How to get more Twitter followers?

[Fury]

So I'm wondering, how I can increase my twitter followers. Anyone have lots of tips??? or links?

I try to find people to meet, and be friends with them and grow my network, but it can be difficult.

What method have you found that works?

[Dan]

Well I've gotten ID's twitter account close to 300 which is up from 200 in about...2 days?

I go through other people's followers looking for who has a low ratio of following -> followers. (lots of followers while following very few = high ratio) So I look for those with a ratio close to 1 and just go through a bunch of those people and watch them. To find these people I look at the current page I'm on and look at who they are following. The person who has the best twitter icon (sticks out the most from the group of followers) tends to watch others back. So I continue clicking the best icon, look at their ratio, and decide whether or not to watch them.

Then it's wash rinse repeat for the most part...and it's worked well so far.

[Brian]

Yes conversation is good, but don't go tooooo fast (it may alert spammers), and make sure you talk to some people while you're adding people.

The secret is getting conversations going with people.

[Dan]

Conversations don't add people.

[NicolasKohr]

No you talk, and then you add, makes it more likely the guy actually listens to your crap.

I see a lot of twitter people who say the most uninteresting things... sometimes I wanna unfollow them.

[Acekin]

You can use some of the internet marketing tools. It will let you spread widely your twitter account in a time. Just like what my friend did.

[Dan]

If you want to get more watchers that actually mean something (not just a high number by following tons of people who don't read what you post) you can follow the followers of popular sites in your category. For example, if you're a site who makes tutorials for photoshop, go follow all the followers of psdtut's twitter account. When they see you followed them, most of them will look at what you post - perhaps your site, and if they like what you post, they'll follow back. That will give you a genuine follower.

[Vassily Ivanski]

I think the best way is to constantly talk directly to certain people about their tweets, to get them as followers etc.

[Dan]

I guess that's good if you want like 5 followers, but good luck getting a lot. Relationships take too long to form

[debrah.h48]

You’re interested in increasing your Twitter followers. You want more people reading your updates. It’s not difficult to build a prominent profile but I think it’s important to start with the right understanding. This is the first thing you need to know: It’s not really about how you tweet, what you say or who you talk to but who you are.

There have been several articles on the topic of growing your Twitter presence: many of them focus on teaching you how to use Twitter by providing value in order to increase your Twitter following. While good points were made, I want to offer my perspective on this topic.

Take a look at this list of Twitter users with the most followers and you’ll see that almost everyone on it is famous or well known for reasons other than Twitter. For example, you’ll notice that the top 10 users are mainly all people who own popular websites/businesses and brands or have established a reputation through their involvement in different activities.

[Vassily Ivanski]

Yeah, celebrities don't have to struggle much, neither do popular websites.
I'm wondering about those twitter accounts owned by people who aren't famous at all, how they got so many followers.

[jeanlerye]

I am also wondering on how I could be able to get more Twitter followers, as if others had done. Since, I had seen that there is a need to be socialized to others and perhaps to make conversations to more. In that way, we can have Twitter followers as many as we can persuade people.

[Brian]

Yeah, it's a matter of constantly tweeting, for a long time, getting directly involved with people with direct contact.

Think of Twitter, as a forum, with no threads/posts, just PMs.