How Do You Grow a Twitter Following?

You don’t need to buy a white paper or an e-book to understand how to grow your Twitter following, but you can benefit from some of my own tried and tested techniques that I will freely share in this post.

First let me share with you some statistics from client accounts showing their actual growth over time.

Client One: start=0, 8/13= 187 followers, 9/1=308 follower, 10/241 566 followers

Client Two: start=0, 8/13=89 followers, 9/1=220 followers, 10/21 371 followers

Client Three: start=0, 9/1=64 followers, 9/14=117 followers, 10/21=320 followers

To put this in perspective here is the traffic for a client account we started but did not provide services for in the same time period showing natural growth as a control.

Client A: start=0, 8/13=5 followers, 9/1=11 followers, 10/24=18 followers.

That’s a pretty big difference 303 to 547 followers versus 18 in the same time period.

So how do we do it? Here are my tips:

1. Tweet a minimum of 5 times a day.
2. Tweet 5 days a week.
3. Schedule your tweets to start at 8:00 am and then space them out to about 4:00 pm.
4. Include tips and trivia in your tweets as well as links.
5. Become the authority in your area – share your knowledge.
6. Interact a minimum of twice daily with followers of people you follow through direct messages or @’s
7. Thank people for retweets.
8. Send comments to others about their tweets – I really liked what you said about …
9. Use bit.ly to track your clicks. Once you see that people do click what you link to you will know the value of the time you invest in Twitter.
10. Get professional help if you don’t know what to do. We do provide Twitter services if you need them.
11. Make sure you follow and unfollow anyone who follows or unfollow you using Social Oomph.