Have you been on Twitter for a while but don’t know how to get the most out of the tool? 

Do you see that your followers do not increase as quickly as you would like, and instead, you want to use good practices to gain recognition among your community?

Next, I will explain how I went, in a short month, from 100 followers to 3,300 using only the techniques explained in this article “Seguidores para Twitter”. 

You will see in this post “Curtidas no Twitter” that dedicating no more than half an hour each day to increase followers and likes. 

And all of it without losing the quality of the interaction with my followers and followers.

It is clear that quality is the essential thing in social networks, but without “quantity,” you will hardly gain repercussions. 

Sometimes common sense and a simple strategy are more effective than complex practices or tools you must first learn to use.

Start with these 5 points:

# 1. Do not despair at first

When you enter Twitter for the first time, you may feel that nothing is happening on the platform. Do not despair and try to understand the tool.

The basis of Twitter

Twitter is, by definition, an atypical social network. It has more potential when reaching many people more quickly and extensively. 

Still, its concept and operation mean that, more than any other platform, it maintains certain traits of individualism and unidirectional communication that are sometimes somewhat exasperating.

These are the two user profiles most shared on Twitter:

Those who master it and use it frequently have it as an essential tool and an essential part of their day-to-day.

Those who are just starting or don’t have much time to get to know and master it may find it frustrating.

The basis of Twitter is simple: I want to tell things because I want to share them and for others to listen to me, or I want to hear what others want to tell and share.

Namely, Twitter is about talking, listening, and following other people; hearing what they say is easy. Other people following you to listen to what you say is another story.

What type of user do you belong to?

If you have a blog, a website, or another platform where you publish quality content, you give it enough visibility and put a social layer on it; sooner or later, it will be revealed people will share that content and possibly start following your Twitter account to keep up with your posts or comments.

If you are famous, respected, or recognized for some activity, business, media, or artistic… it is also very likely that your number of followers will grow on its own.

But what happens when you are convinced that you have a lot to say and share, but you’re not famous, you can’t spend time on a blog, your comments are great but short, and what you share is selected content from others…?

If you do not have followers, there will be no one to share your publications, no one will see them, and you will be published only for yourself.

It would help if you had followers who read what you tweet; it’s that simple. But for many, it is not easy to get those followers, and those who have experienced it firsthand know what I am talking about.

# 2. Bad practices on Twitter

Due to their eagerness to get followers at all costs, many people carry out two types of actions on Twitter:

“If you follow me, I will follow you.” So, because yes. You are on my list of followers, and I am on yours. 

I don’t care exactly what you tell me, and, almost certainly, you also don’t watch what I tweet. But we both have many followers.

The false guru 

If you have many followers but follow a few people, it will seem that you are an essential person. For several days you follow hundreds and hundreds of people of all kinds and conditions to get followers. 

Then you unfollow them, staying with those who never unfollow anyone and increasing your balance.

Both actions are not recommended. Because, in reality, they do not contribute much: they have many followers who are not interested in what you say, and following many people who do not listen to them is useless. I would almost say that he is ridiculously childish.

The real influencers whose posts are attractive to many people get followers on their own merits. 

Pretending to be one of them can be a hit at first, but sooner or later, the process is discovered, and the false guru is exposed, as we will see later.

It is not about collecting followers like someone who contains stamps but, I insist, about being part of a community with common interests. 

It is about what you tell is of interest to a good amount of your followers and that these followers interact or share it with theirs. 

It is also about listening to what the people you follow are saying because there will always be someone who knows more than you, from whom you can learn, and through whom to share exciting material with your followers.

# 3. Follow referrers on Twitter

We all know that it’s impossible to read everything posted by the people we follow, which becomes much more difficult as the number increases. 

Search for the leaders of your sector, track them, and organize them in Twitter lists.

Here you have two guidelines to do it:

How to spot referrers on Twitter

We will call referents to those persons or entities that:

• publish their material; either
• They make a good selection of content for others and share it, or
• They are within our areas of interest or activity.
• There will be many who share or retweet similar content, but to consider their referents, pay attention to essential details. What:
• If they are the source.
• If they are the first to publish.
• If they do good content filtering.
• Yes, add extra value to publications
• Make lists of referrers on Twitter.

If you want to organize so much information and focus on what interests you most at all times, use Twitter lists: you can create up to 20 lists on Twitter, public or private, around specific topics or interests; add to them the people whose tweets you want to read.

Create a list with these references -or several if you move into different topics or areas of interest and from there, you can directly access their publications whenever you want.

# 4. How to get someone to follow you

It’s much simpler to get someone to follow you if, simply glancing at your profile or reading the information that Twitter publishes under your name in the listings, it considers that you have common interests or can contribute something.

Create a good Twitter Bio

A good photograph, if you are an attractive person, a spectacular background or funny comments can attract, 

I do not deny it, but to build or integrate into your community, it is much more effective for others to find specific keywords that catch your attention. Come on, a kind of “SEO” for the user’s eyes and brain. 😉

If, say, on Twitter, you read, post, or your business is about social media, journalism, or advertising, at first glance, the possible follower should find terms such as social media, 2.0, communication, journalist, marketing, or similar.

