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- The Twitter basics
- How to grow your account to 100 followers
- How to grow your account to 1000 followers
- What you shouldn’t do to grow your account to 1000+ Twitter followers
- Growing beyond 1000+ followers
- Grow your Twitter account organically
- How any Twitter newbie can grow their followers
The Twitter basics
To start with, you need to set up a trustworthy profile so that when people visit your page, they don’t close it immediately.
Before you do anything about your profile, however, you need to decide what you want to tweet about. Hopefully, you already know. Money, health, food, tech, etc. – choose your niches. Pick topics that are close to you or that you know at least something about.
Your handle (your Twitter account name) should ideally reflect what you tweet about. Many people just use their full name, but you can use the topics you tweet about, too.
Upload a personal profile picture, preferably of your face. Make it recognizable from a mile away – you need to stand out with it!
Upload a Twitter header picture as well. It’s what people they see at the top of your profile once they click through. It could be a quote, something about you, a picture of yourself – anything except the default blue background. Use a service like canva.com to create a Twitter header for free.
Next, fill in your Twitter bio. Why should people follow you? What do you write about? Remember that people need to click through to your account before they can follow you, so you need to give them a reason to! How can you help them? That’s what your Twitter followers care about – themselves!
This is what my bio looks like:
Finally, start to get some tweets lined up. You don’t want an empty profile if people do show up.
Only if someone likes your tweet and your bio will they click through to your profile.
The next thing people will do is look at your timeline, so make sure to “pin” your best Tweet at the top. This should be a Tweet people can relate to, but it also needs to be something you show off with a little bit. Try to pin a tweet that already has some engagement.
How to grow your account to 100 followers
The first thing you need to do is get that zero off your scoreboard quick! No one wants to be the first to follow you. The easiest way to gain Twitter followers is to join our Facebook group here. Mention your Twitter handle and follow people back.
I don’t recommend you do this after 100 Twitter followers, however. This is just to get something on the scoreboard and probably won’t get you a lot of engagement. It will nevertheless make it easier for people on Twitter to follow you, since you will already have a following.
Don’t expect these early Twitter followers to just stick around. They could leave you just like that! If you want them to stay, YOU have to invest in the relationship. If you find matching profiles, engage with them. Comment on their tweets, like them, retweet them. You won’t gain any Twitter followers for it, but you’ll just gain a follower base that will stay loyal.
This process should take you about a week. But careful: don’t follow 100 accounts in a day or Twitter will ban you!
How to grow your account to 1000 followers
Growing to 100 Twitter followers isn’t the hard part – getting from 100 to 1000 is. This stage takes the most time and the most work.
Start following really big accounts with 100k+ Twitter followers who tweet a couple of times a day on topics that align with your topics and niches. Make sure to only follow only big accounts that have a lot of engagement, such as 10+ retweets per tweet on average.
You’re going to use their engagement to benefit yourself.
After you follow an account, you can set an “alarm” whenever they tweet. For this tactic to work (best), however, you need to be fast!
As soon as you get a push notification that one of your big accounts tweeted, you need to jump on Twitter and look up the tweet.
Whatever you do must add value
Don’t say stuff like: “Yeah, I agree,” “Hell yeah,” “Great stuff” etc. Everyone can do that! You’re not just everyone. You want to grow your account – you want to show others that you know your stuff.
As quickly as you can, try to come up with something of value. If you can’t within the first 10 minutes of the tweet, don’t add a comment. Better to be silent than to look stupid.
Look at what I did here:
I commented on his tweet in under 2 minutes after he shared it. Within one hour after my tweet, I already landed 2 retweets and 18 likes.
After one day, I had 6 retweets and 50+ likes.
This one tweet landed me 10 new followers. You might not think that’s a lot, but it is! Rinse and repeat this 3 times a day and you’ll have 1000 Twitter followers within 30 days.
Follow about 10 – 50 big accounts. I don’t know what your schedule is, but you can spend a lot of time on Twitter. Just make sure that most of your time on Twitter is spent commenting on big accounts!
If you can comment on big accounts 10 – 15 times a day, you will see your follower count increase by 10 – 20 Twitter followers a day. Sometimes, when you’re lucky, even a bit more. Other times, fewer. This means it will take you about 2 months to get to 1000 followers, with an average of 1 -2 hours a day spent on Twitter if you’re quick and comment fast.
That’s why it’s so important to follow big accounts that align perfectly with your niches. It makes it easier to reply and you’ll get more followers from them because their followers also follow the big accounts for the same reason that they might follow you.
What you shouldn’t do to grow your account to 1000+ Twitter followers
Don’t tweet into thin air – you don’t have any followers! You don’t have anyone who can engage your content, so keep the number of tweets you do down to below 5 a day, or even between 1 – 3 – that’s more than enough.
Don’t tag (big) accounts in your tweets. They know what you’re doing and it won’t work! You won’t get a Like, you won’t get a retweet – you will only get blocked.
