Want to know how to increase your Twitter follower count to 1000 followers? There are multiple strategies to drive more followers and here I am sharing some of the best ones that worked for me in expanding follower count on my Twitter account.
1. Upload high-quality content regularly.
You will probably hear lots of social media experts suggesting various ideas regarding how often you must tweet daily. Some will recommend not to post more than 4 times per day while others say that you can post content every eight minutes per day. As per my experience, the right posting schedule is 30 times daily. I have experimented with multiple posting frequencies and found that 30 tweets each day is the best strategy. I post content almost every 30 minutes from 6 AM to 10 PM with some more tweets in the middle of the night.
2. Develop long-term relationships with loyal followers.
Remember, just like in real life, people on social media will like and follow you when you help them out. The same thing happens on Twitter. To let your potential followers read your content, click your links, join your email list, share your content, and develop long-lasting relationships with your channel, they must know, trust, and like you.
To get started, share content from people that you follow or who follow you on Twitter. Do not strive hard to target the leading influencers within your niche because they will hardly notice you on the platform, especially when you are a beginner. Reaching out to these influencers might be considered a long-term goal. Developing a good relationship with users with 5000-20,000 followers can be easier and helpful in gaining more Twitter followers for better growth.
When I was looking for the audience that I wish to develop a relationship with, I was considering people who have highly engaged Twitter users, regularly post high-quality content, and belong to the same industry. Besides this, I may also consider someone that I appreciate the most and wish to learn from.
Proven tips on how to engage the real audience on Twitter.
Alongside posting your own content, retweeting something that others shared, can be the proven tip to develop a strong relationship on Twitter and engage users. When you find any user that you wish to build a bond with, retweet their relevant post with your positive and interactive comment.
After retweeting their content, see what ways they respond to it. If you receive a good response, it signals that they are the right users or creators to develop a relationship with. On the other hand, if they don’t respond favorably, then it is good to move on to others because it might be difficult to develop any relationship with them on Twitter.
Note that just retweeting and developing a relationship with potential users is not enough. Just like relationships in the real world, you need to give your best to strengthen and maintain that strong bond. Engage with those users more frequently to increase your Twitter engagement rate at a faster pace.
Besides retweeting, you can practice the following tricks to attract more followers and let them know you, like, and trust you:
- Visit their blogging website, search for older content, and share it with others.
- Ask them a relevant question, mainly when it is a follow-up to one of their tweets that you have retweeted.
- Commend on their blog, ensuring you use the same username as you have used on your Twitter account.
- Answer a question responsibly that they asked on Twitter.
3. Structure your tweets properly.
You might be thinking that it is easier to tweet content so why should you focus on structuring your tweets? Yes, you can tap the button from the blog article and it will quickly tweet the title and a link. But, to get good results and higher engagement, it is important to understand that there is a specific time and place for everything. Rather than filling up your queue to keep posting some content on your page, it is recommended to structure your tweets properly.
I will show you the importance of structuring tweets with an example of my tweets. Instead of simply tweeting the title and photo, I copied and pasted a short, relevant quote from the post or simply asked a related question. After analyzing my different tweets, I found that these tweets receive more engagement.
Moreover, it also shows the user whose post I am sharing that I go through the content and value it to share that. It also shows genuine engagement with their posts. I realized that it helps me in getting higher interaction with users, generally, those that I want to build a relationship with.
After adding a quote or question, I put two or three related hashtags to make the audience discover the post and click it. At last, I mention the author because it helps tweets to appear in their notifications. The mention of the author is very important because once the influencer sees it, they will interact with it or might be interested in developing a relationship.