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How to Use #Twitter for #Business and #Marketing

Kenny Fillinger

Is Twitter a part of your social media marketing?

Or have you let your Twitter marketing drop off lately?

In any case, with the latest Twitter updates, trends in multi-screen usage and real-time marketing, you’ll likely want to take a fresh look at what Twitter has to offer.

Here’s a checklist of everything your business needs to do to get on (or back on) Twitter and start seeing great results.

About Twitter

Twitter is a short message communication tool that allows you to send out messages (tweets) up to 140 characters long to people who subscribe to you (followers).

Your tweets can include a link to any web content (blog post, website page, PDF document, etc.) or a photograph or video. If a picture is worth a thousand words, adding an image to a tweet greatly expands what you can share to beyond the 140-character limit for tweets.

People follow (subscribe) to your Twitter account, and you follow other people. This allows you to read, reply to and easily share their tweets with your followers (retweet).

How Twitter Is Unique

In the social media world, Twitter falls into the category of microblogging tools because of the short, disconnected messages it distributes. Other microblogging tools include Tumblr, FriendFeedand Plurk.

Twitter shares some features with the most common social media tools (Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube). However, the differences really define Twitter.

Facebook: A tweet is like a short Facebook status update. However, with Twitter, every tweet arrives at every follower’s feed, unlike the filter of Facebook’s EdgeRank.

Pinterest: Twitter allows you to share photographs and provide commentary in your tweet. However, with Twitter, it’s much easier to have conversation around a shared image than with the comment feature on Pinterest.

LinkedIn: A tweet is like a short LinkedIn status update. While LinkedIn is based on trust relationships (and two-way agreements), Twitter allows you to follow anyone, including strangers. This is helpful when you target potential customers.

Google+: A tweet is like a short Google+ status update. Twitter also allows you to organize people into lists that organize conversations similar to Google+ groups.

YouTube: A tweet can contain a link to a video. However, Twitter doesn’t allow you to create a channel or organize your videos for easy location and commentary.

Now let’s dive into how you can use Twitter for your business.

Step #1: Present Your Brand

Your Twitter account and profile are the foundation of your Twitter experience. It’s your chance to tell your business story to the Twitter community.

It is important that your Twitter presence have the same look and feel as your other online tools. This helps people identify your business and builds trust. Choose an account name and images consistent with your other online presences and your brand.

Choose Your Twitter Username

Nothing expresses your brand on Twitter more than your account username. This name appears next to all of your tweets, and is how people identify you on Twitter.

An example of a small business with a Twitter username that matches their website domain.

Choose between your personal name (best for professional individuals) and your business name. Avoid using punctuation to keep your name easy to type on mobile devices.

If your exact business name is not available, choose a similar name for consistency.

Profile Images

Twitter uses two different images to represent your account. It’s important that you take advantage of both of these images to tell your business story. You upload these images under Profile in your account settings.

Your Twitter profile photo is a square photo that appears next to every tweet you send. You can use either your company logo or your headshot for your profile photo.

An example of a Twitter user with a headshot for his profile picture.

Note: Many small businesses use their business name for the account and a personal photo for the profile photo. This adds a personal touch to your Twitter account.

Your Twitter profile header is a large background photo where you can tell a story about your business. Similar to the Facebook cover photo, your header photo appears at the top of your profile page.

An example of a header photograph that tells the brand’s story.

You can also customize the background that people see when they visit your Twitter account. You can create a graphic file so it matches your business branding. You upload this image under Design in your profile settings.

Example of a small business user who has updated his Twitter background with his company branding.

Step #2: Build a Strong Foundation

It’s important that you complete your Twitter account profile completely. Each feature gives more details about your business that contribute to your business story.

Don’t miss these three important features under Profile in your account settings.

The location, website and bio portions of your profile provide important information about your business to other Twitter users.

Location. Tell people where they can find you. But remember, people may be visiting your profile from another city, state or country and won’t recognize your neighborhood or community name. Give them enough information so they can find you.

Website. You can share a web address with your community. You can give them your website or blog, but consider using a special Twitter landing page. This is a great way to provide additional information of interest to Twitter users looking into your business.

Bio. You only get 160 characters to tell people who you are and what you do. Skip the mission statement and talk about the benefits you deliver. And add in a little personality to bring your profile to life.

 Step #3: Start Following People

When you follow another Twitter user, you subscribe to read what they share. So be selective about whom you follow, especially at first.

To follow a user, you find their user profile and click on the Follow button.

One simple way to follow new people is to locate their profile and click the Follow button.

Twitter has strict rules about what they call aggressive following and aggressive following churn, so be careful and take it slow. You don’t want to get your account suspended in your first week because of suspicious activity.

Note: Your Twitter experience is defined by whom you follow, not by who follows you. Pay attention to your follow choices to give yourself a great Twitter experience.

In general, start following people in these categories:

Your customers

Your business partners, suppliers, contractors and vendors

Your competitors or peers

Trade organizations or professional organizations for your industry

Businesses in your neighborhood

Businesses run by people you know (your professional network)

Twitter can help you find people you know by scanning your email address book.

Use the Find Friends menu option on the Discover page to have Twitter scan your email address book for people you know on Twitter.

While you are out following people, you may notice that people are starting to follow you. Don’t worry if you don’t know these people. Stay focused on whom you follow for now.

Step #4: Start Talking

Talking on Twitter is different from every other social media site. It’s a fast-paced smorgasbord of ideas and sentence fragments. It’s hectic, but it’s also fun.

Give yourself a little time to get your feet wet. Listen to others. Jump in when you feel comfortable. Start talking as you get your bearings.

In general, there are five types of Twitter messages:

Tweet: a message you send out to everyone who follows you. This is the heart of Twitter communication. 

A tweet is a short message sent out to everyone who follows your Twitter account.

@Reply: a message you send out as a reply to a message you received. The @reply is a public message that mentions the Twitter username of the person. It shows up in the tweet stream of everyone who follows both of you, and on the @connect (mentions) page of the Twitter user. 

An @reply tweet is a message you send in response to a tweet from another person.

Mention: a message you send out that mentions another Twitter username. 

A mention tweet includes the name of a Twitter user but is not a reply to a previous tweet from that person.

Direct message (DM): a message you send privately to another Twitter user. You can only send a DM to someone who follows you. 

A DM is a private message sent to someone who follows you on Twitter.

Retweet (RT): a message created and sent by someone else that you share with the people who follow you. Twitter makes it easy to share tweets. 

A retweet is a message sent by another person that you share with your followers.

Step #5: Talk Smarter

After you master the five types of tweets, you are ready to attack the big question: What should I talk about on Twitter?

For every business, the answer is different. In general, you want to find the sweet spot between what your target audience wants to hear and things that promote your business. For many businesses, the answer is to focus on how your products and services benefit your customers.

Give people useful information and answer their questions, and they will consider you a valuable member of their community. That’s an important first step to winning a new customer.

There’s a real art to writing a headline-style message on Twitter. Experiment with different ways to say the same thing, and see what gets the most response. With only 140 characters, it’s important that every word pull its weight in your messages.

Over time, the quality of what you share will help you grow a strong Twitter following. Now, you are ready to take a step back and come up with a Twitter communication plan. Your plan focuses your Twitter conversation on topics designed to draw in potential customers and publish your tweets at the times you are most likely to engage people.

Step #6: Drive Traffic to Your Website and Blog

Twitter is a great tool for driving traffic to your website and blog. To do this, you create a tweet around a link, writing a message that compels people to click to learn more.

Write a compelling headline-style message to get people to click on the link in your tweet.

Because space is at a premium in a tweet, there isn’t room to post the entire web address. That’s why all of the Twitter tools allow you to shorten your web addresses using a URL shortener.

When you paste a web address into a tweet, Twitter automatically shortens it, giving you more space for your message.

When you use Twitter.com, the Twitter URL shortener uses just 20 characters for your web address, no matter how long the actual web address.

Step #7: Connect Your Online Presence

Now that you have Twitter rolling along, it’s time to integrate it into your overall online business presence.

There are three ways to do this:

Add your Twitter account information to the social media account information on your website and blog. Most of the social follow tools used on websites and blogs allow you to add your Twitter account easily and quickly to your list of social media accounts. Note: Twitter offers a Follow button you can add to your website or blog. 

Most social follow tools make it easy to add Twitter to your list of social media accounts.

Add a timeline of your Twitter messages to your website and blog. Twitter provides widgets that allow you to share a tweet timeline on your website and blog. This can be a great way to share your Twitter conversations with your website visitors, getting double exposure from the same effort.

An example of a Twitter widget using Twitter lists (explained in this article) added to a company website.

Note: You want to make sure that the tweets you share contribute to your business story, so be selective about which tweets you share on your website.

Make it easy for people to share your website and blog content on Twitter. There are several ways you can add a Tweet This button to your blog posts and website pages, including a tweet button from Twitter. This allows your visitors to easily write a tweet about your content and share it with their followers. 

The Tweet button at the top of every Social Media Examiner post makes it easy for you to share our articles with your Twitter followers.

Another way you can move the Twitter conversation to your blog or website is by embedding a tweet. This allows you to select any tweet and insert it into a blog post, for example. By embedding the tweet, you allow people who visit your blog post to jump into the Twitter conversation.

Hover over any tweet you want to embed, click on the More link that becomes visible and choose Embed Tweet.

Here’s how an embedded tweet looks:

Step #8: Get Mobile With Twitter

Nearly every cell phone can connect you with your Twitter audience.

Smartphones (iOS, Android, Windows and Blackberry) allow you to use the Twitter app and Twitter mobile website to easily send and receive tweets.

Non-smartphones with texting service (SMS) allow you to use Twitter using text messages.

The Twitter app on the iPhone allows you to perform nearly every Twitter activity from your phone that you can do on Twitter.com.

Twitter allows you to set up push notifications to your smartphone so you know when selected activities happen on Twitter:

People mention you

Someone retweets or favorites a tweet you sent

You get a new follower

Someone sends you a direct message

With Twitter, a speedy response is best, and push notifications make it easy for you to know when things are happening for you on Twitter.

Step #9: Share Photographs in Your Tweets

People love to look at pictures, so include photographs in your tweets whenever possible. You don’t have to be a professional photographer or have a fancy camera. All you need is a smartphone.

You can share your photograph from your desktop on Twitter.com or from the Twitter app on your mobile phone. Get into the habit of taking photos of your business activities that you canshare with your Twitter community.

Twitter integrates into your smartphone’s camera roll. This allows you to easily share photos you have taken with your Twitter followers.

You can tweet directly from the photos stored on your smartphone, as shown here on an iPhone.

Twitter adds the photo to your tweet and makes it available for everyone to see.

Click on View photo to see the attached photo with any tweet.

A tweet with a photo allows your followers to view the photo within their tweet timeline.

Twitter adds every photo you share to a photo (and video) gallery. The first six appear on your profile page. Take advantage of this feature to share pictures that tell your business story.

Twitter shares the six most recent photos or videos you share in the gallery on your profile page.

Step #10: Add Video to Your Twitter Timeline

Video is another powerful way to tell people about your business.

You can add videos to your Twitter timeline, but you cannot add them directly from Twitter. You must first upload them to another service like YouTube, and then link to them in your tweet.

Here’s a tweet with a video inserted by linking to YouTube. Click View media to open the video inside Twitter.

When a tweet contains a link to a video, Twitter allows you to play the video within the tweet. Click on View media to open the video player.

Twitter allows you to play videos without leaving the platform.

Recently, Twitter launched a new video service called Vine that allows you to take short, 6-second videos from the Vine app and play them on an endless loop inside Twitter.

Click View media to view an attached Vine video.

Like other videos, simply click View media to start playing the Vine video attached to a tweet.

A tweet with a Vine video. Twitter plays the video on an endless loop.

Twitter also adds your Vine videos to your profile gallery.

If you are not sure how your business can take advantage of this exciting new information-sharing tool, check out these examples of how businesses are using Vine to tell their story.

Step #11: Organize Your Followers Into Conversation Lists

As you follow more people, it can be challenging to focus on the information coming from specific people and groups. That’s where Twitter lists come in.

A Twitter list allows you to separate the Twitter accounts you follow into groups. You might create separate lists for:

Customers

Potential customers

Neighborhood or community businesses

Trade or professional organizations

People who inspire you

People you talk with the most

A list allows you to see the tweets from the list members as a separate Twitter timeline. This distinguishes them from the crowd so you can pay attention to what these people say. You can also share tweets from a list on your website using a widget (explained in this article).

You can organize your lists in any way that helps you. You can create one or many lists. You can also make your lists public or private.

When you create a public list, list members see when you add or delete them from the list, and anyone can choose to follow your list.

When you create a private list, people don’t know they appear on it and only you can see the list’s tweet timeline.

To review the public lists created by any Twitter user, display their profile page. Then click Lists in the left menu. Their public lists appear in the right column.

Here’s a Twitter account with many public lists. Click on Lists on the left to see their public lists in the main column.

To view the tweet timeline for the members of a list, click on the list name.

Here’s an example of a Twitter timeline for people contained in a public list called SmallBiz Most Influential created by Twitter user D&B Credibility.

To add someone to a list, display his or her profile. Click the gear icon and choose add or remove from lists. Then check or uncheck them from your list of Twitter lists.

You can add any person to your lists, even if you don’t follow him or her.

Step #12: Expand Your Audience With Hashtags

Most people’s Twitter experience is limited to the people they follow. It’s always a good idea to keep looking for new, fresh voices to follow to keep expanding your online conversations.

There are two great ways to expand your Twitter audience beyond your circle.

Hashtags appear in tweets to identify a common topic or theme. They use the pound (or hash) sign followed by a unique identifier. For example:

#sxswi is the hashtag for the conference, South by Southwest Interactive

#NCAA is the hashtag for the US college sports association

#VZW is the hashtag for Verizon Wireless

#FF is the hashtag for Follow Friday, a way to promote people on Twitter

Scroll through your timeline to spot tweets with a hashtag.

An example of a tweet with a #GetGlue hashtag.

When you see a tweet with a hashtag, click on the hashtag to see a list of all tweets that include the same hashtag. You will see tweets from people you do not follow.

When you click on a hashtag or do a search on it, you get a list of tweets from all Twitter accounts that use the hashtag.

If you attend a conference, the conference may ask all of the attendees to include the conference hashtag in their tweets. This way, hashtags pull together the conference tweets into one huge conversation, even though you may not be following all of those people.

You can create a hashtag unique for your business and use it in your marketing to help people find your company and the conversations around it. In fact, hashtags are a great way to use Twitter for customer service and support.

Step #13: Pinpoint Potential Local Customers

People often think that social media allows you to connect with people outside of your local geography. And while that is true, one of the great strengths of Twitter is the ability to focus on people in your own backyard.

Most businesses need local customers. You can use Twitter to help you find potential customers who live and work near your business. Use Twitter Advanced Search to find people near your location.

Use the Advanced Search feature to find people by city and zip code.

Use the Places feature to identify your location by city or zip code. Twitter displays a list of people who are tweeting near that location.

An example of a local search for “Tempe, Arizona” and the list of tweets in that area.

Use this tweet timeline to find people who may be potential customers. You can follow them or add them to a potential local customer list. It’s the first step to engaging them in conversation.

Take Your Twitter Use for Business to the Next Level

After you master these Twitter skills, there are still more ways you can use Twitter to meet your business goals. Here are a few of them to inspire you.

Start measuring your Twitter performance. It’s much easier to get better results when you have solid data about how your Twitter strategies are working.

Focus on building your Twitter community. There are tools that allow you to analyze who is following you and reach out to your target audience. Together, these can make your Twitter marketing far more effective.

Learn which tweets are most effective with your audience. Use Twitter tools to test alternative tweets to see which one really gets a better response.

Expand your Twitter conversation topics. Add more variety to your conversations and pull in more audience engagement.

Fine-tune your Twitter presence to get better results. When you hit a slump, it’s time to make small adjustments that add up to a stronger Twitter presence.

Your Turn

Use these suggestions to launch (or relaunch) your business’s Twitter presence.

What do you think? Are you ready to reboot your Twitter experience? Are you ready to jump into the Twitter pool? Share your experience and “ah-ha!” moments here with us.

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10 #Awesome #Twitter #Analytics and Visualization #Tools

Kenny Fillinger

After researching over a thousand Twitter Tools for the Twitter Tools Book I came across many Twitter analytics and visualization tools.  These Twitter tools were designed to add value by presenting a different way to visualize or analyze your tweets, the people in your network, and the tweets from the people in your network.

Many tools tried to add value and failed.  At least they tried.

The following tools, however, stand out in my mind as exceptional or entertaining and I recommend you check them out if you want to analyze and visualize your activity on Twitter.

1. The Archivist

The Archivist was built by Mix Online, an opinionated group of designers and developers at Microsoft.

Some of the cool features of this tool include:

Top Users

Top Words

Top URLs

Tweet vs. Retweet Ratio

Sources (Tools) Tweets are sent with

2. SocialBro

SocialBro is a powerful platform that enables you to analyze and visualize your network in a variety of ways.

In addition to analysis SocialBro also enables you to grow your network and schedule tweets for Hootsuite or Buffer directly within their platform.

Here is a snapshot of their homepage:

Some of their other features include:

Explore Your Twitter Community

Determine the Best Time to Tweet

Identify Influencers

Target Your Audience with Precision

Discover and Easily Follow Targeted Twitter Users

…and more!

3. MentionMap

MentionMap is a cool network exploring tool.  The interactive nature of this tool is very neat, although sometimes awkward to navigate.  Test it out for yourself with the embed below.

4. Twitonomy

Twitonomy is a powerful Twitter anayltics platform that I discovered after it’s founder @MattFyot reached out to me on Twitter.

This free service is actually very robust, and I am impressed with all of the different methods of analysis it offers.

To give you a better idea here is a screen capture of my Twitonomy profile:

5. 5K Twitter Browser

5K Twitter Browser is a very cool way to explore the followers of your followers.  The only downside to this app is that there are no links to the profiles, you need to enter the usernames into Twitter directly to check people out, and longer usernames cannot be entirely seen.

6. Twitter Counter

Twitter Counter is  a way to visualize and track the growth of your own followers, and even compare your growth to the growth of other users.

Below is a graph they generated showing my follower growth during the last month.

7. Visible Tweets

Visible Tweets is a way to view tweets based on keyword or username.

This Twitter visualization Tool is basically a screen saver featuring your tweets.

Here is a video I recorded with a quick demo of this tool.

8. Tweetstats

Tweetstats is, you guessed it, statistics for Twitter. And robust statistics at that. Check this tool out for a glimpse into your tweeting style and tendancies.

9. Twistori

Twistori is an elegant way to view a scrolling stream of tweet containing the emotive words: I love, I hate, I think, I believe, I feel, and I wish.

This is a pretty interesting way to get a feel for the pulse of Twitter.

10. Tweepsmap

TweepsMap is a cool tool that shows you where your followers are in the world.

With this tool you can map the effectiveness and distribution of your following.

Below you can see a screen capture of the map TweepsMap generated of my following, which has the greatest concentration in the US and Canada, but is also widely distributed throughout the world.

Bonus Analysis Tools

Twenty Feet

Twenty Feet is a powerful analytics platform that tracks and graphs stats like Twitter mentions, followers, retweets, and more.

