How can you gain more followers on Twitter? How do you expand your network on Twitter? These are common questions for brands looking to grow their Twitter presence or small businesses trying to navigate this Twitter “thing.” For many small businesses wanting to grow their accounts quickly or appear larger than they are, the old solution was to buy followers. SHAME ON YOU!
Fair Ways to Increase Twitter Followers
Honestly, buying Twitter followers is a bad idea. You won’t have anyone to engage with, and your follower-to-following ratio will be out of balance. When a real user checks your account and notices this gap, they’ll quickly figure it out and won’t follow you. Why would they? You won’t engage with them. It’s clear you’re not on Twitter to create real connections with those fake numbers.
The best way to increase Twitter followers is to act like a human and follow other humans. Follow MANUALLY. If you want an increase in Twitter followers, sharing articles that you find useful, with a note about why will help. Looking at the accounts that are following you and determining if they are worth following will help. Talking to other people behind those accounts will help! This is called engagement. People want to talk to other people. Not robots. They don’t want people looking for the easy way out, either!
Ethical Ways to Increase Twitter Followers
There are a ton of tools, though, that can help make this a lot easier. Finding followers doesn’t have to be all manual and it doesn’t have to be time consuming on your end. You just have to be smart about it.
My team and I have been using CrowdFire with a ton of success. This tool allows us to search and automatically follow accounts on Twitter with filters. Filters like location filters and keyword filters. These are awesome. Of course, this will lead to following other robotic accounts, but you can also use this tool to unfollow inactive accounts, which many bots are.
Using Twitter search is another great way to find followers. You can search by keyword or phrase and location. You can even save the search so that you can use it again later without having to enter all of the criteria a second (or third, or fourth time). And by following more accounts, you’ll begin to increase Twitter followers on your own account, as well.
Tweetchats are another way to find more people to follow and thus, get more followers! By joining in and participating, you are showing other people that you are real and have a personality. If you share enough knowledge, you’ll gain followers. But you have to actually participate! Many people will wait in the “shadows” of a chat and they may follow you if they think you are a resource, even without having interacted with you.
Of course, if all of this is too much for you, contact us today and we’ll discuss the best Twitter strategy for you and your company!