Are You Posting Good Information on Twitter for Your Followers?
So You have twitter account, have followed a few people and are gaining followers, time to add some value and meet new people. (Note, for the first few weeks I suggest following people in your niche or interested in your niche so that you build a base of people to build relationships with.)
The whole follow people and get followed back practice, in mass, was not very appealing to me before but I now mix up the techniques that I use to get followers. We will talk more about that later. Today it is all content.
When I got started on twitter I was posting about business and my personal life. I was pretty boring posting random activities from my day. Maybe half a dozen to a dozen tweets per day. So then I started posting some favorite quotes. I spent Sunday night getting all of my quotes scheduled for the week. I was sending out a few quotes a day, not a bad place to start.
I realized that I was earning a lot more followers by posting famous quotes than I had been gaining by Tweeting about myself. So there it was, I was adding more value and the response was incredible. The more valuable my Tweets the more followers I gained.
I did the quote thing for a couple of weeks as I learned more and more about Twitter and what my followers wanted to read about. So I started posting links to my favorite bloggers. Once I began Tweeting links to great content my number of followers grew exponentially. I have always followed my favorite topics and all of my niche keywords using Google Alerts. So I began to put Google Alerts to work.
Every morning I read through my Google Alerts and Tweeted links to my favorite blog posts and articles. I was using Tweetlater to schedule all of these great stories and was getting more followers than I was [getting before].
When I saw that posting to my favorite content was working I began posting to my own content. As my original blog content grew and grew the more I posted linked to my own site. And the more often I blogged the more Twitter followers I got and the more readers I acquired for my blog.
So I was testing different content and started to find out what the Twitter community was most interested in.
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