Twenty feet also integrates with other services like Facebook, bitly, Google Analytics, YouTube, and more.

You can track your Twitter and Facebook with Twenty Feet for free, and if you want to track other services beyond these they have paid packages as well and offer a free 30 day trial.

Portwiture

Portwiture is definitely one of the more unique visual Twitter apps that you’ll find. Rather than tag clouds or graphs, Portwiture allows you to visualize your tweets in photographs.

Foller.me

Foller.me is a cool free Twitter analytics tool that enables you to quickly analyze important stats about any Twitter user.

My favorite features of this tool are the topics, hashtags, and mentions analysis.

Other cool features of foller.me include the times of day you usually tweet, the breakdown of your last 100 tweets and more!

How To: Rapidly Build Your Twitter Network

The Twitter Marketing Software Tweetadder is a major reason why I now have over 406,000 followers on Twitter.

Check out a video demo of this powerful Twitter Marketing Software to see how it works.

Feedback

How do you analyze and visualize your tweets and Twitter presence?  Let us know in the comments below!

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10 #Awesome #Twitter #Analytics and Visualization #Tools

Kenny Fillinger

After researching over a thousand Twitter Tools for the Twitter Tools Book I came across many Twitter analytics and visualization tools.  These Twitter tools were designed to add value by presenting a different way to visualize or analyze your tweets, the people in your network, and the tweets from the people in your network.

Many tools tried to add value and failed.  At least they tried.

The following tools, however, stand out in my mind as exceptional or entertaining and I recommend you check them out if you want to analyze and visualize your activity on Twitter.

1. The Archivist

The Archivist was built by Mix Online, an opinionated group of designers and developers at Microsoft.

Some of the cool features of this tool include:

Top Users

Top Words

Top URLs

Tweet vs. Retweet Ratio

Sources (Tools) Tweets are sent with

2. SocialBro

SocialBro is a powerful platform that enables you to analyze and visualize your network in a variety of ways.

In addition to analysis SocialBro also enables you to grow your network and schedule tweets for Hootsuite or Buffer directly within their platform.

Here is a snapshot of their homepage:

Some of their other features include:

Explore Your Twitter Community

Determine the Best Time to Tweet

Identify Influencers

Target Your Audience with Precision

Discover and Easily Follow Targeted Twitter Users

…and more!

3. MentionMap

MentionMap is a cool network exploring tool.  The interactive nature of this tool is very neat, although sometimes awkward to navigate.  Test it out for yourself with the embed below.

4. Twitonomy

Twitonomy is a powerful Twitter anayltics platform that I discovered after it’s founder @MattFyot reached out to me on Twitter.

This free service is actually very robust, and I am impressed with all of the different methods of analysis it offers.

To give you a better idea here is a screen capture of my Twitonomy profile:

5. 5K Twitter Browser

5K Twitter Browser is a very cool way to explore the followers of your followers.  The only downside to this app is that there are no links to the profiles, you need to enter the usernames into Twitter directly to check people out, and longer usernames cannot be entirely seen.

6. Twitter Counter

Twitter Counter is  a way to visualize and track the growth of your own followers, and even compare your growth to the growth of other users.

Below is a graph they generated showing my follower growth during the last month.

7. Visible Tweets

Visible Tweets is a way to view tweets based on keyword or username.

This Twitter visualization Tool is basically a screen saver featuring your tweets.

Here is a video I recorded with a quick demo of this tool.

8. Tweetstats

Tweetstats is, you guessed it, statistics for Twitter. And robust statistics at that. Check this tool out for a glimpse into your tweeting style and tendancies.

9. Twistori

Twistori is an elegant way to view a scrolling stream of tweet containing the emotive words: I love, I hate, I think, I believe, I feel, and I wish.

This is a pretty interesting way to get a feel for the pulse of Twitter.

10. Tweepsmap

TweepsMap is a cool tool that shows you where your followers are in the world.

With this tool you can map the effectiveness and distribution of your following.

Below you can see a screen capture of the map TweepsMap generated of my following, which has the greatest concentration in the US and Canada, but is also widely distributed throughout the world.

Bonus Analysis Tools

Twenty Feet

Twenty Feet is a powerful analytics platform that tracks and graphs stats like Twitter mentions, followers, retweets, and more.

Twenty feet also integrates with other services like Facebook, bitly, Google Analytics, YouTube, and more.

You can track your Twitter and Facebook with Twenty Feet for free, and if you want to track other services beyond these they have paid packages as well and offer a free 30 day trial.

Portwiture

Portwiture is definitely one of the more unique visual Twitter apps that you’ll find. Rather than tag clouds or graphs, Portwiture allows you to visualize your tweets in photographs.

Foller.me

Foller.me is a cool free Twitter analytics tool that enables you to quickly analyze important stats about any Twitter user.

My favorite features of this tool are the topics, hashtags, and mentions analysis.

Other cool features of foller.me include the times of day you usually tweet, the breakdown of your last 100 tweets and more!

How To: Rapidly Build Your Twitter Network

The Twitter Marketing Software Tweetadder is a major reason why I now have over 406,000 followers on Twitter.

Check out a video demo of this powerful Twitter Marketing Software to see how it works.

Feedback

How do you analyze and visualize your tweets and Twitter presence?  Let us know in the comments below!

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35 ways to get more #Retweet

Kenny Fillinger

Getting retweeted is a great way to extend your influence online.

Retweets lead to more traffic, more followers, and more clout.

As Tim Ferriss explains, getting retweeted is part art, part science.

To maximize your retweet potential your best bet is to have a catchy headline, clean grammar, and some cool content to drive your tweet home.

Write a bold tweet and there is a good chance that someone will retweet it.

Write a tactical tweet, and even if it lacks monumental importance, the science of retweeting will help it spread.

The tips below are a collection of my experience and research.  Try them out for yourself and watch as your tweets are retweeted far and wide.

1. Install a Twitter button into your website/blog

Twitter recently launched the official Twitter tweet button, which I really like (you’ll notice it at the bottom of this post).  Installing this button into your website makes it easy for people to retweet content on your page.

I like the official tweet button because it uses the custom url shortener t.co and because it gives you the option to suggest users for the person using it to follow after they tweet.  You can grab one at: http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton

2. Ask your friends to retweet you

If you have a tweet you want retweeted simply send a message to your friends asking them to retweet it for you.

“Hey there, Garin here, I just finished working on a comprehensive post about 35 ways to get more retweets and if you could share it for me I’d really appreciate it. Here is the link: http://t.co/cE9D6YE Cheers!”

You can message your friends with DM’s via twitter, with facebook, or even with good old email when asking for a retweet.

3. Repeat your best Tweets

If you worked hard on a blog post that you know deserves some attention don’t be afraid to tweet it out a few times.

When you repeat your tweet, mix it up.  Don’t tweet the exact same tweet every time.  Re-word your tweet and you will appeal to different people each time you tweet it.

There are now in excess of 100,000,000 tweets a day.  It is harder than ever to get your tweets noticed these days, due to the sheer volume of tweets.

As long as you don’t spam, and add value, it’s fair game.

4. Tweet breaking news

If you tweet breaking news there is a good chance others will share this news as well, and your tweet might just spread like wildfire.

5. Say thanks!

When you start getting a ton of retweets it is difficult to thank everyone who retweets you, but if you notice that someone has retweeted you several times then take the time to say “thanks” and they will be more likely to retweet you again.

Thank these people for retweeting you and you will gain a new follower and friend that will probably retweet you again.

6. Get as many highly relevant followers as possible

The more followers you have, the more likely you are to get retweets.

To get more followers check out my TweetAdder review and my post on how to get more Twitter followers.

7. Build Retweeting Relationships

Wear this shirt for more retweets

Promote the content of others more than you promote your own content.  The ratio that Chris Brogan uses is 15 x 1, and it seems to work well for him.  Help others get their message out and they will be much more likely to do the same for you.

8. Include @mentions to those referenced in the post

Include the twitter user name of others in your blog post, and then send a shout out to them on twitter letting them know.

There is a good chance other people will retweet your post when they find out they are in the post you are sharing!

9. Use Tweriod for a Free Analysis of the Best Times to Tweet

Tweriod is a free Twitter analysis tool that analyses where the last 1,000 people who followed you are from and makes a custom recommendation about when you should tweet based on that.

The only problem with Tweriod is the more followers you get beyond 1,000 the less accurate it becomes at telling you the best time to send your tweets.

10. Time your Tweets During Peak Hours

Have too many followers for Tweriod to be effective for you?

Tweet between 2pm and 6pm EST for maximum effectiveness.

11. Schedule your tweets for maximum effectiveness

I use Hootsuite to schedule my tweets, but tweet scheduling is built into several twitter apps, such as TweetDeck and TweetAdder.

By scheduling tweets you can ensure that your content will be sent out during peak times for maximum exposure, even if you are not there to manually tweet it.

A tool called buffer enables you to schedule tweets at the best time automatically, without having to manually input the time you want to tweet.

12. Leave room in your tweet for RT and your user name

Many people (such as myself) still prefer to retweet using the classic style.

Make sure you leave enough room in your tweet for RT and your user name whenever possible, so as many people as possible retweet you.

13. Trending Topics

Trending topics are a powerful way to get into a stream of tweets that as many as thousands of people are tweeting about at once, and this can help a clever tweet go viral fast.

By tweeting about a trending topic you give your tweet greater exposure than it typically will receive.  Some people use this tactic on a regular basis and those who do so with success are often retweeted hundreds or thousands of times and can pick up several thousands of followers in the process.

14. Use a Twitpic

Twitpic is the fifth most popular twitter application, and the reason is simple: it gets a lot of attention.

Tweet a cool picture and the odds are quite good that it will be retweeted.

15. Check out tweetmeme

The stories that are on tweetmeme are there because they have already proven themselves to retweet well.

Retweeting the hottest links on tweetmeme is a sure fire way to get your tweets noticed.

16. Tweet Great Quotes

Take a minute and dig up some great quotes.

Great quotes seem to always retweet very well for me, and I’m sure they will do the same for you.

There are plenty of quotes websites online, just Google “Best [Topic] Quotes” and you’ll certainly find some good ones.

17. Download Dan Zarrella’s free “The Science of Retweets” Report

The Science of Retweets is a free 22 page eBook by Dan Zarrella.This book contains all of the graphs in this post about retweets, and more.

18. Tweet Links

Based on data tweets with links tweet better than tweets without links.  The reason for this may be largely due to the fact that tweets without links are often simple daily updates, which make no sense to retweet.

Do not misinterpret this data and think that tweets without links cannot retweet well.  Some of my bolder tweets are on par, in terms of retweets, with tweets containing links to my most valuable content.

19. Build friendships with social media giants

If you can manage to build friendships with twitter giants you will benefit from their exposure when they talk to you, and if they retweet your tweets.

Some people with considerably fewer followers than me retweet my content all the time and when I notice this I often return the favour.  Even though someone might have many fewer followers I still appreciate the help.

20. Use the most ReTweetable Words in your Tweets

21. Don’t use the least ReTweetable words in your Tweets

22. Use the ReTweetable words finder tool

The Most ReTweetable Words Finder Tool will allow you to find the most ReTweetable words about your specific topic.

This tool will show you the 20 most ReTweetable words about any given topic. Simply enter a keyword (like “marketing”) and click analyze.

This tool only analyzes about 1500 tweets at a time, which may or may not return relevant results for you.  I hope Dan builds out a more robust version of this tool in the future.

23. Include “Please RT” in your tweet

Some people are simply programmed to respond favorably to “please.”

Ask people nicely to help you and you may be surprised by the ground you are able to gain.  Dan Zazarella has proven that there is data behind the effectiveness of this strategy.

24. Target your tweets to your audience

If you use a tool like TweetAdder to really focus in on a highly relevant niche and connect with people who are the most likely to relate to your content.

TweetAdder enables you to build connections with people based on keywords they have in their bio.

By following people who are interested in topics similar to the content you post there is a very good chance they will follow you back, and this is an effective strategy for building your network fast.

25. If you have WordPress install social sharing plugin

This plugin digg digg will allow you to easily install a tweet button or a tweetmeme button into every post and page.  You can even select the “Ajax floating” option so that the buttons follow users down the page as they scroll.  Digg digg is currently installed in this blog.

Another social plugin I use on this blog at the bottom of every post is called Sexy Bookmarks.

26. Run a twitter contest where contestants enter by retweeting

Twitter contests often go viral.  Certain tweeters eat them up.  The cooler the prize you are willing to give away the more likely people are to retweet your link.

You can use the twitter tool backtweets to keep track of everyone who has retweeted the entry link.

27. Get people to pay you with a retweet

If you have a digital product, such as an ebook or an Mp.3 you can use the service paywithatweet.com to offer it to free for any twitter user who sends out a retweet for you.

If you have great content to share this is a very cool way to get some viral exposure as you distribute it.

28. Give away something free

I have gotten tons of retweets on my free 7 day twitter eCourse.  One of the seven days contains a module on “How to get more retweets.”

You can also give away a video course, an eBook, or any digital content.  The higher the value of the gift you give, the greater your chances are of getting retweets.

29. Use bit.ly or su.pr for links

Bit.ly is the standard url shortener for twitter, and due to that fact it is highly familiar with twitter users, and it will get you the best click through rate.

Su.pr can get you more traffic by syndicating your content to StumbleUpon, which is a community of over nine million users.  I know from experience that StumbleUpon can lead to large windfalls of traffic (to the tune of tens of thousands of visitors) so I do believe in StumbleUpon as a very viable source of traffic.

30. Use #Hashtags

Try using #Hashtags.  Just don’t use #ReallyAnnoyingLongHashTags.

The most effective way I ever saw hash tags leveraged to promote retweets was when a company offered to donate $.01 to Livestrong everytime the hashtag #beatcancer was used.  The hashtag  went viral, was used thousands of times.  For a few hundred dollars the became a twitter marketing success.

31. Use Backtweets

UPDATE: Backtweets was acquired by Twitter and is currently not available.

If you have a popular post that has gotten some retweets, there is a good chance that it will get retweeted by some people who will not mention your username.

Use backtweets to find everyone who has retweeted your link.

32. Check out this presentation by Dan Zarella

33. Give if you want to get

Promote others like crazy.  Then when you throw your own content into the fray there will be many others ready to return the favor.  Reciprocity is a powerful force.

34. Tweet more often later in the week

A good strategy to for attaining retweets is to Tweet your best stuff out during peak times.

The peak time for Twitter is after lunch. Between noon and 5 p.m. EST is when you will probably find that you get the most retweets.

The best days of the week for retweets are Thursday and Friday.

35. Tweet awesome content

Content is king, and awesome content naturally leads to a large number of retweets.  Check out the twitter run @toptweets for an idea of the most successful tweets.  Top Tweets algorithmically selects and retweets some of the most interesting tweets spreading across Twitter.

I have also curated a list called awesome content that contains the people who I have noticed share the most awesome content on a regular basis.

Cool content like this blog post is also great for retweeting .

Bonus Infographic

Feedback

Now that you know 35 ways to get more retweets go out and put them into action!

How do you get more RT’s? Let us know in the comments.

Oh,  and one more thing: Please RT this post

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Getting retweeted is a great way to extend your influence online.

Retweets lead to more traffic, more followers, and more clout.

As Tim Ferriss explains, getting retweeted is part art, part science.

To maximize your retweet potential your best bet is to have a catchy headline, clean grammar, and some cool content to drive your tweet home.

Write a bold tweet and there is a good chance that someone will retweet it.

Write a tactical tweet, and even if it lacks monumental importance, the science of retweeting will help it spread.

The tips below are a collection of my experience and research.  Try them out for yourself and watch as your tweets are retweeted far and wide.

1. Install a Twitter button into your website/blog

Twitter recently launched the official Twitter tweet button, which I really like (you’ll notice it at the bottom of this post).  Installing this button into your website makes it easy for people to retweet content on your page.

I like the official tweet button because it uses the custom url shortener t.co and because it gives you the option to suggest users for the person using it to follow after they tweet.  You can grab one at: http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton

2. Ask your friends to retweet you

If you have a tweet you want retweeted simply send a message to your friends asking them to retweet it for you.

“Hey there, Garin here, I just finished working on a comprehensive post about 35 ways to get more retweets and if you could share it for me I’d really appreciate it. Here is the link: http://t.co/cE9D6YE Cheers!”

You can message your friends with DM’s via twitter, with facebook, or even with good old email when asking for a retweet.

3. Repeat your best Tweets

If you worked hard on a blog post that you know deserves some attention don’t be afraid to tweet it out a few times.

When you repeat your tweet, mix it up.  Don’t tweet the exact same tweet every time.  Re-word your tweet and you will appeal to different people each time you tweet it.

There are now in excess of 100,000,000 tweets a day.  It is harder than ever to get your tweets noticed these days, due to the sheer volume of tweets.

As long as you don’t spam, and add value, it’s fair game.

4. Tweet breaking news

If you tweet breaking news there is a good chance others will share this news as well, and your tweet might just spread like wildfire.

5. Say thanks!

When you start getting a ton of retweets it is difficult to thank everyone who retweets you, but if you notice that someone has retweeted you several times then take the time to say “thanks” and they will be more likely to retweet you again.

Thank these people for retweeting you and you will gain a new follower and friend that will probably retweet you again.

6. Get as many highly relevant followers as possible

The more followers you have, the more likely you are to get retweets.

To get more followers check out my TweetAdder review and my post on how to get more Twitter followers.

7. Build Retweeting Relationships

Wear this shirt for more retweets

Promote the content of others more than you promote your own content.  The ratio that Chris Brogan uses is 15 x 1, and it seems to work well for him.  Help others get their message out and they will be much more likely to do the same for you.

8. Include @mentions to those referenced in the post

Include the twitter user name of others in your blog post, and then send a shout out to them on twitter letting them know.

There is a good chance other people will retweet your post when they find out they are in the post you are sharing!

9. Use Tweriod for a Free Analysis of the Best Times to Tweet

Tweriod is a free Twitter analysis tool that analyses where the last 1,000 people who followed you are from and makes a custom recommendation about when you should tweet based on that.

The only problem with Tweriod is the more followers you get beyond 1,000 the less accurate it becomes at telling you the best time to send your tweets.

10. Time your Tweets During Peak Hours

Have too many followers for Tweriod to be effective for you?

Tweet between 2pm and 6pm EST for maximum effectiveness.

11. Schedule your tweets for maximum effectiveness

I use Hootsuite to schedule my tweets, but tweet scheduling is built into several twitter apps, such as TweetDeck and TweetAdder.

By scheduling tweets you can ensure that your content will be sent out during peak times for maximum exposure, even if you are not there to manually tweet it.

A tool called buffer enables you to schedule tweets at the best time automatically, without having to manually input the time you want to tweet.

12. Leave room in your tweet for RT and your user name

Many people (such as myself) still prefer to retweet using the classic style.

Make sure you leave enough room in your tweet for RT and your user name whenever possible, so as many people as possible retweet you.

13. Trending Topics

Trending topics are a powerful way to get into a stream of tweets that as many as thousands of people are tweeting about at once, and this can help a clever tweet go viral fast.

By tweeting about a trending topic you give your tweet greater exposure than it typically will receive.  Some people use this tactic on a regular basis and those who do so with success are often retweeted hundreds or thousands of times and can pick up several thousands of followers in the process.

