Advice for Twits
There are a lot of people giving advice on how to increase your following on Twitter. They have articles, websites and some even have an application that they claim will help. I actually came across a few that try to sell these products to new comers. I have gone through a lot of them and I am sure many of you will agree that they do not work. Sure, they sometimes have great advice and ideas. But mostly they DO NOT WORK - (Please correct me if I am wrong here and point me to an article or website that actually has been proven to help. Leave the details in the comments section below).
The problem is that many people, who are new to Twitter [http://pragmites.com/blog/tag/twitter-basics/], are excited by all the hype surrounding it and will invest in the above mentioned ideas to drive traffic to their websites. Maybe some of them have actually worked in the past but my guess is that something else contributed to the success. It would probably be the quality and quantity of tweets. Either way my point is this - it is unwise to follow an idea without understanding why it will work, or rather how it will work.
When I first started my account on Twitter, I was completely confused. I read many articles, some very expertly written and others that were actually quite silly and obvious. I watched tutorials and read notes. I speculate that out of all the information that I accessed to further my understanding of Twitter, only 10% was useful. But what did help me, was the fact that I sat logged in to Twitter for hours on end, reading other people's tweets and clicking randomly.
My Twitter account was actually created a while back and I had been ignoring it, but when I did start to pay attention to it, my numbers suddenly increased. Believe me, I was stuck on 800 or so followers and after my efforts this has been steadily increasing and now it is up to around 1500. This is not a huge number, I know, but considering the time it took to increase, I would say it is considerable.
So what did I do? Well like I said, I started to pay more attention to my account. I followed and unfollowed. I checked other application sites for Twitter and found some really good ones. I weighed the pros and cons of different types of tweets that one can post - this is quite interesting actually and depending on what you are using your account for, can be very important. I looked around at other people's accounts - those with thousands of followers and those with just a few. I retweeted to an acceptable degree (over doing it will do more harm as you would look like a spammer), and I even used the trending topics in my tweets. All these things are what I believe did the work. It does take time, yes, but it is also the only thing that is closest to a guarantee of success.
I hope I have made some sense in the above. I wrote this so that people are not being misled into believing that there are quick formulae to success, because there aren't. It takes hard work, trial and many mistakes to get it right.
If this has been helpful please let me know. Good luck and if you need any advice be sure to ask.
The problem is that many people, who are new to Twitter [http://pragmites.com/blog/tag/twitter-basics/], are excited by all the hype surrounding it and will invest in the above mentioned ideas to drive traffic to their websites. Maybe some of them have actually worked in the past but my guess is that something else contributed to the success. It would probably be the quality and quantity of tweets. Either way my point is this - it is unwise to follow an idea without understanding why it will work, or rather how it will work.
When I first started my account on Twitter, I was completely confused. I read many articles, some very expertly written and others that were actually quite silly and obvious. I watched tutorials and read notes. I speculate that out of all the information that I accessed to further my understanding of Twitter, only 10% was useful. But what did help me, was the fact that I sat logged in to Twitter for hours on end, reading other people's tweets and clicking randomly.
My Twitter account was actually created a while back and I had been ignoring it, but when I did start to pay attention to it, my numbers suddenly increased. Believe me, I was stuck on 800 or so followers and after my efforts this has been steadily increasing and now it is up to around 1500. This is not a huge number, I know, but considering the time it took to increase, I would say it is considerable.
So what did I do? Well like I said, I started to pay more attention to my account. I followed and unfollowed. I checked other application sites for Twitter and found some really good ones. I weighed the pros and cons of different types of tweets that one can post - this is quite interesting actually and depending on what you are using your account for, can be very important. I looked around at other people's accounts - those with thousands of followers and those with just a few. I retweeted to an acceptable degree (over doing it will do more harm as you would look like a spammer), and I even used the trending topics in my tweets. All these things are what I believe did the work. It does take time, yes, but it is also the only thing that is closest to a guarantee of success.
I hope I have made some sense in the above. I wrote this so that people are not being misled into believing that there are quick formulae to success, because there aren't. It takes hard work, trial and many mistakes to get it right.
If this has been helpful please let me know. Good luck and if you need any advice be sure to ask.
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