I really want to get more followers

You could link your twitter account to your Facebook or email accounts. Create a personal contact list and follow them so they will follow you too. Do not try to follow twitter accounts of famous people, it will get you nowhere. Or, you could pay someone from the gig sites and ask them to get more twitter followers. Best of luck!

There are many ways to get more followers.
- use hashtags in your tweets, especially mem tags and tags popular at the moment
- follow people, reply to their tweet, retweet them
- post tweets that people will want to retweet
- share valuable content
- ask effective questions to your followers to engage them
- post pictures and photos
- start a contest on twitter
- follow the top users to see what they are doing and pick ideas from them.

Do you want more followers always be a rock in social media contest. Familiar like Facebook...!!!

If you follow regular people some of the will follow you back, so you could receive some hundreds of followers this way.

The best way to get followers are social media exchange sites, Follow Team Backs.. etc..

1. Let them know you exist by following the relevant accounts and biggest players in your niche
2. Don't spam everyone a link. People can check your timeline with a click on your profile and see your 3 most recent tweets. Do you think they'll follow if you sent the same tweet to them and 50 other people? You may not do this, but some people do.
3. Tweet interesting stuff. Tweet things worth reading. People don't want to follow a robot, they want to follow a person.
4. Retweet interesting stuff. Same as above and preferably do it from your existing followers if you can.
5. Go off topic sometimes. Again we don't want to follow a robot. Or a corporation for that matter. No, corporations aren't people. When was the last time you talked with Coca Cola about relationship problems? This makes you relatable and they'll know a human is running the account.
6. Why should I follow you? You need to know the answer to this one.

What's your Twitter account? I'll follow you

Seriously though, if I see what you're doing now I can offer some advice.

...and you end up with a bunch of people following you who are doing exactly what you are doing and who have no interest in what you're doing and who are hoping you have interest in what they are doing just like you are hoping of them. That's assuming they are actually people and not follow-bots

always post new content and post help to other people in your niche market but on the competitors pages. I love doing that and i seem to convert people to my expertise in no time

Try these things:
*add only relevant followers
*make use of twitter tools like tools to track your keywords, how to choose the right followers, etc
*always post to twitter
*avoid sales talk and instead 'humanize' your posts- meaning try to help and connect to people in a personal tone
*also provide shoutouts to your followers

Tweet sense, preferably on something niche of your interest. I have seen that that can really get you more followers

Follow other people -- especially those with picture avatars rather than the generic Twitter icon.
Share information that can be beneficial to other users, such as information you learned about a website you tried.
Use the "@reply" method when responding to other people.
Get involved in online events that include #hashtags.
Refrain from Tweeting too much.

My highest conversion rate comes from just saying, "good tweet. enjoyed it." to random people who tweet about subjects I do.

try it.

youlikehits is quite a good source

Everyone above has great ideas. I think great ways are to purchase twitter followers if you are trying to build credibility and legitimacy to your account. (check the cig) After this some other creative ideas is doing seo for your page with some good keywords. It should rank relatively fast because twitter has such high authority. You can also be a gues blogger and write some articles for different blogs and website and in your author profiel put your twitter link. This way if the blog post gets ranked well you should have some traffic towards your page!

Hope i helped!

Firstly don't buy Twitter followers, they won't be targetted and will purely just be vanity - unless of course you're looking for that but let's remember it doesn't = money!

I wrote a blog post on how to get more Twitter followers here.

Bear in mind I have over 70,000 followers I like to think I practice what I preach. It takes time to build up a loyal following and the key to having a successful Twitter account is by giving value and sharing great content. Do that and you're see the best results.

Don't buy followers... pretty much anyone who's an actual social influencer is using the StatusPeople fake follower check. Once someone has called you out for having fake followers, you lose all credibility.

If you want followers, give something of value worth following. I built up a following of about 11,000 over the last two years - certainly not a "brag worthy" number, but they're real and ENGAGED. They retweet my stuff, they click my links. There is value there. When I launched a new startup recently I had 1,000 signups within 3 days and 2,500 within the week, just by notifying my Twitter and LinkedIn connections.

