How I got 500 Followers in 1 Day

Making friends isn't easy in real life, so you wouldn't think that finding friends or "followers" on Twitter could be an easy task either.  But it can be!  I used the following method with a client's twitter account and got fantastic results!

Like with real friends, I found the key is to identify common interests.  So first things first, what is your twitter account's interest?  For example, let's say I'm starting a new website about cooking beef burgers.

Provide a backlog of information.  I would want to get a bunch of burger related content up in my history, to prove that I'm serious about my burgers.  I can find online content about burgers and tweet it, with a tiny URL (check out tiny.cc ) for optimum space usage in those 140 characters!



Now for the edge - I will tweet my own content (a blogpost? A video?) about a great broiling technique.  When twitter users see my account, this will be the most recent update and most likely click.

Now it's time to search for friends, soon to be followers.  Scroll to the bottom of your twitter homepage and click on the search link or enter summize.com into your URL bar.  Next, type in "Hamburger".  As you can see, all of the results will be people who have tweeted about the subject of hamburger.



Now I want to follow all of these people who have mentioned burgers in their recent tweets.  In exchange, my hope is that people will follow me, as I continue to share my burger knowledge.  Also utilize synonyms, for instance I should also search for "cheese burgers" and "beef burgers", maybe if I'm feeling daring search for "hot dogs" too!

I also found it helpful to find a relevant twitter account (or potential competitor?), and follow all your competiror's follwers.  For instance, I may follow all of this guy's followers:



Note - it's really important that I continue to share my burger knowledge.  No one wants to follow an account that is inactive; they'll drop me from their followers like a fly.
 
Important Numbers: On average, I have found that about 25% of the people I follow follow me.  And Twitter only permits you to follow 2,000 people in a given day.

In short: provide relevant content on your twitter account and then search for people talking about that content matter.