Highlighting one of them as a hashtag by putting the hash mark in front of it is fine. 

#Filling #everything #with #pads #is #counterproductive #because #it #overloads #the #message #and #nothing #will #get #attention (and this is equally applicable to the tweets you may produce).

Also, be modest as much as possible and avoid terms like ninja, guerrilla fighter, oracle, and other exotic words in your biography, and try to summarize who you are and what you want. Let others evaluate you as they get to know you.

Follow who interests you.

Once your profile is ready, it’s time to start “making” your little community on Twitter.

The good idea is to check the list of followers of your references because, in it, you will find people with interests similar to yours, suitable profiles for your commercial objectives if that is the case or both.

As we saw in the previous point, It will be easy for you to discover similar profiles if they have an adequate description. 

You can click on them and also look, in the summary window, at the last tweets they have published.

Do they seem attractive to you, similar to what you are looking for, or may they be interested in what you publish? 

So you follow them. With a bit of moderation, of course. In addition to the fact that Twitter will prohibit you from the mass following, you must manage your time and that of others. 

Some people do not look at their timeline every day or are on a trip or vacation, and you have to give them the opportunity to see that you follow them and decide to follow you.

On the other hand, if you stubbornly follow everyone you can, your objectivity may be reduced, and you may not correctly filter profiles. Quality is better than quantity.

Manage your time well

Thus, it is enough to have a little organization and perseverance at the beginning and spend some time finding a few people worth following throughout the day. 

Little by little, they will follow you if they like your profile and your tweets, and you will see how your list of followers is finally growing and the opportunities for many more people to read what you publish.

As I did. I, for example, started spending between 20 minutes and half an hour a day following users who responded to what I have been telling you here. 

I followed an average of 150 to 200 a day at the most, of which half followed me back.

Unfollow someone who doesn’t care about you

Well, you are starting to emulate people who, in some cases, will follow you but in others not. If you do not look for balance, it is most likely that your list of followers is well below the list of followers, and Twitter itself prohibits you from following more new people.

Without underestimating anyone and considering it objectively, if, after a while, those who do not follow you do not have a sufficient level of interest for you to be part of your lists of referrers, then they can be expendable.

Your community must be balanced: you follow those who interest you, those who engage you to follow you, and you also have some references that provide you with enough quality content.

Filter tools

There are lots of free utilities -or with good functionalities in their free version-, such as ManageFlitter or SocialBro (whose utility you can find in this post), for detecting which people do not follow you back and be able to correspond to them quickly and comfortably. 

In some cases, it is as easy as selecting them all at once with the mouse and pressing a button to let them follow them instead of going one by one.

Don’t worry about the referrers even if they don’t follow you because you will continue to see their posts as long as you have them on your lists.

How to spot fake gurus

Something that may happen and may already have occurred to you: from time to time, you will find certain people who start following you and whom you decide to follow back. 

Sometime later, you see that they have begun following you again, and you know that you are not following them. And this can be repeated several times with the same people.

No, it’s not a Twitter bug. They are the false gurus that we mentioned before:

• They follow you.
• You follow them back.
• They unfollow you to tip the scales in their favor.
• You inadvertently unfollow them when you do the “cleanup.”
• They inadvertently follow you again.

If it happens once or twice, it may be due to a simple decision change: they didn’t find you attractive, and then, after some publication or interaction, yes. 

If it happens three or more times, you have a follower hunting that tries to appear to be what it is not.

# 5. Cruising speed

No exact amount can tell when you have enough followers to relax or change your community-building activity.

For some, having 200,000 followers is not enough, while others dream of simply surpassing the mythical barrier of 2,000.

Each profile is different, and each need or objective too. A person can be a tweetstar with 100,000 or 100 followers, depending on the breadth of their environment.

You will know that you have a sufficient number of followers when the interactions with the rest of the users (the comments they make to you, the messages they send you, the retweets they make to you, the sincere #FF, the mentions…) become habitual and require more response and thanks from you and also when you notice that the number of people who start following you without you having followed them before increases.

Among all those people who have started to follow you of their own free will, you will also have to choose which of them you want to follow back—using the same criteria as for the search.

You can continue doing the same thing throughout your life. 

Still, it is very likely that you will stop searching at some point because your own activity on the network will bring you new referrers and enough followers to be satisfied with the scope of your publications and the quantity of information you receive from others.

You will undoubtedly continue to grow with your user profile, but more serenely and coherently.

conclusion

We have seen a sensible way to get followers on Twitter while discovering who to follow. Sensible because:

• It does not distort the meaning of social media based on uniting people with similar interests.
• It will not require excessive dedication of a time that you may not have.
• It can adapt to all types of profiles, whether personal or business.

Logically, everyone has their preferences and priorities. There will be those who choose to have fewer but more chosen followers and those who prefer a more significant number, even if the quality is not ideal.

It is important to remember that social networks are not anonymous entities with life and intelligence of their own. -although sometimes it seems like it and drives us crazy- but they are made up of people of flesh and blood.

Thinking about the way we would like them to reach us is, possibly, the means to find the best way to get others…

And you? How do you use Twitter? Have you got an exciting community? Are you curious about these techniques?