Twitter Instructions to Get Followers Fast

As I write this post, I have joined Twitter only 24 hours ago. Already, after only about 30 minutes of effort, I have almost 120 followers, and I expect more to come on board over the next few days.

In the meantime, I will spend a little more time working with Twitter to get even more followers coming my way.

Twitter is a hot item right now, and a powerful way to drive traffic to your blog or website, and to begin establishing a relationship with people. Whether that relationship develops into a friendship or a business relationship, or a mentor-student relationship is irrelevant, as the point is that Twitter is enabling these relationships to get started.

As step one to the process of getting followers on Twitter, you need to spend a few moments getting your profile set up. There’s not much to it, just get a short bio statement and a link to your website. Also upload a picture of yourself so that people can identify with you.

When you get new followers (be patient), a natural activity is to send out a thank you response. That’s a fine idea but as you can imagine it gets time consuming if you are getting 100 new followers a day. There is a solution. You can sign up for a free Twitter-related service at TweetLater.com that will send out automated welcome messages for you. It’s a great time saver.

The messages are short, so you need to be creative with the available characters. Definitely thank them for following you. Without being pushy or trying to sell anything, you could offer your URL to get more help or learn about you. You can also offer a promise of future help, without any link.

The TweetLater service has other features as well, including one that will automatically follow anyone who follows you. That’s always nice and encourages them to stick around, so that’s what I’m doing.

How to Get Twitter Followers

Signing up for Twitter is easy, but then many people wonder what steps to take to get followers. I’ll give you the strategy I’m using. I’ve only tried it for one day, and that consisted of about 30 minutes of effort, and I got almost 120 followers, so it looks like it works to me.

Of course, I learned this strategy from an expert who has nearly 3,000 followers as we speak, and he’s not even trying hard to build his list further.

Here’s the key tip: in order to get followers, you must first follow other people. Many people will reciprocate with a follow. This is a pure, simple strategy that is super easy to implement.

But you don’t want to follow random people. What you do is search Twitter to find the “gurus” in your niche, or field, and follow the people that are following them. The gurus will have already attracted a targeted following, perfect you you to tap into and benefit.

You can also find guru’s promoting their Twitter link from their blogs and websites. That’s another way to find these valuable portals into the Twitter system.

Twitter allows you to follow a maximum of 2,000 people (unless you have a strong following yourself, in which case you are allowed more followers) so start sending out follow requests.

Find several gurus and make requests from their follow lists. Spread your requests around to get a more diverse group of followers.

To avoid the appearance of following many people with few followers yourself, you may want to space out your requests somewhat to allow people to follow you. Personally, I send out about 400 follow requests and got over 100 to follow within one day. I expect another 50-100 over the new week or so.

In the meantime, I’ll send out more requests.

As you attract followers, and they visit your profile, you will want to be sure that you have a link back to your blog or website. Twitter is a great source of traffic.

After sending out your follow requests, allow a week or two for people to follow. If they don’t you might want to unfollow them so you can make room for more requests. You should get a 25-50% follow ratio depending on whether your bio, picture, and any announcements you’ve prepared create a favorable impression.

So you will need to put together a few quality announcements to create the perception of value (and hopefully adding value is your primary objective).

After a few weeks, from your 2000 follow requests you sould be about to get 500 to 1000 followers!

It’s that fast and easy, and these are just the right targeted market you seek. That’s why Twitter is such a powerful resource.

All you need to do is get started and you could have a strong following in no time. Why not start today?

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