How You Can Get More Twitter Followers
With over 100 millions users around the world, Twitter is a very popular global social media website that can be used as a mini blog since each post (called a tweet) is 140 characters or less. You can use it as a great marketing tool too, but to be successful you need to know how to use it effectively, and we would love to share our top tips with you:
Use your own photo as profile picture, people are more likely to follow you if they see a friendly face.
More people will respond to a female face than a male face, so if you are a man include pictures with your wife, a female relative or female business associate, but always make sure you have permission from them to use the photos.
Include relevent photos in most of your tweets, and tweet some videos too, this makes your Twitter feed more interesting. Vary the content of your tweets, include motivation, fun and lifestyle ones, as well as the tweets that invite people to ask for info about your business.
Never be negative in your tweets or comments, people want to be around positive people.
Mention special offers when you have them, one of the main reasons people will follow a business on Twitter is to hear about special offers.
Ask questions in some of your tweets, so you get comments. You can also tweet things you know people will agree with, and in your tweet tell people to share if they agree, this will get your tweet seen by more people.
Put posts up on other social media asking people to follow you on Twitter too.
Make use as many of the 140 characters as possible, include # that a both relevent to your business and also are popular.
Use services like Meet Edgar, Hootsuite or Buffer schedule and automated your tweets. All of these services also have ways to shortened the link in your tweets, this is a good idea as it makes the link more likley to be clicked and also give you more spare characters for other words.
Be consistent with your tweets, and tweet at the times on day when your followers are likley to be online.
Retweet and comment on tweets of people who have a lot of followers.
Keep following new people, those with similar interests, people from your local area and followers of rival companies. Thank people when they follow you back and answer messages quickly,
And regularly look at your own Twitter profile and think to yourself, if you were someone looking at your business would you want to join you based on your profile? If not, improve it, make it more appealing and interesting.
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