14. Use a Twitpic

Twitpic is the fifth most popular twitter application, and the reason is simple: it gets a lot of attention.

Tweet a cool picture and the odds are quite good that it will be retweeted.

15. Check out tweetmeme

The stories that are on tweetmeme are there because they have already proven themselves to retweet well.

Retweeting the hottest links on tweetmeme is a sure fire way to get your tweets noticed.

16. Tweet Great Quotes

Take a minute and dig up some great quotes.

Great quotes seem to always retweet very well for me, and I’m sure they will do the same for you.

There are plenty of quotes websites online, just Google “Best [Topic] Quotes” and you’ll certainly find some good ones.

17. Download Dan Zarrella’s free “The Science of Retweets” Report

The Science of Retweets is a free 22 page eBook by Dan Zarrella.This book contains all of the graphs in this post about retweets, and more.

18. Tweet Links

Based on data tweets with links tweet better than tweets without links.  The reason for this may be largely due to the fact that tweets without links are often simple daily updates, which make no sense to retweet.

Do not misinterpret this data and think that tweets without links cannot retweet well.  Some of my bolder tweets are on par, in terms of retweets, with tweets containing links to my most valuable content.

19. Build friendships with social media giants

If you can manage to build friendships with twitter giants you will benefit from their exposure when they talk to you, and if they retweet your tweets.

Some people with considerably fewer followers than me retweet my content all the time and when I notice this I often return the favour.  Even though someone might have many fewer followers I still appreciate the help.

20. Use the most ReTweetable Words in your Tweets

21. Don’t use the least ReTweetable words in your Tweets

22. Use the ReTweetable words finder tool

The Most ReTweetable Words Finder Tool will allow you to find the most ReTweetable words about your specific topic.

This tool will show you the 20 most ReTweetable words about any given topic. Simply enter a keyword (like “marketing”) and click analyze.

This tool only analyzes about 1500 tweets at a time, which may or may not return relevant results for you.  I hope Dan builds out a more robust version of this tool in the future.

23. Include “Please RT” in your tweet

Some people are simply programmed to respond favorably to “please.”

Ask people nicely to help you and you may be surprised by the ground you are able to gain.  Dan Zazarella has proven that there is data behind the effectiveness of this strategy.

24. Target your tweets to your audience

If you use a tool like TweetAdder to really focus in on a highly relevant niche and connect with people who are the most likely to relate to your content.

TweetAdder enables you to build connections with people based on keywords they have in their bio.

By following people who are interested in topics similar to the content you post there is a very good chance they will follow you back, and this is an effective strategy for building your network fast.

25. If you have WordPress install social sharing plugin

This plugin digg digg will allow you to easily install a tweet button or a tweetmeme button into every post and page.  You can even select the “Ajax floating” option so that the buttons follow users down the page as they scroll.  Digg digg is currently installed in this blog.

Another social plugin I use on this blog at the bottom of every post is called Sexy Bookmarks.

26. Run a twitter contest where contestants enter by retweeting

Twitter contests often go viral.  Certain tweeters eat them up.  The cooler the prize you are willing to give away the more likely people are to retweet your link.

You can use the twitter tool backtweets to keep track of everyone who has retweeted the entry link.

27. Get people to pay you with a retweet

If you have a digital product, such as an ebook or an Mp.3 you can use the service paywithatweet.com to offer it to free for any twitter user who sends out a retweet for you.

If you have great content to share this is a very cool way to get some viral exposure as you distribute it.

28. Give away something free

I have gotten tons of retweets on my free 7 day twitter eCourse.  One of the seven days contains a module on “How to get more retweets.”

You can also give away a video course, an eBook, or any digital content.  The higher the value of the gift you give, the greater your chances are of getting retweets.

29. Use bit.ly or su.pr for links

Bit.ly is the standard url shortener for twitter, and due to that fact it is highly familiar with twitter users, and it will get you the best click through rate.

Su.pr can get you more traffic by syndicating your content to StumbleUpon, which is a community of over nine million users.  I know from experience that StumbleUpon can lead to large windfalls of traffic (to the tune of tens of thousands of visitors) so I do believe in StumbleUpon as a very viable source of traffic.

30. Use #Hashtags

Try using #Hashtags.  Just don’t use #ReallyAnnoyingLongHashTags.

The most effective way I ever saw hash tags leveraged to promote retweets was when a company offered to donate $.01 to Livestrong everytime the hashtag #beatcancer was used.  The hashtag  went viral, was used thousands of times.  For a few hundred dollars the became a twitter marketing success.

31. Use Backtweets

UPDATE: Backtweets was acquired by Twitter and is currently not available.

If you have a popular post that has gotten some retweets, there is a good chance that it will get retweeted by some people who will not mention your username.

Use backtweets to find everyone who has retweeted your link.

32. Check out this presentation by Dan Zarella

33. Give if you want to get

Promote others like crazy.  Then when you throw your own content into the fray there will be many others ready to return the favor.  Reciprocity is a powerful force.

34. Tweet more often later in the week

A good strategy to for attaining retweets is to Tweet your best stuff out during peak times.

The peak time for Twitter is after lunch. Between noon and 5 p.m. EST is when you will probably find that you get the most retweets.

The best days of the week for retweets are Thursday and Friday.

35. Tweet awesome content

Content is king, and awesome content naturally leads to a large number of retweets.  Check out the twitter run @toptweets for an idea of the most successful tweets.  Top Tweets algorithmically selects and retweets some of the most interesting tweets spreading across Twitter.

I have also curated a list called awesome content that contains the people who I have noticed share the most awesome content on a regular basis.

Cool content like this blog post is also great for retweeting .

Bonus Infographic

Feedback

Now that you know 35 ways to get more retweets go out and put them into action!

How do you get more RT’s? Let us know in the comments.

Oh,  and one more thing: Please RT this post

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Kenny Fillinger

Getting retweeted is a great way to extend your influence online.

Retweets lead to more traffic, more followers, and more clout.

As Tim Ferriss explains, getting retweeted is part art, part science.

To maximize your retweet potential your best bet is to have a catchy headline, clean grammar, and some cool content to drive your tweet home.

Write a bold tweet and there is a good chance that someone will retweet it.

Write a tactical tweet, and even if it lacks monumental importance, the science of retweeting will help it spread.

The tips below are a collection of my experience and research.  Try them out for yourself and watch as your tweets are retweeted far and wide.

1. Install a Twitter button into your website/blog

Twitter recently launched the official Twitter tweet button, which I really like (you’ll notice it at the bottom of this post).  Installing this button into your website makes it easy for people to retweet content on your page.

I like the official tweet button because it uses the custom url shortener t.co and because it gives you the option to suggest users for the person using it to follow after they tweet.  You can grab one at: http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton

2. Ask your friends to retweet you

If you have a tweet you want retweeted simply send a message to your friends asking them to retweet it for you.

“Hey there, Garin here, I just finished working on a comprehensive post about 35 ways to get more retweets and if you could share it for me I’d really appreciate it. Here is the link: http://t.co/cE9D6YE Cheers!”

You can message your friends with DM’s via twitter, with facebook, or even with good old email when asking for a retweet.

3. Repeat your best Tweets

If you worked hard on a blog post that you know deserves some attention don’t be afraid to tweet it out a few times.

When you repeat your tweet, mix it up.  Don’t tweet the exact same tweet every time.  Re-word your tweet and you will appeal to different people each time you tweet it.

There are now in excess of 100,000,000 tweets a day.  It is harder than ever to get your tweets noticed these days, due to the sheer volume of tweets.

As long as you don’t spam, and add value, it’s fair game.

4. Tweet breaking news

If you tweet breaking news there is a good chance others will share this news as well, and your tweet might just spread like wildfire.

5. Say thanks!

When you start getting a ton of retweets it is difficult to thank everyone who retweets you, but if you notice that someone has retweeted you several times then take the time to say “thanks” and they will be more likely to retweet you again.

Thank these people for retweeting you and you will gain a new follower and friend that will probably retweet you again.

6. Get as many highly relevant followers as possible

The more followers you have, the more likely you are to get retweets.

To get more followers check out my TweetAdder review and my post on how to get more Twitter followers.

7. Build Retweeting Relationships

Wear this shirt for more retweets

Promote the content of others more than you promote your own content.  The ratio that Chris Brogan uses is 15 x 1, and it seems to work well for him.  Help others get their message out and they will be much more likely to do the same for you.

8. Include @mentions to those referenced in the post

Include the twitter user name of others in your blog post, and then send a shout out to them on twitter letting them know.

There is a good chance other people will retweet your post when they find out they are in the post you are sharing!

9. Use Tweriod for a Free Analysis of the Best Times to Tweet

Tweriod is a free Twitter analysis tool that analyses where the last 1,000 people who followed you are from and makes a custom recommendation about when you should tweet based on that.

The only problem with Tweriod is the more followers you get beyond 1,000 the less accurate it becomes at telling you the best time to send your tweets.

10. Time your Tweets During Peak Hours

Have too many followers for Tweriod to be effective for you?

Tweet between 2pm and 6pm EST for maximum effectiveness.

11. Schedule your tweets for maximum effectiveness

I use Hootsuite to schedule my tweets, but tweet scheduling is built into several twitter apps, such as TweetDeck and TweetAdder.

By scheduling tweets you can ensure that your content will be sent out during peak times for maximum exposure, even if you are not there to manually tweet it.

A tool called buffer enables you to schedule tweets at the best time automatically, without having to manually input the time you want to tweet.

12. Leave room in your tweet for RT and your user name

Many people (such as myself) still prefer to retweet using the classic style.

Make sure you leave enough room in your tweet for RT and your user name whenever possible, so as many people as possible retweet you.

13. Trending Topics

Trending topics are a powerful way to get into a stream of tweets that as many as thousands of people are tweeting about at once, and this can help a clever tweet go viral fast.

By tweeting about a trending topic you give your tweet greater exposure than it typically will receive.  Some people use this tactic on a regular basis and those who do so with success are often retweeted hundreds or thousands of times and can pick up several thousands of followers in the process.

14. Use a Twitpic

Twitpic is the fifth most popular twitter application, and the reason is simple: it gets a lot of attention.

Tweet a cool picture and the odds are quite good that it will be retweeted.

15. Check out tweetmeme

The stories that are on tweetmeme are there because they have already proven themselves to retweet well.

Retweeting the hottest links on tweetmeme is a sure fire way to get your tweets noticed.

16. Tweet Great Quotes

Take a minute and dig up some great quotes.

Great quotes seem to always retweet very well for me, and I’m sure they will do the same for you.

There are plenty of quotes websites online, just Google “Best [Topic] Quotes” and you’ll certainly find some good ones.

17. Download Dan Zarrella’s free “The Science of Retweets” Report

The Science of Retweets is a free 22 page eBook by Dan Zarrella.This book contains all of the graphs in this post about retweets, and more.

18. Tweet Links

Based on data tweets with links tweet better than tweets without links.  The reason for this may be largely due to the fact that tweets without links are often simple daily updates, which make no sense to retweet.

Do not misinterpret this data and think that tweets without links cannot retweet well.  Some of my bolder tweets are on par, in terms of retweets, with tweets containing links to my most valuable content.

19. Build friendships with social media giants

If you can manage to build friendships with twitter giants you will benefit from their exposure when they talk to you, and if they retweet your tweets.

Some people with considerably fewer followers than me retweet my content all the time and when I notice this I often return the favour.  Even though someone might have many fewer followers I still appreciate the help.

20. Use the most ReTweetable Words in your Tweets

21. Don’t use the least ReTweetable words in your Tweets

22. Use the ReTweetable words finder tool

The Most ReTweetable Words Finder Tool will allow you to find the most ReTweetable words about your specific topic.

This tool will show you the 20 most ReTweetable words about any given topic. Simply enter a keyword (like “marketing”) and click analyze.

This tool only analyzes about 1500 tweets at a time, which may or may not return relevant results for you.  I hope Dan builds out a more robust version of this tool in the future.

23. Include “Please RT” in your tweet

Some people are simply programmed to respond favorably to “please.”

Ask people nicely to help you and you may be surprised by the ground you are able to gain.  Dan Zazarella has proven that there is data behind the effectiveness of this strategy.

24. Target your tweets to your audience

If you use a tool like TweetAdder to really focus in on a highly relevant niche and connect with people who are the most likely to relate to your content.

TweetAdder enables you to build connections with people based on keywords they have in their bio.

By following people who are interested in topics similar to the content you post there is a very good chance they will follow you back, and this is an effective strategy for building your network fast.

25. If you have WordPress install social sharing plugin

This plugin digg digg will allow you to easily install a tweet button or a tweetmeme button into every post and page.  You can even select the “Ajax floating” option so that the buttons follow users down the page as they scroll.  Digg digg is currently installed in this blog.

Another social plugin I use on this blog at the bottom of every post is called Sexy Bookmarks.

26. Run a twitter contest where contestants enter by retweeting

Twitter contests often go viral.  Certain tweeters eat them up.  The cooler the prize you are willing to give away the more likely people are to retweet your link.

You can use the twitter tool backtweets to keep track of everyone who has retweeted the entry link.

27. Get people to pay you with a retweet

If you have a digital product, such as an ebook or an Mp.3 you can use the service paywithatweet.com to offer it to free for any twitter user who sends out a retweet for you.

If you have great content to share this is a very cool way to get some viral exposure as you distribute it.

28. Give away something free

I have gotten tons of retweets on my free 7 day twitter eCourse.  One of the seven days contains a module on “How to get more retweets.”

You can also give away a video course, an eBook, or any digital content.  The higher the value of the gift you give, the greater your chances are of getting retweets.

29. Use bit.ly or su.pr for links

Bit.ly is the standard url shortener for twitter, and due to that fact it is highly familiar with twitter users, and it will get you the best click through rate.

Su.pr can get you more traffic by syndicating your content to StumbleUpon, which is a community of over nine million users.  I know from experience that StumbleUpon can lead to large windfalls of traffic (to the tune of tens of thousands of visitors) so I do believe in StumbleUpon as a very viable source of traffic.

30. Use #Hashtags

Try using #Hashtags.  Just don’t use #ReallyAnnoyingLongHashTags.

The most effective way I ever saw hash tags leveraged to promote retweets was when a company offered to donate $.01 to Livestrong everytime the hashtag #beatcancer was used.  The hashtag  went viral, was used thousands of times.  For a few hundred dollars the became a twitter marketing success.

31. Use Backtweets

UPDATE: Backtweets was acquired by Twitter and is currently not available.

If you have a popular post that has gotten some retweets, there is a good chance that it will get retweeted by some people who will not mention your username.

Use backtweets to find everyone who has retweeted your link.

32. Check out this presentation by Dan Zarella

33. Give if you want to get

Promote others like crazy.  Then when you throw your own content into the fray there will be many others ready to return the favor.  Reciprocity is a powerful force.

34. Tweet more often later in the week

A good strategy to for attaining retweets is to Tweet your best stuff out during peak times.

The peak time for Twitter is after lunch. Between noon and 5 p.m. EST is when you will probably find that you get the most retweets.

The best days of the week for retweets are Thursday and Friday.

35. Tweet awesome content

Content is king, and awesome content naturally leads to a large number of retweets.  Check out the twitter run @toptweets for an idea of the most successful tweets.  Top Tweets algorithmically selects and retweets some of the most interesting tweets spreading across Twitter.

I have also curated a list called awesome content that contains the people who I have noticed share the most awesome content on a regular basis.

Cool content like this blog post is also great for retweeting .

Bonus Infographic

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Now that you know 35 ways to get more retweets go out and put them into action!

How do you get more RT’s? Let us know in the comments.

Oh,  and one more thing: Please RT this post

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75 way to get more Twitter Followers

Kenny Fillinger

  This mission of this article is to provide you with the best tips on the Internet to help you get more Twitter followers.

The tips in this article can help you turbo boost your Twitter following and take your Twitter brand to the next level.

This article covers strategies you can apply to grow your Twitter network both online and off.

These powerful tips for building a strong Twitter brand can attract literally tens of thousands of followers!

If you want more followers for your Twitter account leave a comment with your Twitter username and let us know your favorite tip for getting more Twitter followers.

1. Upload a Real Photo of Yourself

Use your actual face shot to show your identity.

Even though digital communication is increasingly becoming the order of the day, people are social creatures who prefer connecting to people they can easily identify.

People are more likely to respond emotionally to the real human face.

2. Create an Interesting Biography

Your biography should be thought provoking and most importantly factual rather than a work of fiction.

Your bio box should include a description of who you are and what you do.

This helps you create a professional look even before anyone relates with you.

3. Reply to Tweets Publicly

Although replying with a private (direct) message is quite easy, when you do this other people will be unable to see your response.

If you rarely reply publicly on your twitter profile, people may think that you are unsociable.

Keep your Twitter conversions public and this will help you build a reputation as a savvy Twitter user and attract new followers to your profile.

4. Follow Experts in Your Niche

Make sure you follow people and companies that have a solid position in your niche.

Following the right people is a sure way of getting noticed especially when you start a dialogue or reply to them.

In addition, following experts in your niche is a sure way for you to learn important tactics from them.

On the other hand, most network marketers look into the followers list of experts when they want to follow people with similar interests.

5. Focus on Helping Others

People join twitter in order to share ideas, interact with people who have the same interests and engage in interesting conversations.

Anyone who is on board only to make money from their followers will be doomed and failure and ridicule.

Twitter users are smart and they can easily tell if you are there to have a conversation or if you have been blown there by the winds of business.

However, you can still promote your business on Twitter.

For instance, for every 20 non-promotional, informational and useful tweets you can have room for one that promotes or sells your business.

A smart way to promote your business is by creating blog posts that help your audience and introduce people to your business in a non-pushy way.

Since the main purpose of twitter is to communicate and socialize, it is vital to do less selling and more branding.  This will create more trust and respect from the people in your network.

For more promotion tips check out these 15 Twitter promotion ideas.

6. Don’t Post Cryptic Tweets

It is very important to ensure that everyone can understand all the tweets you post.

This is a sure way of ensuring that all your followers feel like they are part of your tweets and conversations.

Take advice from Nietzsche:

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound strive for obscurity.

7. Create a Compelling First Impression

This is vital especially for people who first discover you and are deciding whether to follow you or not.

Since they want to know more about you make sure they get a great first impression.

If you are managing a business page, there is a good chance you or your employer will want to use the company name for the name field of the Twitter profile.

But just because you use the business name for your Twitter account does not mean that you should not give the profile personality.

Use the bio field and / or background to identify the actual human(s) responsible for tweeting.  If multiple  people manage one account use cotags with initials and a high hat to identify who is tweeting what. Since my name is Garin Kilpatrick if I was tweeting on an account managed by several people I would add the cotag ^GK to the end of my tweets.

The more personal you can make your profile the more people will be to connect and communicate with you.

It’s important to note that twitter does not display search results for people who do not have a complete user bio, real name and username.

8. Include Your Location

Just like a bio or face, including a location makes you a real person.

Be general if you are uncomfortable giving the exact directions to your office or home.

For example saying that you live in northern London is good enough.

The more specific you are about your location the more it is that people from the area around you will find and follow you.

9. Use the Twitter Search Tool

You can easily use Twitter search to find other people who tweet about the specific terms that you are interested in.

