Today I shall list down few steps that have helped me to increase the number of followers:
Egg-head is the default image that Twitter give. Maybe you have liked it & would not want to change, but we would like to know the person sharing content. No pets, no monuments and no scenic locales. We would like to know YOU.
Provide like of your blog or company URL or Facebook Page. They should know what else to follow. Also, these turns out to be a good SEO exercise. Ensure that you put up the “tweet” button or “Follow me on Twitter” button on those sites
#3. Follow the leaders and build connections
Whatever your choice of subject, follow the leaders & get an understanding of what they share. This will give you a fair idea of what the acceptable norms of content sharing is within that domain. But do not stop yourself at just following the leaders, build connections with other users whose content you find interesting
#4. Start sharing content
In a given day, you would be reading a lot and gathering information on your choice of subject. Share all these meaningful content. Preferably, it should be links, because given the 140 char limit of Twitter, you might not be able to convey the entire message. So, lead your followers to information. Use the URL shortening services like bit.ly, ow.ly or goo.gl and many others. Twitter has recently started shortening the URLs using its own t.co service too
#5. Tweet Regularly
This step should in fact be high up the order. Remember, your followers are expecting information from you. Keep sharing, and once you share regularly, they will know where to look out for any new happenings or get information on the subject. You can use services of Hootsuite or Tweetdeck to schedule your tweets
#6. Repeat your Tweets
Something that I learnt very late, and this was while listening to Guy Kawasaki. Do repeat you tweet, as you would never know which part of the world is following you. A tweet in the US day time would hardly be seen in the timeline of someone in India, unless it is repeated in their day time.
#7. Engage within the domain
Try to get yourself heard. Engage in the various conversations happening over Twitter & share your point of view. Chances are, few of the readers will like it & start following you.
#8. Do not SPAM
Whatever your reason of joining Twitter, make sure you do not SPAM the followers. This is a strict No-no.
#9. Ask questions
Another form of engagement is to ask your followers some questions or set up a poll. You can then share the results over your blog.
#10. Thank followers, re-tweeters
But make sure these are done as direct message. Other followers are not interested in whom you have thanked & once you reach a certain number of users, your timeline shall be filled with these messages instead of the content incase they are public messages.
Thanks for reading through. I can be reached on Twitter @malharbarai
Do leave your comments & I would be happy to engage.
#0. No one likes an egg- head (yes, I have deliberately number it 0 as this is the most important step)
Give a brief description of yourself, your interest/passion. Potential followers do read the bio besides reading your content.