People Are Unfollowing Me Faster Than Following!

Question... Do you use the hash mark to id your niches? I did this the other day, I haven't really been effective at twitter marketing, on two posts and in one hour added 15 followers. Don't take me as an example but the was my limited experience. That and adding niche keywords to my profile.

You could use Twiends to get good followers. It's free to use and it works great. They also have a great selection of "Credits" Packages you can buy to get a Massive amount of QUALITY followers which won't unfollow you right after you constantly.

Thanks for the tips guys!

Awhile back I read a post from someone with tons of followers who advised you to immediately follow anyone who follows you first, and you should follow new people who haven't followed you yet but to unfollow them if they don't follow you back shortly.

This is all good and well, but the person who said this has tons of followers, yet they only have a handful of people whom they follow. It's like a 1 to 1000 ratio.

So is the real key to follow everyone in the early days of your blog and twitter profile when you're still unknown, then you can start dropping people once you're developing a serious authoritative name in your niche for yourself?

You're saying write #greenenergy if I'm targeting green energy. Yeah I do that but some of my keywords are like 3 or 4 words long, and I doubt that anyone is searching for something like #potatosouprecipes. So I don't know the best way to go about that.

Why would you want to follow anyone whose tweets do not interest you?

And vice versa, why would you want anyone to follow you who does not want to follow you?

I follow about 1500 people. Nearly 5000 follow me.

I never auto-follow anyone following me. I am afraid to let marketers pollute my timeline with trash. Nevertheless, I primarily only follow marketers -- marketers who offer real value to me.

Twiends is good, and worth using. I have been membered at Twiends for about 4 days, and I have picked up 400 new followers in that time.

Yes, I did purchase credits in the system, so that helps me attract more people. Those who like what I tweet will stay. Those who don't like what I tweet can and should move on.

I set up an auto-follow when I first signed up to Twitter, so if someone follows me, I automatically follow them back... after getting 10,000 followers I realized that over 90% of them are not "people". Those are just accounts that post spam of sort, mostly and do not care about what you post. They simply don't read what's on twitter... so it's really useless to have all those "followers".

You need to tweet more than once a day to engage your followers. Go into hashtags that are in your niche and respond to people with an intelligent response with no link. Do this to 25-50 people a day and your following will stabilize. Twitter right now is about a quality following not quantity. Do 9 conversational tweets to every tweet with a link. With some steady work you can get 500 quality followers in a month and with word of mouth(retweets) you can get to 2000 in 2 months. You'll get targeted traffic this way instead of talking into the wind.

Twitter is getting overloaded with bot accounts and the follower blaster accounts that the marketing companies are using to sell people "500 followers instantly" type services. Work on real people and your twitter campaign will be a success.

Best wishes

The secret to maintaining followers and getting new ones is to only tweet when you have something important to say. Otherwise you are simply clogging up people's twitter accounts with spam and they will unfollow you. No one will unfollow you while you aren't tweeting.

Oh My!! I'm sorry to hear that. Perhaps you are marketing too heavily?? Ask your followers specific questions and tell them you are here for them. Get them involved in what you're doing, but ask them what they like or don't like and then deliver the goods. I've been watching patterns on Twitter and it seems as though people on youtube have a lot more success with Twitter. They even post videos asking people to put questions on their Twitter. This encourages people to visit Twitter and youtube videos. Ask them what they like, don't like etc.... I hope this helps. Don't spam your followers. Just give them what they want.

Your followers don't agree. Whenever someone unfollows you, it's because they don't think you're worth following. This is usually because of whatever you most recently tweeted.

Sometimes it is because you didn't follow them back, but honestly, those people aren't really your followers anyway. Don't encourage them. Do you think celebrities follow everyone else back? Hell no.

Your audience will self-select over time. Just keep saying what you want to say, only following whom you want to follow, and you'll gradually accumulate people who want to hear from you.

Im gonna get slated here but my approach to twitter is not to narrow down to my niche! WTF people may say! I use Twitter as part of alot bigger picture in the idea that "everyone is a buyer". I suppose this is a niche in a way. I target everyone. If people could access ways to make money, i know i would take it? Everyone chases money no matter how you look at it. Never assume someone doesnt want to buy off you just because they dont lie in a particular niche. Theres a hell of alot of crossover between niches.

Agree with all your points tpw! However i just said my mindset is that everyones a buyer, not that every is actually a buyer! This is impossible. It just works for me. Ive trialed a few things with twitter. This method paid of pretty well. I think i got around 12 referrals in a week for a Backlink product. My retention is really good too. Mind you i dont just tweet about a niche. I like to tweet about current affairs etc. Seems to keep people interested in and around the real aims. I currently get around 1000 followers per week roughly. Not many of those leave. I create a brand around myself, and then filter down the funnel like i said before. Seems to be a good part of a multi component approach. All interesting stuff anyways

Rule #1 - NO AUTOMATION!!! Excluding sending an automated "thanks for following" message, but make sure that they know its automated

Rule #2 - Connect with your followers. Ask what they want, and deliver what they want. Ask questions, encourage discussion, make sure that they know that you are human, and that you are at their disposal. @reply them as much as possible, and have real conversations with them.

Rule #3 - Only follow those who are of interest to you. Autofollows are worthless. You can have 50 followers, and you will get more interaction than you ever will from 30,000 autofollows.

Rule #4 - Break your content up. Send a few links here and there, and talk to your followers here and there. Look for an even distribution.

As a sidenote, I have around 370 or so followers on my personal account, and I dont really focus on getting more followers. I just do what I do, and I can have a conversation with my followers every day. It's called "Social Media" for a very good reason, and having said that, you can assume that people are on "Social Media" because they want to be "Social". They aren't on there because they want to click the links that you send to them. They want to get to know you, and have a conversation with you.

Hope that helps.

Just like what the other folks told yah I think your followers are not interested in what you tweet or whatever your niche might be. Try to talk about other stuff as well that your followers can relate with.

Andrea