For instance, if health is your area of interest, you can search fitness, exercise or diet.

You can say “Hi” and follow people who share the same interests as you hoping that they will follow you back.

10. Offer Great Resources to Your Followers

Be resourceful, helpful and supportive by helping your followers find appropriate answers to their questions.

You gain your followers trust by sharing helpful information.

Once twitter users learn that they can benefit from your tweets or in any other way, they are more likely to follow you and keep track of your activities on twitter.

11. Do Not Spam

Do not send irrelevant or pushy private messages to your followers.

The last thing you want to be considered is a spammer.

Frequency of posts is another thing associated with spammers.  Although frequent tweets will likely do you more good than harm, spacing those tweets out will help you avoid being labeled a spammer and get you better results by connecting with more people over time.

You will lose followers if you are spamming.

12. Create a Story

Everyone loves stories. Creating interesting and well structured stories is a sure way of earning more followers since people are bound to follow them.

You can create engaging stories about yourself of your business using tweets, photos, and videos.

Creating anticipation and excitement is the winning formula.

13. Participate in #FollowFriday

Throughout the week keep track of the people who retweet and make a positive impression on you and reward them with a #FollowFriday recommendation.

More often than not people you recommend for #FollowFriday will return the favor.

14. Write Killer Headlines

Killer headlines are a sure way of grabbing peoples’ attention.

This will help you increase your twitter following and the number of clicks on your tweets.

For some awesome headline tips check out this post about mind-blowing headlines.

15. Stay Positive and Avoid Negativity

Nowadays twitter is full of complains and negative tweets.

Posting negative tweets will put off some of your followers and cause people to unfollow you.

16. Adopt a Different View

Blog posts that take a different or unique angle to the normal provoke lots of comment which shows that they are doing well.

Although in most cases it is quite easy to go with the flow, it is vital to adopt a unique line of thought which will make you stand out from the rest.

17. Analyze and Optimize

Analyzing what your followers respond to will give you a clear path that you should follow in terms of what you should change and important aspects that you should focus in order to build a large and strong twitter following.

A twitter audit will help you balance your original tweets, replies, and retweets.

For more on this topic check out our post about 10 Awesome Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools.

18. Always Introduce Yourself Subtly

Once you follow someone new, be sure to brows their feed in order to find a tweet that you can respond to immediately.

This will make them see that you are active and paying attention and hence they are more likely to follow you back.

19. Build Trust and Familiarity With Your Followers

Post educative, interesting, and legit stories which can be in terms of lessons and tips.

Most people following you are more likely to retweet your content or even suggest you to other users.

Building trust and familiarity makes it easy for twitter users to reach out to you.

20. Buy Twitter Followers

The fastest way to get new followers is by buying them.

If you want to buy followers I recommend the service: Grow My Twitter Network.

21. Do Not Follow People Automatically

You should never follow people automatically without investigating who they are.

This increases the risk of following spammers who may hurt the credibility and authenticity of your entire twitter profile.

Brand yourself and your twitter channel.

Fill out your bio and add a professional head shot to your twitter account.

This will help you express who you are and how your business can help consumers (followers).

Conveying your personality accurately on twitter will help you appear authentic.

This will help you convey the same into your voice, tone and content shared.

This is an effective way of making you unforgettable in the eye of your followers.

22. Ask a Question

The beauty of twitter is true engagement which can be effectively stimulated by asking questions. This will create interaction as your followers try to respond to your questions. You should treat your twitter home feed like a chat room.

Drop in viable ideas

Everyone loves picking up new ideas and developing new solutions. Twitter is a great platform to connect with like-minded individuals and develop interesting ideas collectively.

Join twitter group chats

This is an excellent way of connecting with people and building more meaningful and deeper connections. On the other hand, such chats are very helpful to anyone blogging professionally or personally.

Such discussion are usually held once a month or once per week.

Ensure that you join appropriate chats where you will not feel out of place so as to participate by saying interesting and relevant things. As a result other twitter users will notice and follow you.

23. Follow Those Who Follow You

Though it is beneficial to have a large twitter following, it is also vital to follow those who follow you.

In addition, their followers will see that you are an active and fair twitter user and are probably going to follow you as well.

The give and take aspect of twitter is what makes it very unique, therefore, be sure to return favors.

24. Reply as Fast as Possible

Twitter is a real-time social network and the faster you can reply to people the realer you will be to them.

Money likes speed.  People like doing business with people they know they can quickly and easily contact if they ever need support.

25. Leverage Your Other Social Media Profiles

Link to your Twitter profile from your other profiles across the web. Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc.

On your Facebook page include a link to your Twitter profile in the Websites section.

On YouTube you can link to your Twitter profile in your bio, and in the description section for videos.  You can also mention your Twitter username in your videos, or watermark it as text on top of the video.

26. Link to Your Twitter Name in Your Email Signature

With every email you send you have an opportunity to link the recipient(s) of your Twitter profile.

I use a cool email signature service called WiseStamp that includes a twitter icon in my email signature.

If you don’t want to use wisestamp to include an image link you can simply use a text link that says you should follow me on Twitter here.

27. Tell People They Should Follow You On Twitter

Dustin Curtis did a twitter experiment on his blog and found that when he said:

“you should follow me on twitter here“

his click through rate improved significantly.

28. Tweet Awesome Content

If you can get more retweets you can get more followers.  Every retweet you get should

help you net a few new followers.  How many new followers a retweet gets you depends on who retweets you.

Share awesome content you will get more retweets, and more followers. When people visit your Twitter page and see that you are tweeting awesome content they will see the value in following your stream, and will be more likely to follow you.

Not sure where to start for awesome content? Check out my awesome content Twitter list.

29. Ask Your Followers to Retweet You

Ask your followers to “Please RT” your best content.

Saying please has been proven to get better results.  I have tested this out and it really does work.

Every retweet usually leads to a few new followers, depending on how many followers the person who retweets you has.

Check out my article about how to get more retweets for more tips that will help your tweets go viral.

30. Create Targeted Connections

TweetAdder is a ridiculously powerful Twitter marketing and connection building program.

I have used TweetAdder to build tens of thousands of relevant connections and I highly recommend it.

I created a comprehensive TweetAdder guide explaining in detail which features of the program are useful, and how to use them for maximum effect.

31. Reach Out to Your New Followers

This can be something as simple as an automatic bubble tweet saying hello.

Even just using TweetAdder to send a message saying “Hi, thanks for following” to introduce yourself to new followers will help you keep more of them.

Use auto-dm’s with caution; don’t use them to send a spammy link, instead try to spark a real conversation and connection with a friendly hello.

I recommend against using TrueTwit Validation because many people would sooner unfollow you than going through the cumbersome process of validating you as a “True twit.”

32. Carefully Include Keywords in Your Bio

The more details you can include in your bio, the better.  Tools like TweetAdder allow people to search and find people to follow based on the keywords in your bio.

Try to include keywords that both describe you and the content you tweet about.

33. Use #Hashtags in Some of Your Tweets

Hashtags can help people find your tweets through trending topics, and Twitter search.

#Hashtags are not pretty to look atso use them sparingly.  Some people detest them and will unfollow you if you use them all the time.

#AvoidStupidLongHashtagsThough

#Hashtags do open your tweets to other tweet streams so using them when you are starting out can open your tweets up to a larger audience than just your followers.

The more people that find your tweets, the more people find (and follow) you.

34. Tweet Cool Pictures

People like to see and share cool pictures.

Pictures tend to retweet well, and the more retweets you get the more followers you can potentially net.

A few cool Twitter photo sharing tools include:

TwitPic - TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter

Instagram – iPhone photo sharing service. Won app of the year from Apple.

Tweetphoto - Photo sharing made simple

Yfrog - Share your images and videos on Twitter

35. Block and Report Spammers

In most cases, the spammers are first names with a long number.

Following such users can confuse the automated systems as they try to sort through new twitter users.

This will help your account remain credible and speed the process of sorting new followers.

Keep a clean list of followers who are useful personally and professionally.

36. Retweet Others the Classic Way

The best way to get on the radar of others is with a retweet in the classic style, rather than the new style.

A classic retweet is when you start the tweet with RT and their username, for example:

“RT @Garin: 50 Innovative Ways to Get More Twitter Followers – http://twittertoolsbook.com/how-to-get-more-twitter-followers/”

Doing this causes your retweet to show up in their mention stream, which is more visible than retweeting in the new one-click style.

37. Unfollow People Who Don’t Follow You

For those who don’t own a Twitter marketing program like TweetAdder there is a free alternative called Manage Flitter that creates a list of all people who don’t follow you and makes it easy for you to unfollow them.

38. Email Your Contacts and Ask Them to Follow You

Send an email to your existing contact list letting them know that you are on twitter, and that they should be following you.

One way to do this is to use an emboldened post-script in any newsletters you might send.

For example: 

P.S. Follow me on Twitter @Garin.

39. Tweet During Peak Times

Tweet during peak twitter traffic times.

Check out this post I wrote about everything you need to know about timing your tweets so you can get your tweets more exposure.

The more exposure your tweets get the more followers you will pick up in the process.

40. Participate in Trending Topics

Trending topics are visible to thousands of people at once.

Participating in a trending topic can give your tweet more exposure than it normally would.

With more exposure your tweets have a better chance of spreading, and this can net you a bunch of new followers in the process.

41. Follow Highly Relevant People

The more relevant the people you follow are, the better the chance is that they will follow you back.

TweetAdder can help with this by allowing you to target people to follow based on the keywords they use in their bio, or in their tweets.

The best way to ensure you are building relevant connections is to check out people for yourself.

42. Engage with Twitter Giants

If you can engage Twitter Giants, you can potentially get a large amount of exposure if they respond to you.

Your chances of getting the attention of a Twitter Giant grows as your following grows.  Be persistent.  Get them on lists and tweet their original content.  Mention them for #FollowFriday.

I engage with Twitter Giants on a regular basis and I’m sure that if you keep trying you can do the same.

43. Use a Tweet Button in Your Blog Posts

Sites with twitter share buttons installed get seven times the twitter mentions as websites without them.

Twitter recently launched the official tweet button, and I recommend you use it.

If you install this button into your pages or posts manually you can also choose to have the button recommend people to follow after a  tweet is sent.

If you are running a self-hosted WordPress blog the best plugin for integrating a tweet button and other social buttons is Digg Digg.

Digg Digg is the plugin that installed the social sharing buttons that follow you as you scroll down this page.

44. Do a Charity Promotion

Drew Carey (@Drewfromtv) is paying $1 for every follower he gets, up until 1,000,000 followers.

This strategy has netted him over 600,000 followers already, and plenty of publicity.

45. Create a Great Looking Twitter Background

Most people still use the web based version of Twitter, which means they will see your background when surfing to your profile.

If you take the time to create a custom Twitter background people will notice and you will get more follows as a result.

Check out the tool Themelon for millions of color combinations.

46. Pick a Short and Memorable Twitter User Name

The shorter your username the better.

Many people still use the classic style retweets, so having a shorter username means that more people will be able to retweet your tweets.

47. Tweet Often

When I met @unmarketing he told me the month he became really big on Twitter he tweeted about 10,000 times.

By tweeting all the time you might piss a bunch of people off, but the ones who don’t unfollow you will be much more familiar with you, and will be more likely to retweet you.

How effective this strategy is depends entirely on what you tweet about, of course.

The more you tweet, the better chance you have of your tweets being seen by people who do not follow you yet.

The more recent your tweets are, the more relevant it will seem for someone to follow you.

48. Run a Contest

Running a successful Twitter contest is a great way to attract new followers. Offer a good prize and make sure you clearly communicate the rules of entry. If your prize is related to your brand then it can also help find targeted followers who are interested in your area of expertise.

Be creative! Try giving away an experience, a vacation, a meeting with a celebrity. Contests draw attention! Offer multiple prizes, including a grand prize, 3-5 mid-level prizes, and as many small prizes as you feel like.

Set a hashtag for your contest like#mycontestisawesome or #winmystuff, and include it in every tweet about your contest.

Launch your contest through Twitter and any other mediums you are using. Blogs are great at driving contest traffic, because they can explain the prizes and rules in greater detail.

You can use the conest as an inbound marketing vehicle for your website and award prizes based on  who drives the most traffic back to the contest page, thus helping it spread virally!  Get contest entrants to use bit.ly links which have built in analytics so that you can track who sends the most traffic.

49. Use Twitter in Your Blog Comments

When replying to posts on other people’s blogs, leave your Twitter name in your reply.

If you are commenting on a disqus comment system (like the one in this post) you can click a twitter icon and share your comment on Twitter.

50. Interact

This is something many new users miss on Twitter. Twitter is not simply a medium to broadcast like television or radio, although some people do drop the ball and use it this way.  Twitter is meant for both broadcasting AND interaction.

Answer back to people who tweet you. People who talk to you will be much more likely to follow you.

Whenever someone tweets or retweets me I check to make sure I am following them, and I imagine that many other people check this out as well.

51. Install a Twitter Follow Button

The official Twitter follow button makes it easy for people to follow you directly from your site.

Installing a Twitter button is really easy, it just takes copying and pasting the code, and inserting your username.  I have two twitter follow buttons installed into the sidebar of this blog, feel free to use them if you want to see how they work.

52. Add Yourself to Twitter Directories

There are directories like Twellow, wefollow, and several others where you can add your Twitter profile and get more followers.

Wefollow is an especially helpful Twitter directory because it is the largest directory on the web.

There are dozens of directories of Twitter users online, including Twiends, WeFollow, and Twellow, and more.

Add yourself to as many directories as you can find under the proper categories, and you will begin to see some users following you from these sites.

When someone follows you through one of these directories you will receive a notification email from Twitter – if you have these turned on. In these notifications you can see which directory they followed you through.

If you’re using Twitter Marketing software like TweetAdder you’ll want to turn these notifications off because it gets annoying with a few hundred daily emails from Twitter.

53. Write Articles and Place your Twitter Name in the Signature Box

Write articles on your topic of interest and place your Twitter name in the resource box. Submit these articles to places like EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com.

54. Install a Twitter Widget into Your Website

Did you know that you can add a Twitter widget on LinkedIn that will display your recent tweets? There are many places online that will allow you to display a list of your latest tweets, and these widgets are a great source of new followers!

You can get an official custom Twitter widget that works on any site where you can add custom code!

I use publitweet widgets to embed my Twitter stream into my blogs, since these are more powerful than official Twitter widgets and import not only my tweets, but also a preview of the content that was shared if a link was tweeted.  See the image to the right for an idea of what these look like, although the design is custom.

55. Link it Up

The more links you have to your twitter profile the more ways there are for people to follow you!

This means online and offline, put a link to your Twitter profile everywhere you can.

Link to Twitter from Facebook, from your blog, from your guest posts, from your videos, in your email signature, and anywhere else you can think of.

Usually if you just put an “@” sign in front of your username people will understand that you are listing your Twitter name.

56. Write a Guest Post

Even if you don’t have a blog of your own, you can easily gain notoriety and followers by writing posts for other blogs.

Running a blog is hard work, and most people and companies welcome well written posts to give them a break.

If you do score an opportunity to guest post, link to your blog if you like, but be sure to link to your Twitter account as well.

Want to learn more about guest posting? Check out these ten great guest posting tips.

If you are interested in writing a post for this blog contact us and let us know your idea for a post!

57. Be Funny

Laughter is the best medicine. Funny and witty tweets retweet very well.

Just check out favstar for some of the funniest tweets.

@Badbanana and @shitmydadsays are always good for a laugh.

58. Sign up for my free 7 day eCourse

Enroll in my free 7 day twitter eCourse and you will receive awesome twitter tips and tricks by email that will enable you build a powerful twitter presence that will help you get many more followers.

59. Advertise Vacancies

If your company of business is doing well, you can use your twitter account to advertise any vacancies that you may have.

If twitter users realize that they may benefit from such opportunities, it is more likely that they will follow you in order to look out for your feed.

Share opportunities with your followers and they will retweet and recommend you and this will lead to more followers.

60. Do Podcasts

Podcasting is a great way to get attention, it showcases your expertise, and helps build an audience.

Creating your own podcast is simple. All you have to do is download a program such as Audacity (or, if you’re on a Mac, GarageBand works well.)

Record your audio, edit out long pauses or background noise, and make sure to mention that people should follow you on Twitter!

61. Host a Webinar

Webinars are online seminars, and can be a powerful way to build your brand and your Twitter following.

A Webinar is a perfect medium to get more Twitter followers fast, since you can link directly to your Twitter account during and after the webinar for attendees.

You can begin by creating a template for your slideshow that includes your Twitter information in the bottom right hand corner. Many attendees will automatically look in that corner of the presentation last, while listening to your information.

Encourage Twitter users to follow you throughout the presentation, and talk about the benefits of the content you share on Twitter.

If you plan on hosting a Q&A session ask people to follow you on Twitter and tweet their questions. Not only will this get you immediate followers from the participants, but their followers will see the questions being posed to you as well, and this can lead to more followers.

The software I use to host my webinars is called anymeeting and it is free to use for up to 200 attendees.

62. Do customer support through Twitter

Now, we’re not suggesting you throw away your helpdesk, but add Twitter as a support channel. You may find that users are already tweeting questions at you. Most good helpdesk software already offers Twitter integration.

Some people like posting support questions via Twitter, as they feel the public nature of it will lead to a faster response. Some prefer using private channels and may not use Twitter, but adding it will win you some new followers providing you offer good timely support through it.

63. Integrate Twitter with Your Videos

People love to watch videos. Creating video tutorials for your area of expertise is a great way to get exposure for yourself, and your Twitter presence.

Place your Twitter username in various places in the video, and you can even use a watermark or video annotation so that your twitter username is constantly visible.

If you have a YouTube channel make sure to include a link to your twitter profile on your channel page.

Offline Strategies for Getting More Twitter Followers

64. Rent a Billboard

If you are really ambitious, rent a billboard and put your Twitter name on it.  This is what Ashton Kutcher did when he was racing against CNN to be the first to 1,000,000 followers.

This strategy worked for Ashton and I’m sure it could work for you too if you have a few thousand dollars to cover the cost.

65. Word of Mouth

Tell your friends and relatives to follow you on Twitter.

Bring Twitter up in person when you are chatting with people.  If the people you are talking to active on Twitter convince them to follow you, or if they are not on Twitter convince them to join.

66. Speak at Conferences

While most people already know that speaking at conferences is great for business, many people forget to promote their social media accounts through this platform.

The next time you’re giving a presentation at a seminar or conference remember to mention your Twitter account!

Create a presentation #Hashtag and encourage attendees to tweet about your talk for best results.

If you are using presentation software or an on-screen image during your speech, display your username on screen.

If your audience likes what you have to say, they may just follow you later! You can even host the conference yourself, including your Twitter information on conference tickets and tweet the events as they happen. When it comes to live events, the sky is the limit!

67. Put Your Twitter Name on Your Business Card

Twitter promotion does not have to be limited to the online world.  Include your Twitter name right on your business card you will be able to get several new followers.

Don’t have your Twitter username on your business cards yet?  You’re in luck Vista Print is currently giving away 250 business cards for free.

68. Host a Tweetup

Most of the time, offline strategies involve people finding you offline and connecting with you online afterwards.

