of the author G0nzalez
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      Originally Posted by SocialMediaOwls View Post

      Buy good quality fake accounts and then mass follow targeted people
      I tried this and it didn't work. I made that mistake: to buy fake account, and will not repeat it again.

      The simple way to get followers is to follow influential people form your niche, tweet, retweet, interact with them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    Follow all that people who is related to you niche and post valuable post.
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  • Profile picture of the author rejionline
    Just follow more persons ... Some of them will surely follow you..
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  • Profile picture of the author doriono
    1. Do keyword research
    2. Use advanced search function on Twitter to find targeted twitter accounts who are twitting about your niche or keywords
    3. Follow them so that they can follow you back
    4. Use tweepi to remove those who did not follow you back after 3-4 working days.
    5. Follow people who had twitted in last 24 hours about your chosen keyword
    6. Use specific hashtags when posting.

    There is a long list of activities which I can suggest but for now just start with above 6 steps. Remember it is always better to have only 10 followers who are highly engaged and helpful for your business rather than buying 10000 followers for $20 USD.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jelanib
      Originally Posted by doriono View Post

      1. Do keyword research
      2. Use advanced search function on Twitter to find targeted twitter accounts who are twitting about your niche or keywords
      3. Follow them so that they can follow you back
      4. Use tweepi to remove those who did not follow you back after 3-4 working days.
      5. Follow people who had twitted in last 24 hours about your chosen keyword
      6. Use specific hashtags when posting.

      There is a long list of activities which I can suggest but for now just start with above 6 steps. Remember it is always better to have only 10 followers who are highly engaged and helpful for your business rather than buying 10000 followers for $20 USD.
      Thanks Dorino! This really helps. I've been building a following slowly with interaction with influential people in my niche. I was a little concerned about amassing those large numbers that I see with others. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author zaidhamid
    In your email signature you must include a link to your twitter account. make following you is easy.
    when someone visiting your facebook then make it easy for for visitor to see a icon of your twitter account and best place in your facebook is in About section.
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  • Profile picture of the author datingworld
    The following might help you.
    --Follow more people for them to follow you.
    --Share some interesting videos on youtube and put your Twitter details there.
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  • Profile picture of the author ReferralCandy
    Developing influence on Twitter is harder than I thought it would be! You need to be delivering good content that other people are genuinely interested in. I've gotten an increase in followers lately after publishing and sharing some blogposts.

    I think h4wts' advice works. People are more interested in themselves and other people than they are interested in abstract ideas, so it really helps to be specific and concrete. I prefer to think of this as "human connection" rather than "ego bait", but it's essentially the same thing. Social networks are about people.

    Just remember to make sure that your content is good, useful, relevant! Also, Favorites can function kind of like Likes, they get you noticed- so use them! And reply to real people when you see stuff you like. Say good things, be human and friendly. You may not always get responses, but it's inevitably worth it when you do.

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    • Profile picture of the author Jelanib
      Originally Posted by ReferralCandy View Post

      Developing influence on Twitter is harder than I thought it would be! You need to be delivering good content that other people are genuinely interested in. I've gotten an increase in followers lately after publishing and sharing some blogposts.

      I think h4wts' advice works. People are more interested in themselves and other people than they are interested in abstract ideas, so it really helps to be specific and concrete. I prefer to think of this as "human connection" rather than "ego bait", but it's essentially the same thing. Social networks are about people.

      Just remember to make sure that your content is good, useful, relevant! Also, Favorites can function kind of like Likes, they get you noticed- so use them! And reply to real people when you see stuff you like. Say good things, be human and friendly. You may not always get responses, but it's inevitably worth it when you do.

      Cheers
      Referral Candy, I agree! It's just basics of social interaction. I was just concerned with the "get followers quick" schemes. I personally value organic and engaged followers. Thanks, this is reassuring!
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  • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
    Increasing twitter followers that are useless to you is easy (plenty of advice on that above)

    Increasing twitter followers that actually are useful to have and read and act on your tweets is much much harder ... and that all comes down to the quality of what you tweet.

    I only follow ~30 people on twitter as I want to read what they have to say. Think about the tweets that come from the people you want to hear from --> emulate them.
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  • Profile picture of the author jaintechnosoft
    If your posting interesting information user every you will give god information user will follow you easily, so try it like that
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    • Profile picture of the author Elena21
      Target Power Tweeters
      Utilize Good Karma
      Tweet During Rush Hour
      Follow Other People
      Interact with your Followers
      Be a Resource
      Follow other People with the same Interest
      you can also buy followers from sites like SEOclerks.
      Make people Aware
      Utilize the Hash Tag
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    • Profile picture of the author krad32
      Originally Posted by yoangov View Post

      Exchange followers or buy them
      I believe exchanging followers is a good idea but buying them won't be that good.
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  • Profile picture of the author mcb247
    Follow only active users .... see when they last tweeted if over a month ago ... move on to next one.. also only follow people in your niche think this is a godsay but thought I would mention it ... have always found twitter to be low quality traffic though .. hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author ConnectVT
    Follow people > They will follow you back > Unfollow people who do not follow you back. Repeat it daily for 50 followers.
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  • Profile picture of the author avowzone
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    Follow, Tweet, Retweet and Favorite is the key to success in twitter. At first follow your niche related people then tweet interesting content then retweet others tweet who are talking about same topics finally favorite others tweet and make comment. Hope you will get number of followers everyday.
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  • Profile picture of the author st0nec0ld
    Here are some of my strategies to get followers on twitter:

