Getting Followers on Twitter (part 1)
Posted by Scott Hughes | Posted in Featured, Twitter Tips | Posted on 01-11-2009
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This is the first part of a three part series. There are three main ways to get followers on twitter. Depending on what you main purpose for using twitter and what level you twitter account is at will determine which one is best for you.The three methods are:
- The Guru Method
- FOF Method
- Prima Method
Today we will discuss the “Guru Method” of getting followers on twitter, I am sure if you have been reading or studying how to get followers then you have run across this method of getting followers.
The guru method is fairly simple, but there is a certain method to using it so that you stay in good standings with twitter and don’ t get your account suspended. I don’t know about you but I would be lost with out my twitter account lol.
So basiclly you want to execute the guru method of getting followers you simply follow the people that are following the “gugus” in whatever niche you may be in. So how do we find gurus? The first thing you can do it go to twitter and search using the “find people” search, which is found at the top of the twitter homepage once you log in
Then you can simply type a word into the search box and find people that have that keyword in their name. For example I did a search for “social media” and came up with a ton of people that have the words “social media” in their twitter username. Now some of these are not going to be your “gurus” but chances are there are some people following them that are definitely interested in social media.
Another site to use it twellow.com it allows you to use a search term, again like “social media” and find people that have used that term in their twitter profile, it will also give you the number of people following each person that shows up in the search results.
What I will normally do is find around 10 – 15 people I think will have followers that might be interested in me and what I have to offer and click the star that appears next to their latest tweets. This “saves” them into my favorites link on my twitter account. Once a day, usually in the morning, I will go and load all of them in separate tabs using Firefox. Once they are all loaded I go through and click “followers” on each of them, then I will simply follow everyone on their first page of followers. If you do this with 10 people every day, you will be following 200 more people every day. Chances are around 50% – 65% of all those people will follow you back. Giving you more than 100 new followers everyday.
Keep doing that everyday and you will have around 1500 – 2000 followers in less than a week. Once you are following 2000 people you will have hit the inevitable twitter wall. Twitter will only allow you to follow 2000 people until your followers are at 90% of the amount of people you are following. Meaning for you to follow more than 2000 people you need to have at least 1900 followers. Well the good news is there are several sites that allow you to unfollow people that are not following you back, my favorite is Huitter.com, go there and use their mutuality tool and unfollow anyone who is not following you back. You only need to do this once a week, or as needed to get your 1900 followers, do not follow and unfollow the same day, meaning if you followed people this morning, do not use Huitter and unfollow on the same day, doing that will get your account suspended by Twitter.
Ok well that is pretty much it for the “guru” method of getting twitter followers, stay tuned for part 2 where we talk about the FOF method. If you found this interesting or know someone who might, click the retweet button found either on the top or below this post, and thanks for reading.
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