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How to Get a Consistent Rush of New Followers Everyday

By Mikkel Juhl On March 23, 2010 Under General

We are in a time, which is like a “twitter-period” which means every time someone mentions social media, you probably would be thinking of Twitter or “microblogging”. This is not a bad thing. Everyone is on Twitter, even some bicyclers have a passion for Twitter. Lance Armstrong, Andy Schleck including many other riders are on Twitter.

Now Twitter isn’t only for riders, many are using it. Including me and some of my closest Internet marketing friends. Actually I met one of the coolest Internet marketer on Twitter. His name is David King, he is helping everyone.

He knows some of the keys to get lots of followers daily.

Following Targeted People

This should make sense, to follow people and they will follow back.

But most people will only follow you back if:

  • You have a profile picture of you (should be a smiling picture)
  • You have a custom background (looks more professional)
  • You are writing quality Tweets (you would be worth to follow)

So if you can pass on these things people are more likely to follow you. Well number one and three are the most important rules. If you have a profile picture, people will remember you for the picture. People remember picture better than text (it’s actually proven). So when they see that profile picture they will check the background (if there is one) and after that the Tweets.

After the Tweets they see the follow button, if they want to follow you. Now everybody haven’t set the Twitter notifications on, when getting a new follower, so they might not see that you are following them. How to do that?

It’s simple, just write them a reply. Write something like “@DaneBlogger Hello, how are you today? Hope you enjoy writing on your blog.” Be sure to praise the Twitter-er for his/hers work with the blog or something else that the Twitter-er is doing/working on.

Interacting With the Targeted People

When you are following them, they may not follow you back just like that. Even though if you have written a reply to them, then you have to try in another way to make them following you. It could be by replying to their tweets. Reply does not mean a tweet like this “@DaneBlogger That’s right.” You have to debate and give your opinion.

Interacting is one of the best way to gain new followers and to maintain relationship with your followers. If you interact with your followers they will feel that someone is listening to them, it is especially great when tweeps (twitter people) that doesn’t have that many followers get a reply. They really appreciate replies, because they don’t get them that often.

The reason why we are interacting is NOT only because we want to get followers. We want to build a relationship with the Twitter-er because if we have a strong relationship with our followers they will link to us, retweet our tweets, just being very helpful in general. So after you got the follow you still need to interact with them, because that will give you more influence.

Retweet Other Tweep’s Tweets

Everyone appreciate to get retweeted, it is one of the easiest ways to get a reply to your Twitter account because they might say: “@DaneBlogger thank you for the retweet, I really appreciate it!” then you have a reply and tweeps that follow his Twitter account will see your Twitter account as a link and they may follow you then.

Conclusion

You actually just need to be active interact, follow and retweet, do it daily and you will get lots of new followers every day, it may take you around 1 hour (or more) “work” per day, but it is worth it, if you create a relationship with your followers, get trusted, they will retweet some of your tweets!

If you want to learn more about Twitter and how to get lots of targeted followers I can recommend these free Twitter videos, they are created by David King, remember the guy I told you about before :-) ! Just keep in mind, these videos are completely free!

You can watch the free Twitter Influence videos using the link here. Hope you enjoy the videos, I know I did!


9 comments - add yours

David King

August 23, 2009 at 03:04

Great post and great content Mikkel.

I appreciate everything that you do my man!

Keep up the great work! this blog will rise in the rankings! I can feel it ;)

take care!

Dbk

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Britt Malka

September 21, 2009 at 15:54

Very well written, Mikkel! I’m hyper impressed :)

I’m one of those who only follow interesting people, I find myself or through others (like you recommended David King), or the few of my followers who actually interact with me, so I notice them. So I really agree on the content of this blog post. Nice piece of advice to tell people to contact those they follow right away.

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Mikkel Juhl

September 21, 2009 at 15:59

I love when people interact with me. I also love, to interact with others. Twitter is so amazing. You can communicate, and have a conversation 140 cahrs to 140 chars it is so awesome.

I find myself unfollowing people all the time, when they don’t deliver quality tweets. Or if they only post links or so.

I love the variation of tweets. So I try to variate my tweets as well. Seem to work, pretty good.

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Dev | Technshare

March 24, 2010 at 08:23

ya that’s right Mikkel following targeted people and retweeting is great way to get some new followers:P
thanks for this great post
.-= Dev | Technshare’s last blog ..A Video Marketing Blueprint That Will Knock Your Socks Off =-.

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Henrik Blunck

March 25, 2010 at 01:46

I agree that we should definitely interact, but am also conscious that many often don’t. Even the best tweets rarely get retweeted until you have a large following.

Somehow like the snob effect is only there once you have passed the x.000 limit. Joel Comm also mentions this in his book “Twitter Power”. In other words: you can be the best participant on Twitter, and yet people will still be egotistical.

Sometimes, you even see people copy a tweet, or just rewriting it slightly, and then they send it out as their own content. There is only one word that fits such actitivity: a “copycat”…

But thanks for a good article. If only people would follow your advice, Twitter would be a better place. :-)
.-= Henrik Blunck’s last blog ..399 Spam Comments =-.

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