7 Top Ideas To Instantly Increase Twitter Followers

For those who use Twitter, getting more followers can give your profile and online presence more credibility, and this can also be a times difficult. 

 

When you share great, resourceful, up to date and helpful contents, this is bound to massively increase the number of people who pay more attention to your tweets. 

 

The search engines also pick up information posted via your account and thereby you appear top on the search engine list of results. This is also a very credible way to get better exposure.

1. Install a Twitter Follow Button.
The official Twitter follow button makes it easy for people to follow you directly from your site.
Installing a Twitter button is really easy, it just takes copying and pasting the code, and inserting your username. I have twitter follow buttons installed in this blog, feel free to use them if you want to see how they work.

2. Get More Twitter Followers By Following Highly Relevant People.

The more relevant the people you follow are, the better the chance is that they will follow you back. 

The best way to ensure you are building relevant connections is to check out people for yourself. 

 

Give their bio a quick read and have a look at their tweets.  If their tweets and bio resonate with you give them a follow and there is a good chance they will follow back.

3. Engage Twitter Giants. i.e. Active accounts with large followers. If you can engage Twitter Giants, you can potentially get a large amount of exposure if they respond to you. Your chances of getting the attention of a Twitter Giant grows as your following grows.  Be persistent.  

 

Get them on lists and tweet their original content.  Mention them for #FollowFriday, Today is Friday! I engage with Twitter Giants on a regular basis and I’m sure that if you keep trying you can do the same.
 

4. Use a Tweet Button in Your Blog Post.

Your blog can be a great tool to help you get more Twitter followers. Make sure that your blog links out to your Twitter and features Twitter share buttons. 

 

Sites with twitter share buttons installed get seven times the twitter mentions as websites without them. Twitter already launched the official tweet button, and I recommend you use it. 

 

If you install this button into your pages or posts manually you can also choose to have the button recommend people to follow after a  tweet is sent.

5. Do a Charity Promotion.
Drew Carey (@Drewfromtv) offered to donate $1 for every follower he gets, up until 1,000,000 followers. This strategy has netted him over 600,000 followers already, and plenty of publicity.

6. Create a Great Looking Twitter Background.

Most people still use the web based version of Twitter, which means they will see your background when surfing to your profile. 

 

If you take the time to create a custom Twitter background people will notice and you will get more follows as a result. Check out the tool Themelon for millions of color combinations.

7. Pick a Short and Memorable Twitter User Name.
The shorter your username the better. Many people still use the classic style retweets, so having a shorter username means that more people will be able to retweet your tweets.

8. Tweet Often.
@unmarketing said the month he became really big on Twitter he tweeted about 10,000 times. By tweeting all the time you might piss a bunch of people off, but the ones who don’t unfollow you will be much more familiar with you, and will be more likely to retweet you. 

 

How effective this strategy is depends entirely on what you tweet about, of course. The more you tweet, the better chance you have of your tweets being seen by people who do not follow you yet. The more recent your tweets are, the more relevant it will seem for someone to follow you.