How To Get Twitter Followers Fast

One of the big questions regarding Twitter is how to grow your Twitter followers. While there are several Twitter apps that will help you mass follow people, if you really want to succeed, you need to focus on finding followers who are interested in what you are saying. Easier said than done right? That’s why I’ve dedicated this post to the simple steps you can take to find followers who will follow you back and are interested in you without having to tediously do this one member at a time.

User’s following to followers ratio

First off, you need to keep in mind to always look at the users following to followers ratio. If they have 10,000 people following them but only follow 100, it’s very unlikely they’ll follow you back. But at the other extreme, if they follow 10,000 people, it’s likely they are using a Twitter app that automatically follows everyone who follows them. Now, we can start talking about specific apps to use.

Twitter Tools

There are hundreds or possibly thousands of Twitter apps that can help you gain followers. Two great ones are:

Tweetstork

TweetStork is a free twitter tool that helps you find Twitter users who want to read and share your tweets. This Twitter tool is simply for following and unfollowing users with a limit of following 15 users per day with their free version. Though it does lack statistics and analytics which are becoming increasingly more important for businesses.

Features include:

• Filter a similar user’s followers by their description.

• Find Twitter users who have lists set up for people like you.

• Find Twitter users who are retweeting tweets of users like you.

• Unfollow Twitter users who aren’t following you back.

Twitter Adder

Twitter Adder also provides a free option that features advanced search functions to help you find and engage with Twitter users who are interested in what you say, as well as to automate your Twitter post. While the free option limits the number of followers you can find through the app, you can remove this limitation by upgrading to the paid version.

Features include:

Other Ways to Gain Followers

• Promote your Twitter account on every presence you have - your website, blog, email signature, Facebook, other social media channels, in-store, newsletters and so on.

• Retweet and @ reply to get the attention of popular Twitter users in your industry. When they reply to you, your username will show up in their Twitter stream. This will help get the attention of their followers.

• Join industry forums and begin engaging with other members. Answer any questions they have and establish yourself as an authority figure. Add a link to your Twitter profile in your signature and profile description.

• Create a Twtrland profile. This app converts your Twitter streams into a visually appealing and detailed profile page to help others gain a better understanding of whether they really are interested in what you’re tweeting. For more information on how to create a Twtrland profile, click here.

• Apply SEO strategies such as putting hashtags (keywords) in your tweets so you appear when people search for the hashtag. For more information on how to optimize your Twitter for SEO, click here.

Now engage with your followers!

1. Follow back if I’m not already following
2. Visit their Twitter profile and send them a message using @username. A simple “@username. Thanks for the follow. Looking forward to connecting with you” will do the trick if you’re stuck for time.
3. Re-tweet one of their posts if it is relevant or interesting to your own followers
4. Visit their website or blog site
5. Comment on their blog post. State that you found them through Twitter, but make sure you comment is valuable. Do not spam.
6. Retweet their blog post if relevant
7. Link to their blog post if relevant

Remember that Twitter is a ‘social’ channel. Just like real life, you don’t speak ‘at’ a potential customer, you speak ‘with’ them. This means that you should be consistently engaging with your followers, rather than just pushing out one-sided tweets. Are there any other good Twitter tools you’re using to help increase Twitter followers? Let us know in the comments section below.

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