Get More Twitter Followers With Your Own Twitter List
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Well here at My Twitter Tactics we are always trying to bring twitter news and of course twitter tips and tactics to our readers. We know we are a little late on this one, but we wanted to address the new twitter “list” feature all the same. We are not sure if twitter will keep the Twitter List around forever, for right now it is still in beta and they are looking for as much feedback as they can get to see if users are interested in it becoming a permanent fixture on the site or not.
So, if you like this new feature you should make sure to have your voice heard and chime in on the site to let the owners know that you want it to stay. If not let em know all the same, twitter is a community based site and your voice does count!
What Is The Twitter List?
The twitter list is nothing more than a group on twitter. You can create a new twitter list from your account and add who ever you like to it, this seems to be a new way to create miniature focus groups on your account. This new feature adopts the same “one way follow” ability that twitter has created with there original site. You get a new extension type web address that includes the name of your group in the address to keep it juicy for the search engines. People can follow your list without being invited, unless you mark it as private, then you get total control over who is there and who is not.
How Do I Get More Follower By Making A Twitter List
OK..OK you may not get more followers exactly, but this new feature definitely gives you an opportunity to get more people viewing your tweets and raises your syndication power on the twitter site and off. By this we believe you can use this new tool to assist in the growth of your twitter following to an astronomical amount.
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My Twitter Tactics First Twitter List
We decided to join the party by making our own twitter list. We did not know where to start so we just created on that includes some of our followers on twitter. You can find out Twitter Tactics Friends list here. Feel free to follow the list or follow us!
To Success,
Nick Simpson
How Many Twitter Followers Do You Have? Who Cares!
Yes, I know that the title of this article is bold and almost rude. That is the point! Many people on twitter think that having 10,000 twitter followers or more is going to make them money, make them important or even make them an authority on Twitter. This is so far from the truth it is actually a lauchable matter.
Why Having A Gazillion Followers Will Not Make You an Automatic Success on Twitter
The number of people following you really has nothing to do with your success or lack there of on twitter. This has to be the biggest misconseption of new Twitter marketers that I have run across to date. I know everybody loves to see big numbers under their name, but when it comes down to it, these numbers mean a lot more if you know how you got them.
By this I mean, if you go jump on every viral Twitter Follower site you come across, 2 things happen:
- You are folling the same people, everybody who went to that site is following everybody who went to that site! Does that make you have more pull with these people? No, not at all and in fact, probably less. People going to these sites are looking for one thing and that is followers, they have no interest in you or what you are tweeting about.
- You have now effectively taken away what ever good name you had on twitter by filling your tweets with spam from these sites. Most of these sites send out a rediculus ammount of self serving messages. Do you really want to promote the same junk? I hope not.
Twitter Follower : Quality Over Quantity
The ONLY way to get more results from your twitter following, is to assure that you are adding people who know you or at least have similar interest. Adding a “Follow Me” link on your main web site or blog is a great way to get real interested followers, because these followers have already seen your site and know what to expect and in most cases will be hungry for the information you are sharing. If you are on many social networks, let all your friends and fans on all these sites know how to follow you on twitter as well, these will become quality followers as well.
If you only build your following by automated resources, you will have built a pretty weak army, there are some follow systems that allow you to choose topics of interest and these fall in the middle in my mind.
Twitter Testing and Results
Just to assure myself that I was not just blowing smoke with this post, I recently setup a few accounts on twitter. I setup 2 that I hand picked the followers, make direct contact with each and built the way I suggest you do and I setup 2 accounts with autofollow twitter followers only. I am sure you can guess the results and in this case the 90/10 rule really did prove itself.
I send out one promo tweet each day to all accounts, among other real messages. I saw only about 10% the number of clickthroughs come from my auto follow accounts. If you are an internet marketer trying to use twitter to get clicks and get paid, I think you get the picture.
Taking the time to grow your twitter account really does pay off! If you want big numbers, go auto follow til you hearts content, but don’t expect these guys to pay the bills for you!
To Success,
Nick Simpson
