Friday, September 18, 2009

How To Build a Huge Twitter Following

No doubt you have heard of Twitter. Chances are, you are already using it
in that case, please follow me at http://twitter.com/stfmonitor ;)
Why would I want followers? For the same reason I want a ton of blog readers - it can make you money. In this lesson, I'm going to show you have to build a huge following on Twitter.

If You Want Someone To Follow You, Follow Them First

Have you ever heard the old saying, "If you want someone to smile at you, smile at them first"?
Well, the same concept holds true for Twitter. If you want people to follow you, follow them first. If your interest is inline with their interest, then the chance of them following you back is quite high.

You shouldn't following just everyone. You want followers who are interested in what you're interested in. So the key is to find those people and follow them. Then engage them to build the relationship. How do you find targeted followers?

The Twitter Search

The best way to find targeted Twitter users is with the Twitter Search. Enter the keywords for the type of followers you're after and the search will find users talking about that topic in real time. Follow everyone that shows up in the search results.

When those users see you following them, they will check out your Twitter profile to see some of your tweets. If the tweets are targeted with their interests, which is should be, the chances are high that they will follow you back. To increase your chance of a follow back, you can engage the users in conversation or maybe retweet a few of their tweets.

While we would like everyone we follow to follow us back, that won't happen. However, because of the highly targeted nature of this method, you should be able to get a 50% conversion rate.

Twitter list builder
The above is basically how I built my followers list.
As you can imagine, doing this all manually is extremely time consuming. Fortunately a program call Twitter list builder will automate the entire process for you. TLB will automatically add 1000's of new followers to your Twitter account.
And it's 100% FREE! is the best Twitter automation tool in the business. I've used it, and continue to use it, to build a huge Twitter following.
http://twitterlistbuilder.com/stfmonitor

Unfollow The Users Who Don't Follow Back

After 48 hours (or whatever time limit you set), you need to unfollow everyone who didn't follow you back. The reason you need to do this is because Twitter places limits on how many people you can follow. Once you hit that limit, you can't follow any more until you have more followers or remove people you are following.

To unfollow people who are not following you, use http://TwitterFollower.com. The site has a mass unfollow button that will unfollow everyone who's not following you. This will clear up follow room so you can repeat the above steps. Twitter Follower also has a database of users who will follow you if you follow them so it's a great way to get more followers.