Get 1000 twitter followers without even following 1000 people

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If you know what twitter is, then you’d be interested in getting 1000 twitter followers. But I want to make it clear first, that this is not another trick or scheme to get 1000 twitter followers instantly. This is a strategy which requires time, effort, contribution and a lot of patience.

I got 1000 twitter followers from being a no-body and I follow less than 1000 people. Here’s why I need more twitter followers,

I’m a blogger and I need more free traffic
I need influenced audience
I need more friends who’ll leverage the traffic

This was my goal for 1000 twitter follower, at first you must know why you need that number and what you’re going to do with them?

The very common approach to 1000 followers

Here’s a common scenario of getting twitter followers,

Sign up for twitter as abcxyz.com
Set your profile pic: your logo/ a babe photo/ default pic
Description: We sell these products, see: abcxyz.com

Your first tweet: Hey, check out our new service at: abcxyz.com

Put all of your effort and time and follow 1000 people, hoping that they’ll follow back!

A very few people will follow you back like 20-30 people and after a few while,

Your account has been suspended! Here’s the explanation,

Twitter TOS is against spam activities like posting lots of links, following a lot of people in less time, mass messaging people etc.

Twitter people ignores,
Small companies and websites that tries to sell, sell and sell
If there are less updates and majority of them are links
Incomplete profile and the profile that sells

So you can see that the very common approach of getting 1000 followers is a failed attempt and you might lose your twitter brand (twitter.com/your-name)

My approach -the hard way of getting 1000 followers

One thing is set; I need 1000+ followers and only highly active and influenced twitter users of my field. Sign up and get started for twitter.

Create a personal profile

Instead of creating a profile for your company, try to create your own personal twitter profile. Just like I did, Tamal Anwar and who’s the author of BlogKori. At the same way you can create your own: “Your name” and you are the CEO of example.com. People love to read from a person, than a company. Use your own picture as the profile pic and add a short bio. When writing a bio, try to add your interests like reading books, social media, your favorite TV show etc.

Follow people

For having 1000 interested twitter followers, you have to be able to handle the same amount of people’s conversations. This is not a quick process; the key is to gain a regular amount of twitter followers everyday. For this, you have to follow some people everyday.

1. Follow your friends

Your friends on twitter are the first priority. Follow your friends, web neighbors and co-workers.

2. Follow the people you love

There are lots of people you know and you’re a fan of. Search for them and follow. From movie stars, to celebrities, from experts to the people you support.

3. Follow recommended

When you follow someone, take a look at the people they are following. Follow them. On Fridays, people recommend their favorite people on twitter, follow them too.

4. Follow back the people who follow you

When someone follows you, take some time to know about them and follow them.

5. Follow randomly

Follow some people randomly which will allow you to find some really interesting people. Search on twitter for keywords and you’ll find new people to follow.

Un-follow people

To get 1000 interested people, you have to un-follow some people too. The key is to have the maximum mutual followings.

1. Un-follow automatically

TweetLater is a service which will allow you to un-follow those people who have un-followed you. Those people didn’t found you interested and this is why you should move on.

2. Un-follow the annoying people:

When you’ll see that some people’s tweets are irrelevant and some people are only posting self promotional links, un-follow those people.

Tweet regularly

The most important part of all is to tweet regularly. The more you appear on twitter, the more the people will read your tweets and click on your link. It’ll make you appeared more on public timeline + other people’s timeline which will help you to get more followers.

1. Tweet every time

Get a twitter client like twitterfox (for browser) or twhirl (for desktop) and tweet regularly. A lot of people have written a lot about how to write highly optimized and scientific methods of tweets, but that’s non-sense! Twitter is simple and the tip is to write as you’re talking to your friends.

2. Share your favorites

Share your links and your friend’s links. Share news and what are you doing right now. Share some important message and it’ll benefit others.

3. Reply to tweets

A lot people in your timeline will ask questions and request for opinions. Reply to them about what you think. They and other people will pay attention to you because you’re paying attention to them.

4. Re-tweet

Instead of writing your tweet, copy some other people’s tweet and it’s called a re-tweet.

5. Throw questions

Throw questions to your friends and ask for answers. Throw polls to vote from twtpoll.com.

6. Monitor

Monitor your timeline and what they are talking about. Use twitter search and look who are talking about you, your blog/ company.

Getting organic twitter followers

If you do all of the things regularly, you’ll eventually get more followers than the number of people you follow. Here are some more tips,

1. Public timeline

The more you twitter, the more you’ll appear on the public timeline. That’s a great source of some organic followers.

2. Re-tweets

Your tweets will be re-tweeted too and the way your name will appear on other people’s profile.

3. Your site

Add a twitter link/ widget on your blog and ask your visitors to follow you on twitter.

4. #hash tags

#hash tags or the keywords starting with a hash (#) get’s more priority on twitter search. Write a tweet and add the hash tag keyword which will make your tweet appear on search terms like: #bushfire, #xmas, #obama etc.

5. Tweet with the latest post

In wordpress, there are lots of plugins which automatically tweets about your new post. This is a cool way for traffic and followers.

6. Auto direct messages

Use TweetLater service and enable the auto DM feature. This sends a DM to your new followers. This could be a thank you message or the link to your site.

A lot of hardwork, isn’t it?

Yes, off course! This is a hard way of getting 1000 influenced followers and it’ll require patience. But the benefit is you’re getting some really active people with this process.

What are the real benefits?

Twitter is one of the greatest gems of the web 2.0. If they decide to take charge from brands for using it, the big brands will be happy to pay. So try to think why twitter is so much popular and how people are brining out the best from their followers -and that’s all for free! This is the unique way to send you message to a number of audience in real time, no matter they are in office, train or in home.