Last week, I posted on different approaches to following people on Twitter. Today, let’s what you need to do if you want to attract followers.
1. Share valuable, interesting and useful links to content, Web sites and online services. What you’re doing is acting as a data filter to highlight the “good stuff”; something people appreciate as they try to navigate the digital landscape.
2. Step up, and reply to what other people are saying, offering and asking. Be an engaged, active and helpful member of the community. Your efforts won’t go unappreciated.
3. Twitter on a regular basis but don’t go overboard. There’s nothing that can turn off potential followers than blasting out multiple posts. The noise gets so loud that at some point people simply stop listening.
4. You don’t have to follow everyone who follows you but following a solid number people yourself can only encourage only people to follow you. It can be a turn off, for example, to look at someone’s profile to see that they have 800 followers but follow only 10 people.
5. Unless you’re only interested in reaching out to family and friends, stay away from using Twitter to broadcast personal minutia. Using Twitter tell people you’re getting ready to have coffee, having a haircut, feeling tried, stuck in traffic or unhappy it’s raining doesn’t isn’t that interesting. That’s not to suggest you’re not interesting; it’s just that beyond your friends and family, other people don’t need to know your daily actions.
6. Put a Twitter badge (e.g. TwitterCounter) on your blog to show people you’re on Twitter.
More: Sarah Evans (no relation) has a post on Mashable about How NOT to build a Twitter community with a bunch of helpful tips.
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Attracting Followers 101
Last week, I posted on different approaches to following people on Twitter. Today, let’s what you need to do if you want to attract followers.
1. Share valuable, interesting and useful links to content, Web sites and online services. What you’re doing is acting as a data filter to highlight the “good stuff”; something people appreciate as they try to navigate the digital landscape.
2. Step up, and reply to what other people are saying, offering and asking. Be an engaged, active and helpful member of the community. Your efforts won’t go unappreciated.
3. Twitter on a regular basis but don’t go overboard. There’s nothing that can turn off potential followers than blasting out multiple posts. The noise gets so loud that at some point people simply stop listening.
4. You don’t have to follow everyone who follows you but following a solid number people yourself can only encourage only people to follow you. It can be a turn off, for example, to look at someone’s profile to see that they have 800 followers but follow only 10 people.
5. Unless you’re only interested in reaching out to family and friends, stay away from using Twitter to broadcast personal minutia. Using Twitter tell people you’re getting ready to have coffee, having a haircut, feeling tried, stuck in traffic or unhappy it’s raining doesn’t isn’t that interesting. That’s not to suggest you’re not interesting; it’s just that beyond your friends and family, other people don’t need to know your daily actions.
6. Put a Twitter badge (e.g. TwitterCounter) on your blog to show people you’re on Twitter.
More: Sarah Evans (no relation) has a post on Mashable about How NOT to build a Twitter community with a bunch of helpful tips.
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