Tweetups allow you the opportunity to connect with Twitter users in person, even if you have never met before.

Because the group of Twitter users that meet is often diverse you will likely gain at least a few new followers from a tweetup.

You can start a tweetup simply by asking around your circle of twitter followers. Offer to host the event at a coffee shop, restaurant, or even your office.

Create a dedicated web page or blog post for the event, a hashtag (for example, #mytweetup) so that users can follow the event, and encourage tweeters to share with their friends and followers as well.

You can gain large amounts of exposure from something this simple!

69. Do a Radio Interview

Much like speaking at conferences, radio interviews are a great way to get attention.

Whether through AM/FM, satellite, or Blog Talk Radio, the interviews can be used to gain some positive and wildly popular PR.

To be interviewed on the radio you need to position yourself as an expert. Watch your local stations for requests (they often publish them via social media,) list yourself in expert directories, and even contact the station directly and ask if they have any upcoming opportunities for experts.

While you won’t have a visual medium to display your Twitter account, repeating your Twitter username a few times during your interview can help you gain new followers. You can also use your interview time to promote contests and upcoming events through your Twitter feed, which is sure to get you some new followers in no time at all!

70. Newspaper Interviews and Articles

If you can somehow tie your business or industry to a current event, it can be easy to get an article in the traditional press that includes your information. You can distribute your own article via press release, or make yourself available for expert interviews through directories and by approaching the media directly.

If you have the resources, hiring a public relations firm can be a great help with this. They can get you expert interviews in many newspapers and national publications, and because of their existing relationship with the editor, you will often be allowed to include a bit more company information than the average submission.

If you don’t have the resources (or just prefer DIY methods), write a compelling press release that ties your business to a current event. Distribute it to the local media, and call to follow up. Create a media kit or press kit for distribution when someone asks for information about you and your business. Getting interviews in traditional press isn’t difficult for a small business owner, but it does take an investment of time and some persistence.

When you do gain some media exposure, while most companies are just now beginning to include links to their website in the article, you can include links to social media accounts like Twitter to get new followers and exposure for your expertise.

71. Attend Networking Events

If you run a business, you likely have a local networking event that you do or can attend.

Publicizing your Twitter profile at events like these through your business cards, stickers, and stamps can gain you a large number of targeted Twitter followers very quickly!

Be sure to offer an incentive for following you, such as free reports, discounts, or updates.

72. Give Away a Free eBook

Few things say “I’m an expert” like being an author.

While print titles still have more clout with traditional audiences, eBooks like those for Kindle and other e-readers are gaining popularity.

If you’re looking to establish yourself as an expert, traditional publishing houses may get you the most notoriety, but self-publishing with a good public relations agent can get you similar results today.

Being sure to include your social media links – including Twitter – is a great way to allow readers to connect with your expertise after reading your book. Start by offering your Twitter ID on the inside front cover, where many bookstore shoppers will look for your bio; then include your information on the back cover, in the introduction, and throughout the book.

If you are willing to think outside of the box, you can even include your Twitter ID in the footer of every page. Even if they don’t follow you immediately after reading the book, they will subconsciously recognize your account in the future and be more willing to follow you if they come across your name again.

Several prominent social media celebrities even use Twitter to launch subsequent titles, so don’t overlook the possibilities here. The opportunities are endless!

73. Research and Publish a Report

Reports and white papers are still an essential form of communication for industries and markets around the globe. If you have any data or research to share, or even just helpful ideas, publishing a report or whitepaper can successfully get you the attention of industry leaders, media, and yes – social media.

You can get your white papers and reports distributed by trade magazine distributors across North America, which will often give you the customers’ information. Offer the report or whitepaper on your own website, as well as on Twitter itself. You may find that the link to your report gets retweeted, getting you valuable exposure!

As with other forms of offline publishing, be sure to utilize your author’s bio and include links to Twitter and other profiles.

74. Magazine Articles

Like newspaper articles, magazine articles can get you great attention from readers and potential customers. Unlike newspapers, however, they can be much longer in length, explain things in much more depth, and offer more opportunities for promotion.

Go to the website for your favorite industry magazine and look for a link to their publishing schedule. There, magazines will list topics that they are going to be covering in the coming months. If you feel you can contribute to one of these topics, contact the editor with a proposal for your article. Do not send the whole article! Editors need a quick glance to determine if your content will be worthy, before approving you to begin work.

The great thing about working with magazines is that in certain circumstances, you can even get paid for your submission. How many opportunities do you have that allow your advertising to pay you? Magazine editors will typically allow for a longer author’s bio, offer more opportunities for promotion, and may even extend offers for inexpensive advertising in exchange for your contribution.

75. Use a Quick Response (QR) Code

There are several services online that allow you to create quick response or QR codes. These codes are simple square barcodes that are gaining massive popularity with smartphone users, as they can be used to direct any phone to a specific web address just by taking a picture.

Create a QR code that links to your Twitter profile, and put it up everywhere – on your website, on your business cards, on any signage outside of your office or store, or anywhere else you can think of that might attract enough attention to be worth a snapshot.

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Jesse Killspatrick

Jesse Killspatrick

  This mission of this article is to provide you with the best tips on the Internet to help you get more Twitter followers.

The tips in this article can help you turbo boost your Twitter following and take your Twitter brand to the next level.

This article covers strategies you can apply to grow your Twitter network both online and off.

These powerful tips for building a strong Twitter brand can attract literally tens of thousands of followers!

If you want more followers for your Twitter account leave a comment with your Twitter username and let us know your favorite tip for getting more Twitter followers.

1. Upload a Real Photo of Yourself

Use your actual face shot to show your identity.

Even though digital communication is increasingly becoming the order of the day, people are social creatures who prefer connecting to people they can easily identify.

People are more likely to respond emotionally to the real human face.

2. Create an Interesting Biography

Your biography should be thought provoking and most importantly factual rather than a work of fiction.

Your bio box should include a description of who you are and what you do.

This helps you create a professional look even before anyone relates with you.

3. Reply to Tweets Publicly

Although replying with a private (direct) message is quite easy, when you do this other people will be unable to see your response.

If you rarely reply publicly on your twitter profile, people may think that you are unsociable.

Keep your Twitter conversions public and this will help you build a reputation as a savvy Twitter user and attract new followers to your profile.

4. Follow Experts in Your Niche

Make sure you follow people and companies that have a solid position in your niche.

Following the right people is a sure way of getting noticed especially when you start a dialogue or reply to them.

In addition, following experts in your niche is a sure way for you to learn important tactics from them.

On the other hand, most network marketers look into the followers list of experts when they want to follow people with similar interests.

5. Focus on Helping Others

People join twitter in order to share ideas, interact with people who have the same interests and engage in interesting conversations.

Anyone who is on board only to make money from their followers will be doomed and failure and ridicule.

Twitter users are smart and they can easily tell if you are there to have a conversation or if you have been blown there by the winds of business.

However, you can still promote your business on Twitter.

For instance, for every 20 non-promotional, informational and useful tweets you can have room for one that promotes or sells your business.

A smart way to promote your business is by creating blog posts that help your audience and introduce people to your business in a non-pushy way.

Since the main purpose of twitter is to communicate and socialize, it is vital to do less selling and more branding.  This will create more trust and respect from the people in your network.

For more promotion tips check out these 15 Twitter promotion ideas.

6. Don’t Post Cryptic Tweets

It is very important to ensure that everyone can understand all the tweets you post.

This is a sure way of ensuring that all your followers feel like they are part of your tweets and conversations.

Take advice from Nietzsche:

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound strive for obscurity.

7. Create a Compelling First Impression

This is vital especially for people who first discover you and are deciding whether to follow you or not.

Since they want to know more about you make sure they get a great first impression.

If you are managing a business page, there is a good chance you or your employer will want to use the company name for the name field of the Twitter profile.

But just because you use the business name for your Twitter account does not mean that you should not give the profile personality.

Use the bio field and / or background to identify the actual human(s) responsible for tweeting.  If multiple  people manage one account use cotags with initials and a high hat to identify who is tweeting what. Since my name is Garin Kilpatrick if I was tweeting on an account managed by several people I would add the cotag ^GK to the end of my tweets.

The more personal you can make your profile the more people will be to connect and communicate with you.

It’s important to note that twitter does not display search results for people who do not have a complete user bio, real name and username.

8. Include Your Location

Just like a bio or face, including a location makes you a real person.

Be general if you are uncomfortable giving the exact directions to your office or home.

For example saying that you live in northern London is good enough.

The more specific you are about your location the more it is that people from the area around you will find and follow you.

9. Use the Twitter Search Tool

You can easily use Twitter search to find other people who tweet about the specific terms that you are interested in.

For instance, if health is your area of interest, you can search fitness, exercise or diet.

You can say “Hi” and follow people who share the same interests as you hoping that they will follow you back.

10. Offer Great Resources to Your Followers

Be resourceful, helpful and supportive by helping your followers find appropriate answers to their questions.

You gain your followers trust by sharing helpful information.

Once twitter users learn that they can benefit from your tweets or in any other way, they are more likely to follow you and keep track of your activities on twitter.

11. Do Not Spam

Do not send irrelevant or pushy private messages to your followers.

The last thing you want to be considered is a spammer.

Frequency of posts is another thing associated with spammers.  Although frequent tweets will likely do you more good than harm, spacing those tweets out will help you avoid being labeled a spammer and get you better results by connecting with more people over time.

You will lose followers if you are spamming.

12. Create a Story

Everyone loves stories. Creating interesting and well structured stories is a sure way of earning more followers since people are bound to follow them.

You can create engaging stories about yourself of your business using tweets, photos, and videos.

Creating anticipation and excitement is the winning formula.

13. Participate in #FollowFriday

Throughout the week keep track of the people who retweet and make a positive impression on you and reward them with a #FollowFriday recommendation.

More often than not people you recommend for #FollowFriday will return the favor.

14. Write Killer Headlines

Killer headlines are a sure way of grabbing peoples’ attention.

This will help you increase your twitter following and the number of clicks on your tweets.

For some awesome headline tips check out this post about mind-blowing headlines.

15. Stay Positive and Avoid Negativity

Nowadays twitter is full of complains and negative tweets.

Posting negative tweets will put off some of your followers and cause people to unfollow you.

16. Adopt a Different View

Blog posts that take a different or unique angle to the normal provoke lots of comment which shows that they are doing well.

Although in most cases it is quite easy to go with the flow, it is vital to adopt a unique line of thought which will make you stand out from the rest.

17. Analyze and Optimize

Analyzing what your followers respond to will give you a clear path that you should follow in terms of what you should change and important aspects that you should focus in order to build a large and strong twitter following.

A twitter audit will help you balance your original tweets, replies, and retweets.

For more on this topic check out our post about 10 Awesome Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools.

18. Always Introduce Yourself Subtly

Once you follow someone new, be sure to brows their feed in order to find a tweet that you can respond to immediately.

This will make them see that you are active and paying attention and hence they are more likely to follow you back.

19. Build Trust and Familiarity With Your Followers

Post educative, interesting, and legit stories which can be in terms of lessons and tips.

Most people following you are more likely to retweet your content or even suggest you to other users.

Building trust and familiarity makes it easy for twitter users to reach out to you.

20. Buy Twitter Followers

The fastest way to get new followers is by buying them.

If you want to buy followers I recommend the service: Grow My Twitter Network.

21. Do Not Follow People Automatically

You should never follow people automatically without investigating who they are.

This increases the risk of following spammers who may hurt the credibility and authenticity of your entire twitter profile.

Brand yourself and your twitter channel.

Fill out your bio and add a professional head shot to your twitter account.

This will help you express who you are and how your business can help consumers (followers).

Conveying your personality accurately on twitter will help you appear authentic.

This will help you convey the same into your voice, tone and content shared.

This is an effective way of making you unforgettable in the eye of your followers.

22. Ask a Question

The beauty of twitter is true engagement which can be effectively stimulated by asking questions. This will create interaction as your followers try to respond to your questions. You should treat your twitter home feed like a chat room.

Drop in viable ideas

Everyone loves picking up new ideas and developing new solutions. Twitter is a great platform to connect with like-minded individuals and develop interesting ideas collectively.

Join twitter group chats

This is an excellent way of connecting with people and building more meaningful and deeper connections. On the other hand, such chats are very helpful to anyone blogging professionally or personally.

Such discussion are usually held once a month or once per week.

Ensure that you join appropriate chats where you will not feel out of place so as to participate by saying interesting and relevant things. As a result other twitter users will notice and follow you.

23. Follow Those Who Follow You

Though it is beneficial to have a large twitter following, it is also vital to follow those who follow you.

In addition, their followers will see that you are an active and fair twitter user and are probably going to follow you as well.

The give and take aspect of twitter is what makes it very unique, therefore, be sure to return favors.

24. Reply as Fast as Possible

Twitter is a real-time social network and the faster you can reply to people the realer you will be to them.

Money likes speed.  People like doing business with people they know they can quickly and easily contact if they ever need support.

25. Leverage Your Other Social Media Profiles

Link to your Twitter profile from your other profiles across the web. Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc.

On your Facebook page include a link to your Twitter profile in the Websites section.

On YouTube you can link to your Twitter profile in your bio, and in the description section for videos.  You can also mention your Twitter username in your videos, or watermark it as text on top of the video.

26. Link to Your Twitter Name in Your Email Signature

With every email you send you have an opportunity to link the recipient(s) of your Twitter profile.

I use a cool email signature service called WiseStamp that includes a twitter icon in my email signature.

If you don’t want to use wisestamp to include an image link you can simply use a text link that says you should follow me on Twitter here.

27. Tell People They Should Follow You On Twitter

Dustin Curtis did a twitter experiment on his blog and found that when he said:

“you should follow me on twitter here“

his click through rate improved significantly.

28. Tweet Awesome Content

If you can get more retweets you can get more followers.  Every retweet you get should

help you net a few new followers.  How many new followers a retweet gets you depends on who retweets you.

Share awesome content you will get more retweets, and more followers. When people visit your Twitter page and see that you are tweeting awesome content they will see the value in following your stream, and will be more likely to follow you.

Not sure where to start for awesome content? Check out my awesome content Twitter list.

29. Ask Your Followers to Retweet You

Ask your followers to “Please RT” your best content.

Saying please has been proven to get better results.  I have tested this out and it really does work.

Every retweet usually leads to a few new followers, depending on how many followers the person who retweets you has.

Check out my article about how to get more retweets for more tips that will help your tweets go viral.

30. Create Targeted Connections

TweetAdder is a ridiculously powerful Twitter marketing and connection building program.

I have used TweetAdder to build tens of thousands of relevant connections and I highly recommend it.

I created a comprehensive TweetAdder guide explaining in detail which features of the program are useful, and how to use them for maximum effect.

31. Reach Out to Your New Followers

This can be something as simple as an automatic bubble tweet saying hello.

Even just using TweetAdder to send a message saying “Hi, thanks for following” to introduce yourself to new followers will help you keep more of them.

Use auto-dm’s with caution; don’t use them to send a spammy link, instead try to spark a real conversation and connection with a friendly hello.

I recommend against using TrueTwit Validation because many people would sooner unfollow you than going through the cumbersome process of validating you as a “True twit.”

32. Carefully Include Keywords in Your Bio

The more details you can include in your bio, the better.  Tools like TweetAdder allow people to search and find people to follow based on the keywords in your bio.

Try to include keywords that both describe you and the content you tweet about.

33. Use #Hashtags in Some of Your Tweets

Hashtags can help people find your tweets through trending topics, and Twitter search.

#Hashtags are not pretty to look atso use them sparingly.  Some people detest them and will unfollow you if you use them all the time.

#AvoidStupidLongHashtagsThough

#Hashtags do open your tweets to other tweet streams so using them when you are starting out can open your tweets up to a larger audience than just your followers.

The more people that find your tweets, the more people find (and follow) you.

34. Tweet Cool Pictures

People like to see and share cool pictures.

Pictures tend to retweet well, and the more retweets you get the more followers you can potentially net.

A few cool Twitter photo sharing tools include:

TwitPic - TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter

Instagram – iPhone photo sharing service. Won app of the year from Apple.

Tweetphoto - Photo sharing made simple

Yfrog - Share your images and videos on Twitter

35. Block and Report Spammers

In most cases, the spammers are first names with a long number.

Following such users can confuse the automated systems as they try to sort through new twitter users.

This will help your account remain credible and speed the process of sorting new followers.

Keep a clean list of followers who are useful personally and professionally.

36. Retweet Others the Classic Way

The best way to get on the radar of others is with a retweet in the classic style, rather than the new style.

A classic retweet is when you start the tweet with RT and their username, for example:

“RT @Garin: 50 Innovative Ways to Get More Twitter Followers – http://twittertoolsbook.com/how-to-get-more-twitter-followers/”

Doing this causes your retweet to show up in their mention stream, which is more visible than retweeting in the new one-click style.

37. Unfollow People Who Don’t Follow You

For those who don’t own a Twitter marketing program like TweetAdder there is a free alternative called Manage Flitter that creates a list of all people who don’t follow you and makes it easy for you to unfollow them.

38. Email Your Contacts and Ask Them to Follow You

Send an email to your existing contact list letting them know that you are on twitter, and that they should be following you.

One way to do this is to use an emboldened post-script in any newsletters you might send.

For example: 

P.S. Follow me on Twitter @Garin.

39. Tweet During Peak Times

Tweet during peak twitter traffic times.

Check out this post I wrote about everything you need to know about timing your tweets so you can get your tweets more exposure.

The more exposure your tweets get the more followers you will pick up in the process.

40. Participate in Trending Topics

Trending topics are visible to thousands of people at once.

Participating in a trending topic can give your tweet more exposure than it normally would.

With more exposure your tweets have a better chance of spreading, and this can net you a bunch of new followers in the process.

41. Follow Highly Relevant People

The more relevant the people you follow are, the better the chance is that they will follow you back.

TweetAdder can help with this by allowing you to target people to follow based on the keywords they use in their bio, or in their tweets.

The best way to ensure you are building relevant connections is to check out people for yourself.

42. Engage with Twitter Giants

If you can engage Twitter Giants, you can potentially get a large amount of exposure if they respond to you.

Your chances of getting the attention of a Twitter Giant grows as your following grows.  Be persistent.  Get them on lists and tweet their original content.  Mention them for #FollowFriday.

I engage with Twitter Giants on a regular basis and I’m sure that if you keep trying you can do the same.

43. Use a Tweet Button in Your Blog Posts

Sites with twitter share buttons installed get seven times the twitter mentions as websites without them.

Twitter recently launched the official tweet button, and I recommend you use it.

If you install this button into your pages or posts manually you can also choose to have the button recommend people to follow after a  tweet is sent.

If you are running a self-hosted WordPress blog the best plugin for integrating a tweet button and other social buttons is Digg Digg.

Digg Digg is the plugin that installed the social sharing buttons that follow you as you scroll down this page.

44. Do a Charity Promotion

Drew Carey (@Drewfromtv) is paying $1 for every follower he gets, up until 1,000,000 followers.

This strategy has netted him over 600,000 followers already, and plenty of publicity.

45. Create a Great Looking Twitter Background

Most people still use the web based version of Twitter, which means they will see your background when surfing to your profile.

If you take the time to create a custom Twitter background people will notice and you will get more follows as a result.

