There are a number of strategies that you can apply to attract a greater number of followers on Twitter.
Growth will generally be slower at first, then is likely to snowball as you attract greater and greater numbers of followers.
In the first instance identify your niche market leaders. Follow these accounts and then follow their followers. Here you already have access to a huge number of accounts who are all looking for further information about your niche.
Ensure you are following around 50 people per day - in line with the Twitter policy on following - until you have accrued 3,000 followers in each of your accounts.
In addition to following high numbers of different accounts, it is essential that you are providing high-quality content to your followers. To assist with your social media management, we advise using one or more social media management tools such as Buffer, TweetDeck or Dlvr.it
We've included a few other key tips and hints to increase your Twitter following - no spammy tactics, no bots:
- Optimize your Twitter bio - look at best practice from market leaders in your niche
- Use a combination of links and images in your tweets
- Use relevant hashtags in your posts to increase the reach of your posts
- Tweet frequently quality, valuable content that you would like to see yourself
- Optimize your posting time
- Promote your Twitter account on your other sites: Blogger, your website, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
- Add a 'follow' button on your website or blog
- Retweet popular posts and posts that you enjoy
- Engage with your followers - send messages, start conversations, like and share their posts
- Identify followers within your network