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Gaining followers on Twitter

The power of Twitter is in your imagination ... and in the number of followers you have. It’s very logical, the person with 1000 followers tends to have a greater potential for influence than the person with 10 followers.

So how do you go about building your network?

People have dreamt up a variety of techniques for this purpose. Many people employ controversial methods, like this pyramid scheme for Twitter, which has drawn lots of criticism from the Twitter community. This blogger compared it to steroids in baseball, begging us to “resist the urge to be a Twittering A-Rod and don’t ruin the game for the rest of us.“

Others, like myself, prefer the slow grind of finding and following people manually. Here are a couple of methods that I’ve used to build my Twitter following.

1. Put your Twitter address everywhere! In your email footer, on your business card, on your website, your blog, everywhere! Ted Murphy has taken this to a whole new level.

2. Find and follow people with similar interests. Goto http://search.twitter.com and search for keywords relevant to your interests and follow the people you find. Some will reciprocate your follow. But for those that don’t, send them an @ message that they might find valuable. If you engage them in a conversation that is interesting, you will gain a follower.

What are the methods that you use to gain followers on Twitter?

Posted by Jeremy Hilton on Mar. 25, 2009

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