If you use Twitter to any great degree, you’ve probably already seen the potential it can create for you.
The problem, as with most blogging and microblogging platforms, is making time to write tweets and get involved. Here are some techniques I’ve been using to keep my followers occupied with regular tweets.
Twitter Utility #1 – TwitterFeed
I am going to have to assume that you run a blog (any platform, Blogger, Wordpress, self hosted etc.)(if you don’t why not??). Using the TwitterFeed system connected to your Twitter account, you can have every post that you write for your blog, added to your Twitter page as a tweet. This is perfect as you will be writing for your blog anyway. It keeps your Twitter account fresh and will inevitably mean you get more followers. You can setup multiple blog feeds into Twitter to gather even more momentum.
Go to www.twitterfeed.com to setup your account.
Twitter Utility #2 – TweetLater
This second Twitter tip is to do with keeping in touch with your new followers. If you’ve setup your TwitterFeed account, and your Twitter account is gathering followers, wouldn’t it be nice to send each new follower a message, maybe just saying hello, or offering them something for free by visiting your blog or web site. What about if you automatically followed them too?
Again, Twitter is about momentum. The more people you follow, the more people will see your profile on profiles that they follow, and you will gather more followers. You follow ;0)?
TweetLater is a service that you can setup to do exactly that (and more, but that’s for another post). Each time someone follows you, you can send them a welcome message, and autofollow them. This is fantastic to build up your twitter followers reasonably quickly.
Go to www.tweetlater.com and explore the other features the site has, such as schedule tweets.
Twitter Utility #3 – Auto Unfollow Twitter Followers
The one problem with autofollowing is that you are only allowed to follow more than 2,000 people if you have 2,000 or more people following you. When I first set this up on my Twitter account, I reached following 2,000 quite quickly, but only had around 1,700 followers. I couldn’t follow any more. After doing some searching, I found a few sites that offered the option of unfollowing people not following you. The best one I found was FriendorFollow. Enter your Twitter account details, and it will respond back with who’s following you and who’s not. You can select multiple people and bulk unfollow them (if you wish). My Twitter account is now back on track and I’m following an even amount of followers.
www.friendorfollow.com will help you sort out your followers list.
Obviously, your Twitter model may be different to mine. I have other Twitter accounts that are much more conservative and dedicated to niche topics, and I use different techniques for those. But my main account is to generate traffic to my sites, so this process works for me.
Do you have any Twitter tips to share?
By the way, how do you like my new bookmark icons below? Neat huh? Stay posted here and I’ll tell you where I got them.
