Before I explain how to get people to follow you on Twitter....
Let's just quickly look at WHY you want to focus your energy here and not on Facebook.
I used to be a Facebook page fanatic until quite recently.
I managed to grow a really great Facebook page for my online baby store and it was pumping.... the problem though is that although I have lots of fans and they are very active on Facebook they are not great quality website visitors.
I have personally found the bounce rate for Facebook visitors quite high, they don't spend much time on my website and they don't convert very well at all.
So yes they engage on Facebook but they seem to like to stay there, if they do go to my website they go to the link I shared and that's it.
I then kept hearing that Twitter is the best social network and that Twitter users convert the best out of all the social networks.
So I decided to start spending some more time and effort on Twitter with my new websites and not spend so much time and effort engaging on Facebook.
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I suppose my content is better now after all this training... but it is still the worst quality of the lot.
I won't count LinkedIn because I don't even know how it works hahaha. I am on it, and I share to it but I honestly haven't a clue...
Do you have any other suggestions?
Ok so let's try this again. I think you should sign up for Tweet Jukebox asap, this will keep fun and interesting tweets coming on a regular basis. I think I have them scheduled for 3 times a day? Can't remember really.
Then with regards to engaging with others, the same policy applies here as it does to quality comments. Click on their link, scan their blog and leave a thought out and quality reply to their tweet that shows you have read their content. Help them out like you would like to receive help. If you do this as opposed to "hey thats cool" I promise you that that person will most likely do the same for you asap.
Then with following people, I'm not talking about following one new person a day. I'm talking about following like 50 in a day :) But make it no more than 100 daily. It's not that hard. Look for a user that you really enjoy that has loads of followers and then scan them all and every one that looks interesting and in your niches click follow.
I promise you that if you follow 50 people a day you will get a good amount of followers and very fast.
Oh and every now and then I go into the list of people I follow and unfollow a whole whack of them that aren't following me, not all the don't follow me but I try and keep the amount of people that I follow and that follow me around the same.
Thanks for the tips. I am definitely not following 50 people a day. It seems so time consuming being on twitter. I will try following more though and see how that works. I also find that so many people are just retweeting others. I think some accounts are set up just to retweet people.
Question about Tweet Jukebox. What kind of quotes are these? I assume they would pertain to many niches? I guess I should take a look at the site.
Nice going... I don't think I even have 100 Pinterest followers but really I don't even go on there, I just pin to it and leave it. I suppose as with any social network you need to spend a bit of time to get anywhere :)
