10 Tips For Getting New Twitter Followers

On Monday, I gave you my opinion on why who you follow is more important than who follows you on Twitter. That said, we all want people to follow us on Twitter.

So, why is it that some people attract a lot of followers and others struggle? Below are 10 quick tips to get new followers on Twitter:

1. Leverage Your Network. If you already have a blog or a large network on a site like Facebook, leverage that resource to get your existing audience to follow you on Twitter.
2. Be Active. Nothing sucks worse than a dead Twitter profile. So, be consistent and try to tweet a few times per day.
3. Be a Person. It’s fine to use Twitterfeed to pipe your new blog posts into Twitter, but you need to be a regular person, too. A Twitter stream is supposed to be more than another RSS feed.
4. Tweet value. Put stuff out there that is actually worth reading. This doesn’t mean you can’t post random things you’re doing throughout the day (you want to be human), but people will value you more if what you say is actually interesting.
5. Follow others. If you follow other people, chances are they’ll follow you back. Don’t be random about. Find people who are actually worth following for your particular interests.
6. Strike a conversation. Just following a person and sitting back accomplishes little if your goal is for them to follow you back. Strike a conversation with them! Talk back! Send a reply. That’s a sure-fire way to stand out to people who follow a lot of people.
7. Retweet. If somebody you follow sends out a really useful or interesting tweet, retweet it to your own followers. Not only do you provide value to your own followers, but it shows up as a reply to the person who originally sent the message. Good on both fronts.
8. Be Interesting. It helps, not only to be a real person, but to actually be interesting. Funny tweets are one example. Careful, though, don’t be fake!
9. Be Interested. Take an interest in your followers. This goes hand-in-hand with several of the above tips, but at the end of the day, when you show interest in your network and the actual people who follow you, they’ll WANT to follow you. Acknowledge your followers publicly when they post something interesting, for example.
10. Don’t Forget Photos. People like photos, so if you use TwitPic sometimes to tweet photos, people will watch and take a gander.

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