What can I do better to grow my Twitter page?

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I'll begin this post with the preface that I now fully understand that there is no "get rich quick" scheme (aside from pure luck) for growing an engaged Twitter page. It takes hard work and luck to hit it big.

I've been running a Twitter page for the past month and a half or so - www.twitter.com/mustseepics

Over that time frame, I've managed to gather almost 1,400 followers which isn't bad for the first month and a half-ish of the page. That being said, I (like many others) have set the lofty goal of hitting the magical 1,000,000 Follower mark on Twitter.

I've been averaging about 25 new followers per day. The hope is that, with time, more followers = more people engaging = exponentially more followers. That being said, at my current growth rate, it would take me over a century to hit my goal.

I've been doing a lot of digging, reading and forum posting (like this) across the internet lately, and every page I'm finding seems to be the same re-canning of the same advice:
  • "Follow relevant people"
    "Post often"
    "Retweet others"
    "Be consistent"
    "Provide content people want to engage with"

Other than a couple I'm forgetting, that's essentially what the hundreds of articles out there syndicate. There's other routes where you can just be very spammy on twitter (i.e. "RETWEET THIS NOW #TFB #TeamFollowBack #FollowBack #FF #500daily blah blah) or you can buy followers which just raises the number (which can often fall back down) without raising engagement.

Now, again, I know that there's no magical formula and that any real effort to hit that million mark will be very, VERY difficult to achieve. Are there any tips or things I should try that I'm not?

For context's sake, I'm posting about 2 dozen times per day via Buffer in 30 min / 1hr increments, all images (public domain or w/ legal permission from photographers for legal reasons) for max engagement, aggressive following (just trying to not get caught by Twitter) with relevant users (I go to other page sharing websites and follow users who engage with their pics and have a high amount of followers themselves) and periodic individual engagement with users.

Maybe I should go back to the drawing board and try with a new topic. It's far too early to throw in the towel, but maybe my topic is too broad? Maybe I should hone in on a more specific subset of images (animals as opposed to general pics, dogs as opposed to animals, puppies as opposed to dogs, etc.)? I'm not really sure. I'm a big numbers guy, and it's a bit depressing when I see it clearly laid out how difficult of a task I'm trying to accomplish here.
#grow #page #twitter
  • Profile picture of the author Rashell
    I kinda don't get it. Why must I see these pics?

    I'm probably missing something...

    Given the images you've chosen I'd probably change the twitter handle to mustseeplaces and try the angle of getting people to retweet to 'add the location to their bucket list". Or something like that. I guess I'd just try to give people a fun reason to interact with my page.

    Not sure if that helps,

    Rashell

    OK So I read your blog. You're trying to do an EarthPics or HistoryInPics type account? In that case you might want to change the twitter handle to OurBigWorld or EarthIsAmazing.

    When I see names like those I expect to be marveled and to share the marvelous things I find.

    When I go to MustSeePics I just think to myself "why must I see them?". And if they don't meet my "must see" expectations then I move on.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rashell
      OK So some ideas...

      1. Focus on creating shareable & share worthy content
      create a few quotes as images (people like to share quotes)
      host a contest - everyone who tweets/retweets gets an entry
      share a pic and ask if they can guess where it is
      share a pic and have a caption oontest

      2. Hire Engagement till it comes naturally
      use Twitter Ads (aka Promoted Tweets)
      use SponsoredTweets to hire influencers to retweet to their twitter following for you
      use Fiverr to hire a few people to retweet to their twitter following for you
      there are other freelance and microjob sites out there to hire from

      3. Create a few more accounts and criss-cross "retweets" between them.

      These are just ideas I'm tossing at you so use what you will, toss the rest.

      Rashell
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      • Profile picture of the author Snowfall
        Originally Posted by Rashell View Post

        OK So some ideas...

        1. Focus on creating shareable & share worthy content
        create a few quotes as images (people like to share quotes)
        host a contest - everyone who tweets/retweets gets an entry
        share a pic and ask if they can guess where it is
        share a pic and have a caption oontest

        2. Hire Engagement till it comes naturally
        use Twitter Ads (aka Promoted Tweets)
        use SponsoredTweets to hire influencers to retweet to their twitter following for you
        use Fiverr to hire a few people to retweet to their twitter following for you
        there are other freelance and microjob sites out there to hire from

        3. Create a few more accounts and criss-cross "retweets" between them.

        These are just ideas I'm tossing at you so use what you will, toss the rest.

        Rashell
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  • Profile picture of the author tiyashakhan
    Twitter is a popular social networking.There are lot of crowds. You can get response & feedback from others.For this you have to create very strong profile page by following others profile, like others post etc.Post interesting that user have to find the post is useful . This is my opinion only.I can say that I did this & get a good result.
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