    1. Follow only relevant twitter users that follows more people than having more followers. And make sure to check if they are tweeting frequently.
    2. As much as possible participate and use trending hashtags.
    3. Tweet and retweet.
    4. Follow popular people/celebrities.
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  • Profile picture of the author azmera
    You can use addmefast.com for more followers.
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  • Profile picture of the author StevenGarcia
    You have two option ,you can go through manual way by doing yourself with proper activity daily basis on Twitter or you can hire a professional for such a getting likes and followers. For both way you can go through manual and automation process with proper tool. its up to you which way you want to go to promote your product. I personally fever of both method to get higher traffic on the site from real users.
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  • Profile picture of the author Charli
    Use HootSuite or TweetDeck or any free tool that will help schedule you post.

    I gained 160 organic followers in 2 months by 'engaging' in conversation. If someone posted something, I read their article, looked at their photo/video, made a 'relevant' reply. They noticed and mentioned me on post. Their friends noticed. It just builds weekly.

    Engage. Engage. Engage. Don't just post.
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  • Profile picture of the author onconference
    Tweet often, at the right times of day:
    Nobody wants to follow someone who never tweets, therefore it's important to remain consistently active on twitter. You should have a minimum of one post per day and ideally two posts per day to maximize your visibility in the Twitterverse.

    Use hashtags:
    Using hashtags is a great way to connect to people with similar interests and to increase the visibility of your tweets.

    You can also buy a Followers from freelancers sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author jason56270
    You should go onto people that tweet about the same kinds of things that you do, and follow alot of their followers. You could also go on someone like your favorite celebrity and follow their most recent followers. Alot of these people will follow back.
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Mayers
    Hey,

    Traffic exchanges do work to increase Twitter followers. However, many of them from traffic exchanges are fake profiles. I found this Forbes article that gives some really useful tips on how to build a massive Twitter following.

    Hope this helps you out!

    -Josh
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  • Profile picture of the author WebOutGateway
    Originally Posted by Jelanib View Post

    What strategies have you employed to gain twitter followers that have been successful? I'd appreciate input. Thanks!

    First, it is an old story: Make creative, engaging post. Imagine reading a post that leads you follow a person. people tends to follow a person because of what they do.

    Also, Like the other mentioned, follow people, they'll follow you back!
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  • Profile picture of the author Copper11
    Post regularly. Make interesting and engaging tweets. Follow your industry leaders, retweet people. Be active.
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  • Profile picture of the author stuartdell92
    Use hashtags so that other users can find you. Also, try to follow back user as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author ppscslv
    The safest way to get more Twitter followers is to engage with people from your niche and via htags (or via Twitter ads).
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  • Profile picture of the author MrTwoFister
    Follow, and you will get followers.
    Retweet.
    Be active - but keep them interesting. Think buzz.
    Promote your twitter on other social networking sites you use.
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  • Profile picture of the author hotto
    Follow the people who are in your niche, and follow the people who follow them.
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  • Profile picture of the author rishisab
    1. Place your twitter widget on your website.

    2. Join a conversation and help other users out on twitter

    3. Use websites like twiends and traffup
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  • Profile picture of the author dubaichiro
    Follow more interactive followers and your can increase those following you too. Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author dgui123451
    You can use two methods, you can pay a freelancer to provide thousands of twitter followers or you can use a like exchange website.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by arifpolash View Post

      there have two ways to increase twitter followers .No 1. you can use software .No.2 .If you follow someone ,they will follow you .
      What about posting tweets that have info that people actually want to receive?

      1. Using software just gets you a lot of followers that will never bother reading what you post.
      2. I NEVER follow anyone just because they follow me.

      I only follow 150 people/companies as they post what I want to be informed of. If I add a new followers, I delete one to keep it at 150. Any more than 150, I can not keep up.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChristyTaylor
    Here are some valuable tips for increasing Twitter Followers.
    1. Create Valuable Content
    2. Comment on relevant news/tweets
    3. Retweet relevant content
    4. Events to Engage
    5. Ask for Retweets
    6. Promote Responsibly
    7. Countdowns
    8. Twitter-Exclusive content, contests and promotions
    9. Two-sided Conversations
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  • Profile picture of the author Alphaxiom
    Share information with perfect hash tags. Twitter is basically known for latest news. Share it asap and be active on twitter, Follow , re tweet , do DMs, Favorites,. This will be helpful gaining followers safely.
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  • Profile picture of the author jariSm
    For start, dot't buy fake account, but you can use "add me fast"- it's an exchanging platform. you like pages on facebook or follow on twitter, then you gain points and with that points you get back folowers on twitter or likers on facebook.. it wont increase your traffic, but it will show your business as bigger with lots of likes/followers. Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinhy
    I increased my followers a lot by using Klout and Buffer to post interesting content in my niche.

    It actually works quite well as the people are interested in your stuff and follows you.

    Rather than force following with follow backs etc...
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