Stop using the follow-for-follow tactic. It’s not a sustainable way to grow! It’s not natural and you get no engagement for it. Accounts that have a bigger engagement rate will get more impressions from their tweets. No engagement also means fewer people who do follow you see your tweets.
Do not EVER buy Twitter followers. Not just because it’s against the rules of Twitter, but also because of the same reason the follow-for-follow method shouldn’t be used after you have 100 followers.
Buying Twitter followers will hurt your future growth rate. The bots/fake accounts will literally act as dead weight. They decrease your average engagement rate. That’s why it’s also not a good reason to follow-for-follow a lot. This is just meant to get you off the ground.
Your engagement rate will drop. SPAM/bot accounts can be easily identified. You’re making yourself vulnerable to a ban. Don’t do it!
Growing beyond 1000+ followers
If you’re really serious about your Twitter game you should automate a lot of aspects of it. For instance, schedule your tweets once a day so you don’t have to come back to Twitter to tweet. Hypefury is great for this and much more!
You can schedule tweets, easily create threads and even schedule retweets and auto retweets.
When you leave comments to big accounts, it’s also a really good idea to retweet your own reply. This will amplify your own tweet towards your Twitter followers. It will create more engagement on the tweet and, in turn, create even more visibility for your comment. More people will see it, follow you. etc. Rinse and repeat!
Increase engagement on your tweets
By now, you have a small audience that can amplify your message. But if you treat your audience as sheep, you’ll lose out on a lot. There are only so many retweets and likes you’ll get before people will start to wonder why they’re amplifying your message.
Most people won’t think about this, but people who are serious about Twitter want to be taken seriously, too!
Just like in real life, you need to build relationships. Comment on other people’s tweets, like their stuff, etc. Show a real interest in them and they will be more likely to amplify your message. Them amplifying your message is the number one goal you should have in order to grow your Twitter account organically.
If you have less than 1000 followers, you’ll get the occasional like and retweet. Once you’re above that, growth is just like compound interest. All the followers you already have will amplify you and increase your organic growth rate.
Schedule your tweets
If you’re like me, you’d spend 3+ hours on Twitter every day. I don’t think you want to do that! Even if you have something to sell on Twitter, it would only make sense to set up your shop seriously after you reach 2k – 3k followers.
Twitter is my job. I love Twitter and Twitter is loving me back in return. But for all normal human beings, you should limit your time on Twitter – at least until you have over 2000 followers.
Using a scheduling tool like Hypefury can save you a lot of time AND will increase your engagement rate and follower count at the same time. You can start right now and enjoy a 7-day free trial!
Once a day, a couple of times a week, I sit down to fill up my schedule. This is way more effective than thinking about what to tweet about 10x a day! You’d waste a lot of time.
Getting in the writing vibe takes time – you need to relax, set your mind straight. It can easily take 30 minutes.
I mostly tweet about productivity and how to grow an online business on Twitter. Like anyone, I don’t have inspiration all the time. I get about 20% – 40% of my tweets from what I go through on a daily basis, and the rest simply from books.
Open a book you like that’s about your niche. If you don’t have one, buy one NOW! You should always be learning, always be a student. If you want to learn more about building a bigger audience on Twitter, download our free course on Gumroad.
Start flipping pages and when you land on something interesting, see how you can use what’s in the book and relate it more towards who you are and what you tweet about.
Grow your Twitter account organically
Don’t use a Twitter growth bot to help you auto-follow and auto-reply. This is the easiest behavior to detect for Twitter and you’ll get a one-way ticket to Twitter jail! They’re really easy on banning accounts and you’d have to start all over just like that. You don’t want to throw away months of work just because you wanted to see a larger follower number! In the end, the number of Twitter followers doesn’t buy you anything.
It’s easy to use bots, but it will work against you in the long run
I’ve seen a lot of accounts with 100k+ Twitter followers who don’t have any engagement on their accounts. For that reason, they can’t “sell” on that account! No engagement means no clicks to your own business, and it will also not attract any advertisers interested in working with you.
Five years ago, you could get away with having a big fake following; these days, not so much. The marketers who go about influencer marketing aren’t stupid. They won’t even start a conversation if they smell your following is fake.
There are a lot of Twitter growth services out there that only give you one option: to buy Twitter followers through them. If you just want a big number of Twitter followers next to your name, go for it, but besides a few bragging rights, you won’t get anything out of it. It just costs money and will hurt you in the long run. You won’t be able to build a big audience as quickly as you’d like because of all the dead weight!
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How any Twitter newbie can grow their followers
- Follow people you know on Twitter;
- Engage with them and anyone in your niche;
- Tweet consistently rather than just frequently;
- Add value to the timelines of big accounts;
- Connect with new followers in the DMs;
- Have followers so people can see your tweets;
- Follower growth goes slow at first; stay consistent;
- Don’t use tweets with links;
- People follow people, not tweets; show yourself.
