6 Ways To Build Your Follower Base On Twitter
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Everyone is talking about building a follower base on As a new entrant into the world of Twitter, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had built a base of over 280,000 followers in less than 9 months. What did I do to build a Twitter base and what were my learnings?
1. Understand the medium well
Twitter is an easy yet very complex medium to work with. It is very easy to start tweeting but it is quite a challenge to keep your message limited to only 140 characters. Once you are able to do that, you realise how pithy your communication can become.
It took me a while and a lot of reading on the Internet to understand what I could achieve with this medium. Everyone has a lot to say – so how will you get heard in all that noise? Set up your account carefully, select your photograph and the background, and establish your own security norms.
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2. Decide on the subject/s you wish to
This is important. If you decide to tweet on any subject, remember that you must have enough to say and you must say it with confidence and credibility. The subject is not the issue. That is your choice. What you say is important for a large base of Twitterati who you hope to have as your followers. Followers will ‘follow’ you but your challenge is to retain your followers. It is very easy to follow you but it is equally easy to unfollow you. I decided to tweet on start-ups and work-life balance on a regular basis.
3. Build a database of what you want to say
Once you start to tweet, you will be surprised at how soon you run out of things to say. So it would help if you create a spreadsheet and put down what you have to say on your selected topic/s. Thoughts on what you wish to tweet about will keep coming to you. Keep making a note of your thoughts – so that you don’t forget them. Once you have your database ready, tweeting becomes easy and you have a lot to tweet about.
Don’t hesitate to tweet something more than once because your audience may have missed out it in the spate of tweets that he/she could be following.
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Avoid using foul language and stay away from controversy. If you don’t like someone’s tweets, ‘unfollow’ the person instead of reacting to the tweets.4. Tweet frequently
It is important for people who read your twitter feed to see you regularly to stay connected. Your followers must feel that they are connected with you.
Therefore, based on trial and error, you will be able to understand the best time that your tweets are read. I found that my tweets are read, retweeted or favourited in the morning, at around 7 am, in the late morning, around 12 noon, and in the evening, at around 7 pm. Remember that your tweets are reaching a global audience and time zones need to be factored in. I have also found it is better to tweet 3-4 tweets at a time. When you do this, you get a ‘significant share of the page’ for a few moments for new followers to notice you and hopefully, they will start following you.
When people respond to your tweets, it is a good practice to respond to them. An engaged follower will ‘favourite’ or ‘retweet’ much more frequently, thus spreading your message to a large follower base. But I am not suggesting that you thank every follower you have or question every follower who has ‘unfollowed’ you.
5. Retweet
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The general unwritten custom in the Twitter world is if someone requests you to retweet, you do so without wondering why you should give access to your followers. Of course, if you find the content objectionable, you are within your rights to block a follower. On the other hand, there is nothing that could be as exciting as seeing your tweet being retweeted by a large number of your followers.6. Twillionaire
Twillionaire is a term used for people who have one million-plus followers. More than 85% of people have less than 1,000 followers. So don’t compare the number of your followers with movie stars, politicians or cricket stars. They are celebrities and people want to follow every aspect of such high profile life even though they may not have anything significant to say.
Build your base of followers slowly and surely. From a small base, you will suddenly see a lot of people following you and your base will grow every day.
Happy tweeting!
About the author: Ashutosh Garg is the chairman of Guardian Pharmacies and the author of the bestselling books, The Corner Office and The Buck Stops Here. Twitter: @gargashutosh
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