Check out the tool Themelon for millions of color combinations.

46. Pick a Short and Memorable Twitter User Name

The shorter your username the better.

Many people still use the classic style retweets, so having a shorter username means that more people will be able to retweet your tweets.

47. Tweet Often

When I met @unmarketing he told me the month he became really big on Twitter he tweeted about 10,000 times.

By tweeting all the time you might piss a bunch of people off, but the ones who don’t unfollow you will be much more familiar with you, and will be more likely to retweet you.

How effective this strategy is depends entirely on what you tweet about, of course.

The more you tweet, the better chance you have of your tweets being seen by people who do not follow you yet.

The more recent your tweets are, the more relevant it will seem for someone to follow you.

48. Run a Contest

Running a successful Twitter contest is a great way to attract new followers. Offer a good prize and make sure you clearly communicate the rules of entry. If your prize is related to your brand then it can also help find targeted followers who are interested in your area of expertise.

Be creative! Try giving away an experience, a vacation, a meeting with a celebrity. Contests draw attention! Offer multiple prizes, including a grand prize, 3-5 mid-level prizes, and as many small prizes as you feel like.

Set a hashtag for your contest like#mycontestisawesome or #winmystuff, and include it in every tweet about your contest.

Launch your contest through Twitter and any other mediums you are using. Blogs are great at driving contest traffic, because they can explain the prizes and rules in greater detail.

You can use the conest as an inbound marketing vehicle for your website and award prizes based on  who drives the most traffic back to the contest page, thus helping it spread virally!  Get contest entrants to use bit.ly links which have built in analytics so that you can track who sends the most traffic.

49. Use Twitter in Your Blog Comments

When replying to posts on other people’s blogs, leave your Twitter name in your reply.

If you are commenting on a disqus comment system (like the one in this post) you can click a twitter icon and share your comment on Twitter.

50. Interact

This is something many new users miss on Twitter. Twitter is not simply a medium to broadcast like television or radio, although some people do drop the ball and use it this way.  Twitter is meant for both broadcasting AND interaction.

Answer back to people who tweet you. People who talk to you will be much more likely to follow you.

Whenever someone tweets or retweets me I check to make sure I am following them, and I imagine that many other people check this out as well.

51. Install a Twitter Follow Button

The official Twitter follow button makes it easy for people to follow you directly from your site.

Installing a Twitter button is really easy, it just takes copying and pasting the code, and inserting your username.  I have two twitter follow buttons installed into the sidebar of this blog, feel free to use them if you want to see how they work.

52. Add Yourself to Twitter Directories

There are directories like Twellow, wefollow, and several others where you can add your Twitter profile and get more followers.

Wefollow is an especially helpful Twitter directory because it is the largest directory on the web.

There are dozens of directories of Twitter users online, including Twiends, WeFollow, and Twellow, and more.

Add yourself to as many directories as you can find under the proper categories, and you will begin to see some users following you from these sites.

When someone follows you through one of these directories you will receive a notification email from Twitter – if you have these turned on. In these notifications you can see which directory they followed you through.

If you’re using Twitter Marketing software like TweetAdder you’ll want to turn these notifications off because it gets annoying with a few hundred daily emails from Twitter.

53. Write Articles and Place your Twitter Name in the Signature Box

Write articles on your topic of interest and place your Twitter name in the resource box. Submit these articles to places like EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com.

54. Install a Twitter Widget into Your Website

Did you know that you can add a Twitter widget on LinkedIn that will display your recent tweets? There are many places online that will allow you to display a list of your latest tweets, and these widgets are a great source of new followers!

You can get an official custom Twitter widget that works on any site where you can add custom code!

I use publitweet widgets to embed my Twitter stream into my blogs, since these are more powerful than official Twitter widgets and import not only my tweets, but also a preview of the content that was shared if a link was tweeted.  See the image to the right for an idea of what these look like, although the design is custom.

55. Link it Up

The more links you have to your twitter profile the more ways there are for people to follow you!

This means online and offline, put a link to your Twitter profile everywhere you can.

Link to Twitter from Facebook, from your blog, from your guest posts, from your videos, in your email signature, and anywhere else you can think of.

Usually if you just put an “@” sign in front of your username people will understand that you are listing your Twitter name.

56. Write a Guest Post

Even if you don’t have a blog of your own, you can easily gain notoriety and followers by writing posts for other blogs.

Running a blog is hard work, and most people and companies welcome well written posts to give them a break.

If you do score an opportunity to guest post, link to your blog if you like, but be sure to link to your Twitter account as well.

Want to learn more about guest posting? Check out these ten great guest posting tips.

If you are interested in writing a post for this blog contact us and let us know your idea for a post!

57. Be Funny

Laughter is the best medicine. Funny and witty tweets retweet very well.

Just check out favstar for some of the funniest tweets.

@Badbanana and @shitmydadsays are always good for a laugh.

58. Sign up for my free 7 day eCourse

Enroll in my free 7 day twitter eCourse and you will receive awesome twitter tips and tricks by email that will enable you build a powerful twitter presence that will help you get many more followers.

59. Advertise Vacancies

If your company of business is doing well, you can use your twitter account to advertise any vacancies that you may have.

If twitter users realize that they may benefit from such opportunities, it is more likely that they will follow you in order to look out for your feed.

Share opportunities with your followers and they will retweet and recommend you and this will lead to more followers.

60. Do Podcasts

Podcasting is a great way to get attention, it showcases your expertise, and helps build an audience.

Creating your own podcast is simple. All you have to do is download a program such as Audacity (or, if you’re on a Mac, GarageBand works well.)

Record your audio, edit out long pauses or background noise, and make sure to mention that people should follow you on Twitter!

61. Host a Webinar

Webinars are online seminars, and can be a powerful way to build your brand and your Twitter following.

A Webinar is a perfect medium to get more Twitter followers fast, since you can link directly to your Twitter account during and after the webinar for attendees.

You can begin by creating a template for your slideshow that includes your Twitter information in the bottom right hand corner. Many attendees will automatically look in that corner of the presentation last, while listening to your information.

Encourage Twitter users to follow you throughout the presentation, and talk about the benefits of the content you share on Twitter.

If you plan on hosting a Q&A session ask people to follow you on Twitter and tweet their questions. Not only will this get you immediate followers from the participants, but their followers will see the questions being posed to you as well, and this can lead to more followers.

The software I use to host my webinars is called anymeeting and it is free to use for up to 200 attendees.

62. Do customer support through Twitter

Now, we’re not suggesting you throw away your helpdesk, but add Twitter as a support channel. You may find that users are already tweeting questions at you. Most good helpdesk software already offers Twitter integration.

Some people like posting support questions via Twitter, as they feel the public nature of it will lead to a faster response. Some prefer using private channels and may not use Twitter, but adding it will win you some new followers providing you offer good timely support through it.

63. Integrate Twitter with Your Videos

People love to watch videos. Creating video tutorials for your area of expertise is a great way to get exposure for yourself, and your Twitter presence.

Place your Twitter username in various places in the video, and you can even use a watermark or video annotation so that your twitter username is constantly visible.

If you have a YouTube channel make sure to include a link to your twitter profile on your channel page.

Offline Strategies for Getting More Twitter Followers

64. Rent a Billboard

If you are really ambitious, rent a billboard and put your Twitter name on it.  This is what Ashton Kutcher did when he was racing against CNN to be the first to 1,000,000 followers.

This strategy worked for Ashton and I’m sure it could work for you too if you have a few thousand dollars to cover the cost.

65. Word of Mouth

Tell your friends and relatives to follow you on Twitter.

Bring Twitter up in person when you are chatting with people.  If the people you are talking to active on Twitter convince them to follow you, or if they are not on Twitter convince them to join.

66. Speak at Conferences

While most people already know that speaking at conferences is great for business, many people forget to promote their social media accounts through this platform.

The next time you’re giving a presentation at a seminar or conference remember to mention your Twitter account!

Create a presentation #Hashtag and encourage attendees to tweet about your talk for best results.

If you are using presentation software or an on-screen image during your speech, display your username on screen.

If your audience likes what you have to say, they may just follow you later! You can even host the conference yourself, including your Twitter information on conference tickets and tweet the events as they happen. When it comes to live events, the sky is the limit!

67. Put Your Twitter Name on Your Business Card

Twitter promotion does not have to be limited to the online world.  Include your Twitter name right on your business card you will be able to get several new followers.

Don’t have your Twitter username on your business cards yet?  You’re in luck Vista Print is currently giving away 250 business cards for free.

68. Host a Tweetup

Most of the time, offline strategies involve people finding you offline and connecting with you online afterwards.

Tweetups allow you the opportunity to connect with Twitter users in person, even if you have never met before.

Because the group of Twitter users that meet is often diverse you will likely gain at least a few new followers from a tweetup.

You can start a tweetup simply by asking around your circle of twitter followers. Offer to host the event at a coffee shop, restaurant, or even your office.

Create a dedicated web page or blog post for the event, a hashtag (for example, #mytweetup) so that users can follow the event, and encourage tweeters to share with their friends and followers as well.

You can gain large amounts of exposure from something this simple!

69. Do a Radio Interview

Much like speaking at conferences, radio interviews are a great way to get attention.

Whether through AM/FM, satellite, or Blog Talk Radio, the interviews can be used to gain some positive and wildly popular PR.

To be interviewed on the radio you need to position yourself as an expert. Watch your local stations for requests (they often publish them via social media,) list yourself in expert directories, and even contact the station directly and ask if they have any upcoming opportunities for experts.

While you won’t have a visual medium to display your Twitter account, repeating your Twitter username a few times during your interview can help you gain new followers. You can also use your interview time to promote contests and upcoming events through your Twitter feed, which is sure to get you some new followers in no time at all!

70. Newspaper Interviews and Articles

If you can somehow tie your business or industry to a current event, it can be easy to get an article in the traditional press that includes your information. You can distribute your own article via press release, or make yourself available for expert interviews through directories and by approaching the media directly.

If you have the resources, hiring a public relations firm can be a great help with this. They can get you expert interviews in many newspapers and national publications, and because of their existing relationship with the editor, you will often be allowed to include a bit more company information than the average submission.

If you don’t have the resources (or just prefer DIY methods), write a compelling press release that ties your business to a current event. Distribute it to the local media, and call to follow up. Create a media kit or press kit for distribution when someone asks for information about you and your business. Getting interviews in traditional press isn’t difficult for a small business owner, but it does take an investment of time and some persistence.

When you do gain some media exposure, while most companies are just now beginning to include links to their website in the article, you can include links to social media accounts like Twitter to get new followers and exposure for your expertise.

71. Attend Networking Events

If you run a business, you likely have a local networking event that you do or can attend.

Publicizing your Twitter profile at events like these through your business cards, stickers, and stamps can gain you a large number of targeted Twitter followers very quickly!

Be sure to offer an incentive for following you, such as free reports, discounts, or updates.

72. Give Away a Free eBook

Few things say “I’m an expert” like being an author.

While print titles still have more clout with traditional audiences, eBooks like those for Kindle and other e-readers are gaining popularity.

If you’re looking to establish yourself as an expert, traditional publishing houses may get you the most notoriety, but self-publishing with a good public relations agent can get you similar results today.

Being sure to include your social media links – including Twitter – is a great way to allow readers to connect with your expertise after reading your book. Start by offering your Twitter ID on the inside front cover, where many bookstore shoppers will look for your bio; then include your information on the back cover, in the introduction, and throughout the book.

If you are willing to think outside of the box, you can even include your Twitter ID in the footer of every page. Even if they don’t follow you immediately after reading the book, they will subconsciously recognize your account in the future and be more willing to follow you if they come across your name again.

Several prominent social media celebrities even use Twitter to launch subsequent titles, so don’t overlook the possibilities here. The opportunities are endless!

73. Research and Publish a Report

Reports and white papers are still an essential form of communication for industries and markets around the globe. If you have any data or research to share, or even just helpful ideas, publishing a report or whitepaper can successfully get you the attention of industry leaders, media, and yes – social media.

You can get your white papers and reports distributed by trade magazine distributors across North America, which will often give you the customers’ information. Offer the report or whitepaper on your own website, as well as on Twitter itself. You may find that the link to your report gets retweeted, getting you valuable exposure!

As with other forms of offline publishing, be sure to utilize your author’s bio and include links to Twitter and other profiles.

74. Magazine Articles

Like newspaper articles, magazine articles can get you great attention from readers and potential customers. Unlike newspapers, however, they can be much longer in length, explain things in much more depth, and offer more opportunities for promotion.

Go to the website for your favorite industry magazine and look for a link to their publishing schedule. There, magazines will list topics that they are going to be covering in the coming months. If you feel you can contribute to one of these topics, contact the editor with a proposal for your article. Do not send the whole article! Editors need a quick glance to determine if your content will be worthy, before approving you to begin work.

The great thing about working with magazines is that in certain circumstances, you can even get paid for your submission. How many opportunities do you have that allow your advertising to pay you? Magazine editors will typically allow for a longer author’s bio, offer more opportunities for promotion, and may even extend offers for inexpensive advertising in exchange for your contribution.

75. Use a Quick Response (QR) Code

There are several services online that allow you to create quick response or QR codes. These codes are simple square barcodes that are gaining massive popularity with smartphone users, as they can be used to direct any phone to a specific web address just by taking a picture.

Create a QR code that links to your Twitter profile, and put it up everywhere – on your website, on your business cards, on any signage outside of your office or store, or anywhere else you can think of that might attract enough attention to be worth a snapshot.

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Do you have any tips for getting more followers?  Share your tips and/or your username in the comments below!

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Twitter networking success guide

Jesse Killspatrick

Jesse Killspatrick

HOW TO: Network for Maximum Success on Twitter with Twitter Marketing Software

I have used hundreds of Twitter Tools and TweetAdder is by far the most powerful marketing software I have encountered!

For that reason I have developed this guide to explain how different features make TweetAdder powerful, and how to use these powerful features for the maximum effect.

If you want to see a video that explains some of the core network building features of TweetAdder check out my TweetAdder video review.

For a comprehensive look at the most powerful features of this marketing software then give this guide a read.

Overview Screen

The overview screen allows you to monitor the status and activities of all of your account from one convenient table.

You can turn each account on or off by clicking on the account, and selecting the on/off button.  This is especially useful if you wish to pause updates to an account, or if you are managing an account from a different computer.

The user icons on the far left show which accounts are logged in, and which ones are logged off or turned off.

To open a user to manage, you can either double click on the row, or select a row and click the “Open User” button.

TweetAdder Functions

The TweetAdder sidebar is broken down into six components, five are shown to the left because they are the only five that really matter.

Search Users to Follow is the menu where you can find users to follow based on several different criteria.

As you use the different features for searching for users within this menu you build out a “To Follow List” which you can then get TweetAdder to slowly crawl through and follow the users that are on it.

The most powerful methods for finding users to connect with are listed below in order of most powerful to least.

No matter which method of connection building you use try to manually screen the people you follow if possible so that you can pull out people who are inactive, or irrelevant to you.

Profile Data Search

This a very useful tool for finding more targeted followers.  I build most of my connections via Profile Data searches because I can narrow my search to people who have interests that are relevant enough to them that they list these keywords in their bio.

Following Everyone Followed by or Following of a User

This is a really cool feature that adds all the followers of a particular user to your ‘To Follow’ list. You go and find a competitor in your niche and start following their followers in the hopes that they’ll follow you back.

A powerful way to use this feature is to use people who are similar to you, but very selective about who they follow.  If you follow these people as well you initiate connections with people who are probably active (millions of Twitter users are inactive) and have a high likelihood of being influential.

Tweet Search

This a very useful tool for searching through all of the tweets containing your search term and location (optional).

What people tweet and what they’re actually interested in can be a little bit different, so keep that in mind when using this feature.

Twitter tries to put a stop to this sort of thing and will now only produce 20 results at a time, so if you want to use this efficiently you will need to turn automation on let TweetAdder work its in the background.

Following Everyone on a Twitter List

Tweetadder makes it easy to follow everyone on a Twitter list.  Just enter the username and the list name.

Following Twitter Users

After you’ve found people you want to follow and added them to your To Follow list, you then have the option to follow people as and when you please, or you can turn on the the automation and the program will automatically follow people for you.

Then all you have to do is to turn on the automation and leave it running on your computer and your job is done.

This sort of automation is not allowed by Twitter so Tweet Adder sets delays between each follow so that Twitter can’t detect the automation.

You also have the option to limit the amount of users you follow each day and this is especially important when you get to 2000 followers as Twitter starts to put a stop to excessive following that’s often used in Twitter marketing. Until you get to 2,000 followers Twitter will stop you from following more that 2k people, so at this point manual network building with tools like Manage Twitter will help to speed things along.

Once you break through the 2k threshold Twitter caps the number of people you can follow in a day at 1,000 people.

Unfollowing Twitter Users

I don’t use this feature of TweetAdder, although it is a smart option for anyone who wants to automate Twitter connection building.

I prefer to invest some time every day and use the Twitter Tool Manage Twitter because it offers more options for sorting those people who are not following me so that I can unfollow the most inactive people first.

Here is what the unfollow Twitter users screen looks like:

Thank You Messages

Using this function allows you to automatically interact with your followers as soon as they follow you back, and this can be a powerful way to get onto the radar of new people in your network.

Many people abuse this feature, and for that reason I rarely check my dms.  I recommend that you avoid their mistakes and don’t start off on the wrong foot by sending a shameless self-promoting message and link.

The right way to use this feature is by sending a message that introduces yourself and thanks them for connecting.

RSS Feed

Although I don’t use this feature because I like to tweet everything manually I recognize its power for automating a stream of tweets to an account that you want to manage automatically.

If you are pressed for time to Tweet this tool could be a serious time saver.

Video Demo

I have also developed a video review of TweetAdder that you might find useful.

You need to download and use TweetAdder to really appreciate it.  Luckily, you can download TweetAdder and test drive it for free.

Then, if you are interested in purchasing TweetAdder, and you buy it through my link:

http://growyourtwitternetwork.besaba.com/go/tweetadder

I will send you a Twitter Tools Book Gold Edition bonus package, worth $198!

This package includes:

A copy of The Twitter Tools Book (140 pages)

A copy of The Twitter Tools Audio Book (17 .Mp3′s)

A copy of The Twitter Follower Formula (.pdf Report)

A copy of The Twitter Tools for Business (.pdf Report)

A copy of How to: Make Money with Twitter (.pdf Report)

Lifetime access to The Twitter Tools Book Membership site

Conculsion

As you can undoubtedly tell by this guide TweetAdder is a very powerful network building tool that you should start using asap to build your online brand.

Let me know what you think of TweetAdder and this guide in the comments below!

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Twitter networking success guide

Jesse Killspatrick

Jesse Killspatrick

HOW TO: Network for Maximum Success on Twitter with Twitter Marketing Software

I have used hundreds of Twitter Tools and TweetAdder is by far the most powerful marketing software I have encountered!

For that reason I have developed this guide to explain how different features make TweetAdder powerful, and how to use these powerful features for the maximum effect.

If you want to see a video that explains some of the core network building features of TweetAdder check out my TweetAdder video review.

For a comprehensive look at the most powerful features of this marketing software then give this guide a read.

Overview Screen

The overview screen allows you to monitor the status and activities of all of your account from one convenient table.

