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Great article. I chose to search hashtags, found a few twitters that were wanting to talk about the same subject as me, read they bio, their tweets, etc. If I liked what I read, I followed them and hoped for a follow back.
Also there are some great simple programs that match you to other Tweeters
Wefollow & Mr.Tweet work well, they give you suggestions of who you could follow, and who your friends are following.
I added FriendFollow to find out what my friend were sharing, which takes you a little outside the Twitter realm
And ReFollow to find out who is not following you, so you can re-reach out to them again.
Re-tweeting the same rubbish over and over again does not make me want to follow you, be informative or witty, or post great articles. Don't over post or post 20 articles in 5 seconds. Be of some worth to your followers and more people will follow you.
That's all I have learnt so far. @smoothape
Thank you for this post. I really appreciate the detail in the content. These may be common sense ideas and perhaps I should have known them, but honestly, I have not seen these tips before, basic but beneficial!
Great headline, Mike...it really captures the tactless approach some marketers take with Twitter.
The race mentality -- "I want to accumulate as many Twitter followers as possible, as quickly as possible" -- undermines effective marketing.
It's not about building a massive database. It's about connecting with people who will buy your product, give you feedback, promote you to friends, and influence others to do business with you. And, if you do it right, it's also about LISTENING to the feedback and improving how you do business.
But, if you want to whore yourself out, there are plenty of hucksters happy to show you how...
Another pet peeve of mine: unfollowing someone just because they didn't follow you back. I mean really. Why follow someone in the first place? Because you want to know what they have to say. I know a lot of Twitter folks do this because they are merely trying to build a following ... they don't care what the folks they follow have to say. And that just isn't what Twitter is about. Besides, since I manually look through all my follow notices and choose to follow each one on a case-by-case basis, it can take me a while to follow someone. So now I get an email box full of people re-following me after I finally got around to following them. Erg. Really chaps my hide.
Great headline & nice pimped out pic!
I agree that buying Twitter leads is ridiculous. There are also those companies out there that will tweet for you. I mean, seriously...how can YOU form a relationship with those in your community if it's someone else tweeting for you. It just drives me nuts.
MY two favorite ways to find new followers is by using Twitter search to look for those in my niche, or like Andrew said, I will search hashtags. The other method I use is paying attention to who comments on the same blogs I read. If they leave an interesting comment on a blog we have in common, chances are that we will hit it off.
Nice tips. It will be very helpfull for Noobs. I already have 4000+ followers in One & Half Months
Great post. This needs to be said so urgently. The "secret" to building a network of valuable, real relationships with real people is that there is no "secret." It's worth investing the time in contributing to people, and vice versa.
I address this exact issue in my post, "Google, Maslow and Yoda." http://tr.im/wMF5 I invite the Hubspot community to read + share their thoughts.
So am I the only one who thinks putting up a picture of Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, WSOP ME Champion and one of the owners of FullTilt Poker, is hilarious?