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Increase Your Twitter Followers

Twitter is a micro blogging platform which allows you to publish short messages of less than 140 characters through different mediums like cell phones, web and the IM. It is similar to an IRC channel although messages are displayed less rapidly. Some have called it a slower version of internet messengers. It has a social element as well, as it allows users to befriend and monitor each other’s messages or updates. So what you have here is a publishing tool that can be either public or private. In this article The Geeks will discuss few tips on how to grow the numbers of Twitter Followers

1. Fill out your bio. Your bio is the only place you have to tell people who you are. Your latest tweets and @replies don’t mean much to someone that doesn’t know you. Also, your bio is displayed on Twitter’s Suggested Users page. Leaving it blank or non-descriptive doesn’t encourage people to add you.
2. Explain to your followers what retweeting is and encourage them to retweet your links. Retweeting pushes your @username into foreign social graphs, resulting in clicks back to your profile. Track your retweets using retweetist.
3. The more active you are on Twitter the more likely you are to have someone find you from within Twitter and add you as someone that they are following. Every Tweet you do comes up on the Twitter Public Timeline – so upping your Tweet numbers can help have you appear more often there.
4. Put links to your Twitter profile everywhere. Link it on your LinkedIn, Digg, email signature, Facebook, blog and everywhere else you live online.
5. Bring your twitter account into the physical world. Speak on a panel, present slides, shoot a pod cast, or hand out business cards, I figure out a way to broadcast or display my twitter account.
6. Tweet about your passions in life and #hash tag them. Quality content coupled with an easy way to find it never fails. If others enjoy your content, they’ll add you
7. You can throw in personal tweets and have some fun with it – but if you’re interested in growing your Twitter influence you need to provide your followers (and potential followers) with value. It’s the same principle as growing a blog – if you help enhance people’s lives in some way they are more likely to want to track with you and read more of what you have to say. As a result your conversations should ‘matter’ on some level. Unless you’re providing something useful to people (entertainment information, education, news etc) they probably won’t follow you for long.
8. Track your results. TwitterCounter will show you how many new users you’re adding per day and Qwitter email you when someone unfollows you after a tweet.
9. Follow the top twitter users and watch what they tweet. Pay attention to the type of content they sent out and how they address their audiences.
10. Reply to/get involved in #hash tag memes. search.twitter.com lists the hot ‘trending topics. Look for the #hash topics and jump in on the conversation.