You can turn each account on or off by clicking on the account, and selecting the on/off button.  This is especially useful if you wish to pause updates to an account, or if you are managing an account from a different computer.

The user icons on the far left show which accounts are logged in, and which ones are logged off or turned off.

To open a user to manage, you can either double click on the row, or select a row and click the “Open User” button.

TweetAdder Functions

The TweetAdder sidebar is broken down into six components, five are shown to the left because they are the only five that really matter.

Search Users to Follow is the menu where you can find users to follow based on several different criteria.

As you use the different features for searching for users within this menu you build out a “To Follow List” which you can then get TweetAdder to slowly crawl through and follow the users that are on it.

The most powerful methods for finding users to connect with are listed below in order of most powerful to least.

No matter which method of connection building you use try to manually screen the people you follow if possible so that you can pull out people who are inactive, or irrelevant to you.

Profile Data Search

This a very useful tool for finding more targeted followers.  I build most of my connections via Profile Data searches because I can narrow my search to people who have interests that are relevant enough to them that they list these keywords in their bio.

Following Everyone Followed by or Following of a User

This is a really cool feature that adds all the followers of a particular user to your ‘To Follow’ list. You go and find a competitor in your niche and start following their followers in the hopes that they’ll follow you back.

A powerful way to use this feature is to use people who are similar to you, but very selective about who they follow.  If you follow these people as well you initiate connections with people who are probably active (millions of Twitter users are inactive) and have a high likelihood of being influential.

Tweet Search

This a very useful tool for searching through all of the tweets containing your search term and location (optional).

What people tweet and what they’re actually interested in can be a little bit different, so keep that in mind when using this feature.

Twitter tries to put a stop to this sort of thing and will now only produce 20 results at a time, so if you want to use this efficiently you will need to turn automation on let TweetAdder work its in the background.

Following Everyone on a Twitter List

Tweetadder makes it easy to follow everyone on a Twitter list.  Just enter the username and the list name.

Following Twitter Users

After you’ve found people you want to follow and added them to your To Follow list, you then have the option to follow people as and when you please, or you can turn on the the automation and the program will automatically follow people for you.

Then all you have to do is to turn on the automation and leave it running on your computer and your job is done.

This sort of automation is not allowed by Twitter so Tweet Adder sets delays between each follow so that Twitter can’t detect the automation.

You also have the option to limit the amount of users you follow each day and this is especially important when you get to 2000 followers as Twitter starts to put a stop to excessive following that’s often used in Twitter marketing. Until you get to 2,000 followers Twitter will stop you from following more that 2k people, so at this point manual network building with tools like Manage Twitter will help to speed things along.

Once you break through the 2k threshold Twitter caps the number of people you can follow in a day at 1,000 people.

Unfollowing Twitter Users

I don’t use this feature of TweetAdder, although it is a smart option for anyone who wants to automate Twitter connection building.

I prefer to invest some time every day and use the Twitter Tool Manage Twitter because it offers more options for sorting those people who are not following me so that I can unfollow the most inactive people first.

Here is what the unfollow Twitter users screen looks like:

Thank You Messages

Using this function allows you to automatically interact with your followers as soon as they follow you back, and this can be a powerful way to get onto the radar of new people in your network.

Many people abuse this feature, and for that reason I rarely check my dms.  I recommend that you avoid their mistakes and don’t start off on the wrong foot by sending a shameless self-promoting message and link.

The right way to use this feature is by sending a message that introduces yourself and thanks them for connecting.

RSS Feed

Although I don’t use this feature because I like to tweet everything manually I recognize its power for automating a stream of tweets to an account that you want to manage automatically.

If you are pressed for time to Tweet this tool could be a serious time saver.

Video Demo

I have also developed a video review of TweetAdder that you might find useful.

You need to download and use TweetAdder to really appreciate it.  Luckily, you can download TweetAdder and test drive it for free.

Then, if you are interested in purchasing TweetAdder, and you buy it through my link:

http://growyourtwitternetwork.besaba.com/go/tweetadder

I will send you a Twitter Tools Book Gold Edition bonus package, worth $198!

This package includes:

A copy of The Twitter Tools Book (140 pages)

A copy of The Twitter Tools Audio Book (17 .Mp3′s)

A copy of The Twitter Follower Formula (.pdf Report)

A copy of The Twitter Tools for Business (.pdf Report)

A copy of How to: Make Money with Twitter (.pdf Report)

Lifetime access to The Twitter Tools Book Membership site

Conculsion

As you can undoubtedly tell by this guide TweetAdder is a very powerful network building tool that you should start using asap to build your online brand.

Let me know what you think of TweetAdder and this guide in the comments below!

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20 Magnificent Twitter Tips for Musicians

Jesse Killspatrick

Jesse Killspatrick

Music exists to speak the words we can’t express. This is a quote I got from one of my phone applications and it clearly expresses what music is all about.  Music makes the world a better place and the Twitter tips in this article help musicians get their music out into the world.

Through pain, sorrow, happiness and joy, music soothes the heart and comforts the soul.

There are a lot of musicians out there ready to face the world. If you are an aspiring musician, let the world hear your music with Twitter.

Here are some Twitter tips for musicians.

1. What is Your Music About?

Be specific and detailed with who you are and what your music is all about. Give a detailed description in your profile about your kind of music.

Always include a website or a video link of your music where your followers can visit.

2. Build Your Audience

Do not limit your audience to just your followers. Expand and create your own fan base.

Get to know these people and be interactive. Followers tend to delete you if they feel there is no response from you.

Check out these 50 tips for getting more followers and the service Grow My Twitter Network.

For first time musicians, a great way to create or expand your fan base it so follow people and artists who share the same interests as you.

3. Do Some Searching

Search for people who are into music, specifically those who have interests in your genre or kind of music.

You can start by doing it locally. Connect with other local artists and check their tweets to see if there are any gigs in your area that you can get involved with.

Once you get yourself famed by the locals, it will be easy to promote your music nationally, even worldwide.

Use advanced search for your Twitter search or use a third party Twitter marketing tool like TweetAdder to find other artists on Twitter in your area.

4. Share Your Music

Tweet your YouTube videos, your MySpace links or go live on UStream.

Any of these ways let people listen to your music and the more people who listen to your music the better your chances are of going mainstream.

5. Collaborate with Other Artists and Bands

This is a great way to expand your network.

Look for popular artists in your genre.

Don’t just follow them. Reach out and engage with them.

6. Be Personal

Yes you are a musician and you like to talk about music all the time. But isn’t it better to be more interactive?

Tweet about your favorite tracks or what you are doing, even if it’s just jamming out.

This would give people a glimpse of your normal life so that they can connect with you on a personal level.

Have fun with your Tweets!

7. Use #Hashtags

Hashtags are very helpful in promoting your music. Its functionality will help people find you easily.

Put a hashtag on specific keywords so as not to confuse your followers.

Not sure how to use #Hashtags? Check out our post on how to get the most out of Twitter #Hashtags.

8. Share Photos

Actions speak louder than words, so to speak. People are not contented to just see you or your band in Google.

It makes you more engaging if you post your own pictures on Tweeter. Do not just limit to pictures of you in concert or doing a recording.

Post pictures of your family or your friends.  A picture really is worth a thousand words.

9. Get Your Fans to Promote You

Your audience or fan base is important in determining your success or failure.

Don’t just be a broadcasting beacon, engage and communicate with your followers.

The most followed user on Twitter is currently Justin Bieber and a big part of this reason is because he keeps it real and replies to and RT’s his fans.

When you become personal with your followers, they will be able to promote you and your music.

This is similar to the power of “word of mouth” marketing that comes from great customer service.

By engaging with your audience, your followers will help you fast-track your popularity and your music.

10. Have a Twitter Contest

Contests are always fun. Create a Twitter contest for your fan base. Do a photo contest or guessing game of your song lyrics.

Whatever it is, you will be amazed on how people will participate. Having a Twitter contest also gives out a good impression to your followers.

11. Take Time to Retweet (RT)

Follow your favorite artists or bands and retweet them. You can also retweet interesting updates and statements from your followers.

They will be really flattered to know that you are reading their tweets.

12. Seek Opinions

People like to speak their mind. Ask opinions from fellow artists and other followers.

This will help you determine your strengths and weaknesses as a musician and get better at what you do.

13. Promote Your Shows and Gigs

Twitter is the best way to communicate with lots of people. Whenever you have concerts or gigs, be sure to keep your followers informed.

Unless it is a free concert, be sure to provide them important details like where to buy tickets and how much they cost.

Don’t forget to give the exact time and date.

14. Interlink Your Social Media Profiles

Link your Twitter account from your other social media like Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Many of your Twitter followers have accounts with other social media as well. This will enable you to widen your network and fan base as well as gaining more followers.

As a musician, you can use Twitter tools to help you promote your music through the social media.

15. Do a Free Live Online Show

You can use free live streaming software to do a live show.

I have even seen musicians charge for a live show, but you will need a sizable audience before you do this.

Grow your audience now with free music and free online shows and it will pay off later when your followers become true fans who buy your music and come to your shows.

Twitter Tools for Musicians

Here are the five Twitter tools for musicians you can use to get your music out there in the Twitterverse:

16. Song.ly

Song.ly will enable your followers to listen to your song without downloading.

Just add a plug-in to Firefox or Internet Explorer. It can be a bit inconvenient to use this tool since you have to update your Firefox or Internet Explorer before you can use this.

17. Blip.fm

Blip.fm helps you create your own music station.

If you want to become a DJ, this will help you begin your goal. You can create your own playlist and share it with your followers.

You can also check on other DJs’ playlist and blip them.

18. Tinysong.com

Tinysong.com will help you share music links with you followers.

This twitter tool is very easy to use; simply type in your favorite song and share it to Twitter.

19. Twitmusic.com

Similar to TwitPic, This tool will let you upload your music for your followers to listen to.

You can also invite other artists on Twitter to your TwitMusic.

20. Twt.fm

Twt.fm helps you upload and share your music. All you need to do is sign up using your email address.

Feedback

Remember these helpful Twitter tips for musicians and get your music heard.

Are you a musician on Twitter? If so let us know your username and how you promote yourself on Twitter below!

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100 Top Worldwide Twitter Lists

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Recently the Twitter lists directory Listorious shut down to become the new service Muck Rack.

This has left a void in the Twitter Tools ecosystem for finding quality lists of influential and connected people on Twitter.

The twitter lists tool void is now filled by PeerReach and their Top 100 Worldwide Lists (PeerGroups.)

PeerReach is a free Twitter Tool that you can use to powerfully analyze and extend your Twitter audience in meaningful way.

How PeerReach Works

After logging into PeerReach with your Twitter account (30 second wait) you will immediately be shown the lists that your account is a member of.

Scrolling down your PeerReach profile page reveals four other network analysis tools that deal with:

Followers (People with similar interests)

Your Audience comparison (Compare audiences between people)

Audience Insights (Audience growth over the course of time)

Your Interests

In addition to profile analysis PeerReach also features an awesome new Twitter Lists directory.

Top 100 Worldwide Twitter Lists

On PeerReach users can browse through the Top 100 Worldwide Twitter lists or select one of the following nine regions:

Australia  

Brazil  

Canada  

Germany  

Spain

France  

Mexico

Netherlands  

United Kingdom

Lists Topics Include:

Arts

Blogger

Fashion

Film

Journalists

Marketing

Music

Politics

Science

The above listed are the featured PeerGroups, there are also 26 other PeerGroup topics at the bottom of the PeerGroups overview page.

Twitter Lists Power Tool: PeerGroups

One Click Twitter Lists

PeerGroups is the name that PeerReach has given to their awesome new Twitter lists tool.

These PeerGroups take advantage of the fact that Twitter recently expanded the number of lists that a user can follow from 20 to 2,000.

The powerful feature of new PeerGroups lists are the fact that they can be duplicated as an official Twitter list on your Twitter account with just one click.

In the PeerGroups list image below I have highlighted the button that will create the PeerGroups list as a Twitter list on your account.

Although the click takes only a second, creating the list may take several minutes depending on the availability of the Twitter API.

I used this feature to give me the foundation for a new Marketing Top 250 Twitter list that I will be using to stay on top of the latest marketing news.  I am following the marketing niche more closely these days as I recently launched the new marketing blog Marketing Strategy HQ.

The Twitter audience comparison feature of PeerReach is another cool feature.

Twitter Audience Comparison Tool from PeerReach

This Twitter Analytics tool can easily compare the areas of influence for several different Twitter accounts at once.

Another great feature of PeerReach is their new collection of Top 100 Worldwide Twitter Lists.

PeerReach Google Chrome Extension

PeerReach also has a Google Chrome extension that shows the top rank of the main topic associated with the profile you are viewing.

Below is a snap shot of this feature from the Marketing Top 250 Twitter list I created with help from PeerReach.

Conclusion

With over 400 million active Twitter accounts the relevance of the people you follow is more important than ever.

PeerReach does a great job helping to cut through the noise on Twitter so you can pay attention to the conversation and content that matters most to you.

Feedback

Leave a comment below and let me know what you think of PeerReach and their new “One Click” Twitter lists creation tool.

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15 of the Best Twitter Directories for Growing Your Network

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Twitter directories are great places to search and find new Twitter users to follow based on your own interests.  Not only are twitter directories great for finding new people to connect with, they are also great promotion tools that you can use to build targeted awareness for your Twitter brand.

In this post I list the best Twitter directories where you can search people with similar interests and submit your Twitter profile to get listed and get more Twitter followers.

This post has recently been updated and contains the best twitter directories for building your twitter brand in 2013.

Twitter Directories

The 15 twitter directories listed below are in no particular order, and each features a brief description of what to expect if you click through to each link.

1. Connect.me

Connect.me is a people discovery tool that allows you to expand your network and deepen the relationships within your existing network by “vouching” for other people on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin.

2. First Issue (Book Trade People)

First Issue is a directory of hundreds book publishers and others in the book trade who are using Twitter.

3. Just Tweet It

Just Tweet It is a directory of Twitter users sorted by categories. Good way to find new people to follow or list your name to let people find you.

4. Legal Birds

Legal Birds is a list of legal professionals on Twitter such as lawyers, law librarians and academics.

5. Twitaholic

Twitaholic is a Twitter directory that sorts all users by the amount of followers they have.

Want more Twitter followers? Check out this epic article to discover 50 ways to get more followers.

6. Loaded Web (Local Twitter Directory)

Loaded Web is a Local Twitter directory

7. Local Tweeps

Local Tweeps is a local Twitter directory for the US, Canada, and the UK.

8. Tweet Find

TweetFind is a free Twitter yellow and white pages directory.  Created to help people find new twitters to follow and a place where people can add their own Twitter accounts to a Twitter directory for free.

9. Twellow

Twellow is the Twitter yellow pages. Browse through Twitter users to follow them or list yourself to get more followers.

As you can tell from the graphic below this directory features millions of profiles so it is a great place to list your twitter brand so you can gain extra exposure.

10. TweetSocial

TweetSocial is a Twitter Directory that does not get a ton of traffic but is still worth adding your profile to if you want to use every avenue to build your following.

11. TwitterPacks

TwitterPacks. A site where the community recommends fellow Twitter users by topic of interest or geographical area.

12. Twollow

Twollow is a keyword based platform for finding and building a Twitter market.

13. WeFollow

WeFollow is a user powered Twitter directory. It displays and categorizes Twitter users according to tags and lists users based on the number of followers they have.

14. Twibs

Twibs the place to find businesses on Twitter.

15. Twibes

Twibes is a collection of Twitter Groups that you can add yourself to.

Bonus Twitter Directory: TwopCharts

TwopCharts is a Twitter Directory that gets an honorable mention because although it does not enable you to add yourself it does undertake the task of organizing Twitter users by language and city.

This tool is useful for discovering and connecting with Influencers in your city. Directories like Twopcharts are why it is important to get your numbers up if you want to gain visibility in your city.

Conclusion

Add yourself to these Twitter directories and over time you will enjoy a gain in followers as others follow after you and do the same.

Want More Followers?

Check out the powerful service Grow my Twitter Network and my article about how to get more Twitter followers fast!

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Timing Your Tweets

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By: @Garin Kilpatrick

Leveraging timing on Twitter is a great way to increase your reach and get more traffic from Twitter to your website.

By strategically timing your tweets you will be able to get more retweets and more Twitter followers.

To schedule your tweets I recommend using Hootsuite (free for up to 5 social media accounts) for complete control over when your content goes out.

Another Twitter tool called buffer is a great way to space your tweets out automatically, without having to specify a specific time every time you tweet.

Buffer co-founder Leo recently published the findings of some very interesting data they derived from their users:

“People that start to Buffer their Tweets increased clicks on links they posted by 200% within 2 weeks of using. The amount of retweets doubles on average. Finally Buffer users increase their follower count by 104 followers within 3 weeks on average.” – the study concluded.

The Twitter management and analysis tool SocialBro can examine the activity of your 5,000 top followers to determine the best time for you to tweet.  To access this feature click the “Best time to tweet” button from your dashboard.

Below is an example of the type of heat map report SocialBro can generate.  A neat feature of this report is that it can be exported as a .PDF as well.

The only downside to this report is that it can take several minutes to create, but this might just be due to the fact that it had to analyze over 400,000 followers for my account.

Once your report is ready you will get an email notification which will bring you to the following heat map:

The SocialBro report also has four other graphs visualizing the best times for you to tweet in different ways.

More Strategies for Timing Your Tweets

For those who have networks larger than 5,000 followers it is also helpful to consider some more general Twitter timing trends as well.

Social Media scientist Dan Zarrella analyzed a large sample of accounts and drew some conclusions about timing and Twitter.  Kiss Metrics visualized data from his study about twitter timing into the infographic below:

Another important thing to take into consideration is the time zone of your followers.  If you are in North America and following mostly other North Americans you should consider the density of people in different time zones when timing your tweets.

Clearly the Eastern Time zone has the most people living in it so lining up a few tweets near the 5PM EST peak time is a good call.

Twitter is based in San Francisco and many people use Twitter in the PST so if you are in the EST like I am right now it’s a good idea to line up some tweets until 8PM EST so that you hit the 5PM peak time for those living in the Pacific time zone.

Sysomos analyzed 20 million tweets and published some interesting Twitter stats, including the graph below showing that tweeting activity is busier during the week than it is on weekends:

Based on my own experience I have noticed that I get many more retweets during the week, and it seems to me that many people take a break from their regular tweeting routines on the weekends.

The data visualization company lemon.ly came recently designed an infographic with some cool twitter timing stats that might give you some more insight into the art and science of Twitter timing.

The main takeaway from this post is that you can have more influence and achieve more clicks if you space your tweets out so that more people see them and less people unfollow you.

Flooding your followers with a bunch of tweets at once will piss some people off, but tweeting is a good thing so don’t feel like you absolutely must schedule every single tweet you send.

Twitter is based on the question what are you doing? after all, so send live tweets and make your tweets feel real.

Want more cool content like this? Sign up for my free Twitter eCourse and get a Twitter PDF when you do!

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Timing Your Tweets

Jesse Killspatrick

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By: @Garin Kilpatrick

Leveraging timing on Twitter is a great way to increase your reach and get more traffic from Twitter to your website.

By strategically timing your tweets you will be able to get more retweets and more Twitter followers.