"ooh, wow, that guy has X followers, he must be important!" -- No one

Fake followers bring no value. Purchased followers bring no value. People on fiverr who buy fake followers, then post gigs claiming to tweet your message to their followers bring no value.

I think that there are a lot of quality blog posts about the subject by people who also have a large amount of twitter followers.

They must be doing something right, so take a look at some of these articles and start doing what they advise.

Google "How to increase twitter followers" or something and you should find some interesting blog posts.

Good luck

Sure, the accuracy is arguable, but it favors the REAL followers not the fake ones. It's not going to report someone with a bunch of real followers as being 90% fake, but it could overlook some fake followers and count them as real. So while you can't guarantee legitimacy with StatusPeople, you CAN see who the fakers are.

Another good check... compare Facebook and Twitter counts. When you see 200,000 facebook likes and 500 Twitter followers, it's a good bet they're buying Likes, or vice versa. Yes I know they are different audiences, and sometimes you'll get more out of one than the other depending on the nature of what you're posting, but a simple "human check" goes a long way.

But anyway, back on topic... if you want to attract REAL followers, give them something of value. Start with the "trending" tags on the left side of twitter - look at what's trending, say something relevant, and use that tag. Do that regularly and you're likely to pick up a few followers and retweets from there.

Give your followers something worth reading, and worth sharing. That's all it comes down to.

Interact with others, share useful information, don't put a link in every single post, re-tweet great content from others and most of all, be interesting.

I've found that it takes an average of 15 tweets per day to start generating interest in your niche. And it's best to send them out when your audience is most active. A great little tool to do all of this is Buffer.

Okay following others is the best way to target followers.
You will want to pick out a few leaders in your industry and follow their followers.
If you follow too many too fast you can get your account suspended. You used to be able to follow around 250 a day, now it is best to keep it under 150 I find.
If you follow the people who RT that person tweets it is more targeted than just following their followers out right.
You can unfollow unfollowers and you will want to for many reasons. You can use JustUnfollow.com but I have had some problems with them, besides they cost too much now. So instead I check everyday if I can direct message them. 99.99% of the time that means they are following me back, if not I unfollow them. Then I sometimes check friendorfollow.com to unfollow more recent unfollows.
I have found using #teamfollowback works but the quality follower is definitely less targeted and responsive. I suppose there is always a chance that if you know the #teamfollowback ground intimately you might be able to sell them something based on their interests, maybe cell phones or some kind of hip hop music or dating site or something.

If you just want to have more followers for the look, there are plenty of cheap mycheapjobs and fiverr sources that will load your followers section with bots to make it look like you have a huge following for like $5 or $10, but if you want to buy legitimate followers, I would probably best trust a site like justunfollow.com or better yet what I would actually use is twiends.com.
If the site promises they will never unfollow you that probably means 99.99% chance they are not really REAL.
I hope that helps if so please press thanks; It will help my profile. Thanks!

This is all great advice. The one piece of advice I see repeating is CONSISTENCY. If you want long-term results that pay off it will take time to gain followers. Identify who the major players are in your niche and follow their followers. Then find the best times to tweet your messages based on location. Tweet about 4-5 times a day and don't just tweet out sales messages, you have to really engage in conversations with people. If you use something like Twilert, it will send you an email to let you know who has engaged with your tweets. It's important to tweet back to those that mention, retweet, or favorite your tweets. Hashtags are crucial, you can find a lot of relevant info by using the advanced search feature on twitter so use it wisely.

Never miss a good opportunity to link with a keyword I guess, but that article is just about one tool. Obviously the title makes it sound like a list of tools.

Go to Socialoomph.com, They have a great system and it's not that expensive, about 15 bucks a month... You can put the settings to search for keywords for people to follow, and will also follow you back.. Let me know how it goes..

Try www.fansforsocialmedia.com

Follow more people. Tweet value. Unfollow those who don't follow within the next couple of days. Rinse and repeat.