To schedule your tweets I recommend using Hootsuite (free for up to 5 social media accounts) for complete control over when your content goes out.

Another Twitter tool called buffer is a great way to space your tweets out automatically, without having to specify a specific time every time you tweet.

Buffer co-founder Leo recently published the findings of some very interesting data they derived from their users:

“People that start to Buffer their Tweets increased clicks on links they posted by 200% within 2 weeks of using. The amount of retweets doubles on average. Finally Buffer users increase their follower count by 104 followers within 3 weeks on average.” – the study concluded.

The Twitter management and analysis tool SocialBro can examine the activity of your 5,000 top followers to determine the best time for you to tweet.  To access this feature click the “Best time to tweet” button from your dashboard.

Below is an example of the type of heat map report SocialBro can generate.  A neat feature of this report is that it can be exported as a .PDF as well.

The only downside to this report is that it can take several minutes to create, but this might just be due to the fact that it had to analyze over 400,000 followers for my account.

Once your report is ready you will get an email notification which will bring you to the following heat map:

The SocialBro report also has four other graphs visualizing the best times for you to tweet in different ways.

More Strategies for Timing Your Tweets

For those who have networks larger than 5,000 followers it is also helpful to consider some more general Twitter timing trends as well.

Social Media scientist Dan Zarrella analyzed a large sample of accounts and drew some conclusions about timing and Twitter.  Kiss Metrics visualized data from his study about twitter timing into the infographic below:

Another important thing to take into consideration is the time zone of your followers.  If you are in North America and following mostly other North Americans you should consider the density of people in different time zones when timing your tweets.

Clearly the Eastern Time zone has the most people living in it so lining up a few tweets near the 5PM EST peak time is a good call.

Twitter is based in San Francisco and many people use Twitter in the PST so if you are in the EST like I am right now it’s a good idea to line up some tweets until 8PM EST so that you hit the 5PM peak time for those living in the Pacific time zone.

Sysomos analyzed 20 million tweets and published some interesting Twitter stats, including the graph below showing that tweeting activity is busier during the week than it is on weekends:

Based on my own experience I have noticed that I get many more retweets during the week, and it seems to me that many people take a break from their regular tweeting routines on the weekends.

The data visualization company lemon.ly came recently designed an infographic with some cool twitter timing stats that might give you some more insight into the art and science of Twitter timing.

The main takeaway from this post is that you can have more influence and achieve more clicks if you space your tweets out so that more people see them and less people unfollow you.

Flooding your followers with a bunch of tweets at once will piss some people off, but tweeting is a good thing so don’t feel like you absolutely must schedule every single tweet you send.

Twitter is based on the question what are you doing? after all, so send live tweets and make your tweets feel real.

Want more cool content like this? Sign up for my free Twitter eCourse and get a Twitter PDF when you do!

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4 Ways to Grow a Twitter Following That Matters

Is Twitter working for your business?

Are you looking to grow a larger and more relevant Twitter following?

This article will show you four actionable steps you can take to improve your Twitter experience.

Why Twitter Is Not Just a Numbers Game

Many brands, businesses and marketers have already discovered how powerful Twitter is for finding and engaging their audience.

Its low cost, immediacy and viral nature make it a favorite tool for everyone from news organizations to celebrities to small businesses.

Yet when marketers jump on Twitter for the first time, they wonder why they don’t get an overwhelming response to their initial tweet. Soon they learn that they must develop a following.

They see others with followings of 500, 5,000 or 50,000 and they want some of that. So they start to Google “how to get more followers on Twitter” or falling for tweets like this one:

If it sounds too good to be true…

Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s not too difficult to build a following on Twitter if you’re willing to partake in some shady, bad-karma tactics—from following and unfollowing people to creating hundreds of bogus accounts that follow you and retweet everything you say to buying followers on the black market.

But few if any of those followers will provide you any value for the time you put into Twitter.

So I’m also here to tell you that it’s not how many followers you have, but how many relevant followers you have. Having 20,000 followers who don’t respond to anything you share is equivalent to shouting from the top of the Empire State Building and claiming all of New York City as your audience.

Yes: more engaged followers are better than fewer engaged followers. So, let’s focus on getting more engaged followers.

Building a relevant Twitter following comes down to four core concepts:

Find and follow relevant people.

Tweet content that will be interesting to your target audience.

Engage with your audience.

Promote your Twitter account through other channels.

With that framework in place, here are some tips, tools and tactics to attract relevant followers on Twitter.

#1: Find and Follow Relevant People

Your audience is out there… Now, how to find them?

Start with a strong profile.

Because most people will check out your profile before following you, it’s important to put your house in order and present yourself in the most engaging way possible.

This includes:

Profile photo: Make sure you’re using a photo of your face for your personal account or a logo for your business account. Research has shown that people trust faces more that they’ve seen multiple times, which is why a photo of your smiling face works best.

Detailed bio: You’ve got 160 characters, so get creative! Let people know why they should be following you.

Location: Because so much of business is local these days, make sure you include your location as appropriate. It can be the make or break for follows. 

Strong profiles increase your followers. Blue hair doesn’t hurt.

Discover new people with third-party tools.

One of the first places to start your search for relevant people is at one of the many Twitter directories out there.

In a discussion around Twitter tools in Social Media Examiner’s Small Business Networking Club, everyone seemed to have a favorite tool or tip.

Social media marketer Paul Wylie recommends Twellow (for the clean interface) and WeFollow (for finding influencers). You can search by industry, location or keyword for starters.

WeFollow has many categories. Thus, whether you’re targeting personal trainers or WordPress trainers, you’ll find them here.

Karen James, a social media coach from the UK, likes Tweepi to check out people before she follows them. Karen Black, a digital marketer also from the UK, uses ManageFlitter to do bio searches, as well as keep an eye on her followers.

Use these tools to search for your own industry and the industries of your ideal customers.

Leverage other people’s Twitter lists.

A great source for new people to connect with is other people’s curated Twitter lists.

Whatever your interests are, you can find well-curated lists and subscribe to them.

Twitter users often create lists or subscribe to other people’s lists to improve their signal-to-noise ratio. As long as people make their lists public, you are free to subscribe to them, quickly getting access to dozens or hundreds of vetted Twitter users.

Some lists are more serious than others.

Use Twitter’s search functionality.

You can use Twitter’s search functionality to find relevant people and engage with them.

For example, let’s say you had a product or service for NASCAR fans. Start by doing a search on #nascar within Twitter.

Searching on #nascar will help you find passionate NASCAR fans whom you can then follow.

You could then join the conversation by @ (mentioning) them, answering their questions and otherwise engaging them.

If your business is more local, like a restaurant, you can find out who’s hungry and in driving distance.

Filter your search by geography to find local people on Twitter to follow.

You could then reach out to those starving denizens on Twitter and offer them a discount or free drink if they come in now and mention “Twitter” as they place their order.

For more ideas on finding and following the right people, be sure to check out 7 Twitter Strategies for Growing a Great Following.

#2: Tweet Interesting Stuff

Easier said than done, right?

How do you find interesting content? Here are some ideas.

Use Google Alerts.

Set up Google Alerts (or a similar service) to get daily email updates about all of the things that are of interest to your audience—from “vegan recipes” to “grilling product reviews”—and share them through Twitter.

Share media.

Photos and videos are a proven way to engage your audience. Use photos to share your activity or events so your business will get click-throughs and comments.

A real estate agent might share a video walkthrough of a new house and ask “what do you think?” A retail shop may share photos of some new additions to their display window. A travel agent might share pictures from a beach vacation and ask, “Are you ready for your getaway?”

Photos engage, especially if you tie them into a giveaway.

Talk to people, not at them.

Chances are, what is of interest to your audience is what they’re already talking about! Rather than trying to get the ball rolling, why not keep it rolling? See what your audience is talking about and engage them in that conversation. Ask questions, answer them, retweet and respond.

For more ideas on how to create more interesting tweets, check out 26 Twitter Tips for Enhancing Your Tweets.

#3: Engage

People on Twitter who don’t talk to other people are significantly less engaging and less likely to get followers.

Just because someone didn’t immediately follow you back doesn’t mean that you can’t engage them. Check out their conversations and see if you can jump in with relevant comments, or retweet some of their links.

Also, being part of conversations will get you in front of more people, increasing your chances of being followed.

Get involved with #chats.

Anyone can start a chat on Twitter by using a hashtag. You can find a long list of chats in this Google doc, along with days and times.

By joining the conversation at appropriate chats, you can quickly build your relevant followers… Assuming you have something valuable to add!

If you’re looking to engage bloggers, you could chime in at the #BWEChat.

Schedule chats to reach a wider audience.

While there are many marketers who hate scheduled tweets—I’m looking at you, Unmarketer—many others embrace the tactic.

Using a tool like HootSuite or Buffer, you can schedule out a day’s, week’s or month’s worth of tweets. I would recommend you use a scheduling tool to supplement your regular tweets rather than replacing them.

If you’re going to schedule your tweets, try to be aware of when people respond to anything you share. When people respond to your tweets and you’re not there to respond to them, they’re less likely to engage you in the future.

#4: Promote Your Twitter Account Through Other Channels

Leverage the following you’ve built elsewhere by promoting your Twitter account.

Talk up Twitter at your website, blog and through email.

At flyte, we include our Twitter handles—with clickable links—next to all of our bios. We also include links to our Twitter handles from all appropriate blog posts.

People can follow you without having to leave the page they’re on.

You can also include a “follow me on Twitter” call to action in your email signature file, email newsletter and all other correspondence.

Leverage your social media outposts.

Likewise, include links (and calls to action) on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube.

You may be tempted to sync all of your updates and tweets together using a tool like Ping.fm, HootSuite or TweetDeck. While there’s nothing wrong with this, use this technique judiciously.

Certain platforms may not be as “chatty” as Twitter, and if we’re already connected on LinkedIn and you’re syncing all of your tweets and LinkedIn updates, what’s the value of getting the same content on Twitter?

Get more visibility with a Paper.li newspaper.

Paper.li is a free service that allows you to create “newspapers” out of your Twitter feed (as well as some integration of Facebook and Google+).

Your daily paper.li can pull from the people you follow, your lists, or specific keywords or hashtags you include. Paper.li can also tweet out your daily paper, including which people contributed your “top stories.”

I’ve found that these tweets often get retweets from the people mentioned, and suddenly they’re sharing your content with their network, elevating your brand.

Promoting the people you’re following encourages more follow-backs and engagement.

In this video you can see how to create your own paper.li daily:

One caveat: I no longer recommend including hashtags to pull in new people to your paper.li. Turns out some disreputable people might be using the same hashtags, populating your paper.li with spam.

So how do you bring in fresh content from new people to your paper.li daily? Here’s what I did: find people you respect and look at the targeted lists they’ve created. Then you caninclude their curated lists to help round out your paper.

Using others’ lists can greatly improve your own paper!

Now It’s Your Turn!

What do you think? What tips, tools or tactics have you been using to build your own relevant Twitter following? Share something in the comments box below and include your Twitter handle and you’ll be sure to pick up a few new followers!

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4 Ways to Grow a Twitter Following That Matters

Jesse Killspatrick

Jesse Killspatrick

Is Twitter working for your business?

Are you looking to grow a larger and more relevant Twitter following?

This article will show you four actionable steps you can take to improve your Twitter experience.

Why Twitter Is Not Just a Numbers Game

Many brands, businesses and marketers have already discovered how powerful Twitter is for finding and engaging their audience.

Its low cost, immediacy and viral nature make it a favorite tool for everyone from news organizations to celebrities to small businesses.

Yet when marketers jump on Twitter for the first time, they wonder why they don’t get an overwhelming response to their initial tweet. Soon they learn that they must develop a following.

They see others with followings of 500, 5,000 or 50,000 and they want some of that. So they start to Google “how to get more followers on Twitter” or falling for tweets like this one:

If it sounds too good to be true…

Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s not too difficult to build a following on Twitter if you’re willing to partake in some shady, bad-karma tactics—from following and unfollowing people to creating hundreds of bogus accounts that follow you and retweet everything you say to buying followers on the black market.

But few if any of those followers will provide you any value for the time you put into Twitter.

So I’m also here to tell you that it’s not how many followers you have, but how many relevant followers you have. Having 20,000 followers who don’t respond to anything you share is equivalent to shouting from the top of the Empire State Building and claiming all of New York City as your audience.

Yes: more engaged followers are better than fewer engaged followers. So, let’s focus on getting more engaged followers.

Building a relevant Twitter following comes down to four core concepts:

Find and follow relevant people.

Tweet content that will be interesting to your target audience.

Engage with your audience.

Promote your Twitter account through other channels.

With that framework in place, here are some tips, tools and tactics to attract relevant followers on Twitter.

#1: Find and Follow Relevant People

Your audience is out there… Now, how to find them?

Start with a strong profile.

Because most people will check out your profile before following you, it’s important to put your house in order and present yourself in the most engaging way possible.

This includes:

Profile photo: Make sure you’re using a photo of your face for your personal account or a logo for your business account. Research has shown that people trust faces more that they’ve seen multiple times, which is why a photo of your smiling face works best.

Detailed bio: You’ve got 160 characters, so get creative! Let people know why they should be following you.

Location: Because so much of business is local these days, make sure you include your location as appropriate. It can be the make or break for follows. 

Strong profiles increase your followers. Blue hair doesn’t hurt.

Discover new people with third-party tools.

One of the first places to start your search for relevant people is at one of the many Twitter directories out there.

In a discussion around Twitter tools in Social Media Examiner’s Small Business Networking Club, everyone seemed to have a favorite tool or tip.

Social media marketer Paul Wylie recommends Twellow (for the clean interface) and WeFollow (for finding influencers). You can search by industry, location or keyword for starters.

WeFollow has many categories. Thus, whether you’re targeting personal trainers or WordPress trainers, you’ll find them here.

Karen James, a social media coach from the UK, likes Tweepi to check out people before she follows them. Karen Black, a digital marketer also from the UK, uses ManageFlitter to do bio searches, as well as keep an eye on her followers.

Use these tools to search for your own industry and the industries of your ideal customers.

Leverage other people’s Twitter lists.

A great source for new people to connect with is other people’s curated Twitter lists.

Whatever your interests are, you can find well-curated lists and subscribe to them.

Twitter users often create lists or subscribe to other people’s lists to improve their signal-to-noise ratio. As long as people make their lists public, you are free to subscribe to them, quickly getting access to dozens or hundreds of vetted Twitter users.

Some lists are more serious than others.

Use Twitter’s search functionality.

You can use Twitter’s search functionality to find relevant people and engage with them.

For example, let’s say you had a product or service for NASCAR fans. Start by doing a search on #nascar within Twitter.

Searching on #nascar will help you find passionate NASCAR fans whom you can then follow.

You could then join the conversation by @ (mentioning) them, answering their questions and otherwise engaging them.

If your business is more local, like a restaurant, you can find out who’s hungry and in driving distance.

Filter your search by geography to find local people on Twitter to follow.

You could then reach out to those starving denizens on Twitter and offer them a discount or free drink if they come in now and mention “Twitter” as they place their order.

For more ideas on finding and following the right people, be sure to check out 7 Twitter Strategies for Growing a Great Following.

#2: Tweet Interesting Stuff

Easier said than done, right?

How do you find interesting content? Here are some ideas.

Use Google Alerts.

Set up Google Alerts (or a similar service) to get daily email updates about all of the things that are of interest to your audience—from “vegan recipes” to “grilling product reviews”—and share them through Twitter.

Share media.

Photos and videos are a proven way to engage your audience. Use photos to share your activity or events so your business will get click-throughs and comments.

A real estate agent might share a video walkthrough of a new house and ask “what do you think?” A retail shop may share photos of some new additions to their display window. A travel agent might share pictures from a beach vacation and ask, “Are you ready for your getaway?”

Photos engage, especially if you tie them into a giveaway.

Talk to people, not at them.

Chances are, what is of interest to your audience is what they’re already talking about! Rather than trying to get the ball rolling, why not keep it rolling? See what your audience is talking about and engage them in that conversation. Ask questions, answer them, retweet and respond.

For more ideas on how to create more interesting tweets, check out 26 Twitter Tips for Enhancing Your Tweets.

#3: Engage

People on Twitter who don’t talk to other people are significantly less engaging and less likely to get followers.

Just because someone didn’t immediately follow you back doesn’t mean that you can’t engage them. Check out their conversations and see if you can jump in with relevant comments, or retweet some of their links.

Also, being part of conversations will get you in front of more people, increasing your chances of being followed.

Get involved with #chats.

Anyone can start a chat on Twitter by using a hashtag. You can find a long list of chats in this Google doc, along with days and times.

By joining the conversation at appropriate chats, you can quickly build your relevant followers… Assuming you have something valuable to add!

If you’re looking to engage bloggers, you could chime in at the #BWEChat.

Schedule chats to reach a wider audience.

While there are many marketers who hate scheduled tweets—I’m looking at you, Unmarketer—many others embrace the tactic.

Using a tool like HootSuite or Buffer, you can schedule out a day’s, week’s or month’s worth of tweets. I would recommend you use a scheduling tool to supplement your regular tweets rather than replacing them.

If you’re going to schedule your tweets, try to be aware of when people respond to anything you share. When people respond to your tweets and you’re not there to respond to them, they’re less likely to engage you in the future.

#4: Promote Your Twitter Account Through Other Channels

Leverage the following you’ve built elsewhere by promoting your Twitter account.

Talk up Twitter at your website, blog and through email.

At flyte, we include our Twitter handles—with clickable links—next to all of our bios. We also include links to our Twitter handles from all appropriate blog posts.

People can follow you without having to leave the page they’re on.

You can also include a “follow me on Twitter” call to action in your email signature file, email newsletter and all other correspondence.

Leverage your social media outposts.

Likewise, include links (and calls to action) on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube.

You may be tempted to sync all of your updates and tweets together using a tool like Ping.fm, HootSuite or TweetDeck. While there’s nothing wrong with this, use this technique judiciously.

Certain platforms may not be as “chatty” as Twitter, and if we’re already connected on LinkedIn and you’re syncing all of your tweets and LinkedIn updates, what’s the value of getting the same content on Twitter?

Get more visibility with a Paper.li newspaper.

Paper.li is a free service that allows you to create “newspapers” out of your Twitter feed (as well as some integration of Facebook and Google+).

Your daily paper.li can pull from the people you follow, your lists, or specific keywords or hashtags you include. Paper.li can also tweet out your daily paper, including which people contributed your “top stories.”

I’ve found that these tweets often get retweets from the people mentioned, and suddenly they’re sharing your content with their network, elevating your brand.

Promoting the people you’re following encourages more follow-backs and engagement.

In this video you can see how to create your own paper.li daily:

One caveat: I no longer recommend including hashtags to pull in new people to your paper.li. Turns out some disreputable people might be using the same hashtags, populating your paper.li with spam.

So how do you bring in fresh content from new people to your paper.li daily? Here’s what I did: find people you respect and look at the targeted lists they’ve created. Then you caninclude their curated lists to help round out your paper.

Using others’ lists can greatly improve your own paper!

Now It’s Your Turn!

What do you think? What tips, tools or tactics have you been using to build your own relevant Twitter following? Share something in the comments box below and include your Twitter handle and you’ll be sure to pick up a few new followers!

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