*Tweet*Tweet*….Tips For Gaining Followers on Twitter.

You have set up your Twitter account....now what? So how do you gain followers? It is probably time to make a big decision as it will affect the way in which you use Twitter considerably. That decision relates to quality versus quantity. If you are into marketing, then quantity of followers will be important to you. It's like building a list. But if you want to keep things personal, then quality of followers will be what you need. Either way, the next step will be to find some people to follow.

You need to first be aware that rushing out and following a heap of people can make you look like a potential Twitter spammer.  Build your following base slowly. As time goes on, if you are chasing quantity, then you will be able to add more at a time, but initially I would suggest you stick to 50 for a start. The reason for this is that when you follow people, they will most likely follow you back. Many people don't do this automatically, although some do, particularly in the internet marketing space.  Some people will actually go and look at your Twitter home page to decide if you are worth following or not in their eyes.  This is where your profile and the settings that you took all the trouble to do will stand you in good stead.

Start getting some tweets into the system now. On the Twitter home page, it asks What You Are Doing.  Quite frankly many people don't care until you have built a relationship with them as a result of following.  But there are some good ways to get started. Follow some blogs that you are interested in via an RSS feed to a feed reader such as Google. (Search these on Google if you are not familiar with the terms. There is heaps of information on there and could occupy an ebook of its own.) Start by posting links to interesting posts on Twitter about them with a link to the blog post. For example: “Interesting post on pest control in tomatos. Link”. Make sure you always include http:// in the link and not just www so the link is clickable in the Tweetstream.  If it's a long link, Tweetdeck has a facility to shorten it to a small url. Another good way of starting out tweeting is with quotes.  Do a search for some quotes of interest and tweet these. Personal development ones are great and also quotes by famous people.   There are thousands of these all over the internet that you can use.

Twitter is absolutely fantastic application whether you use it for business or pleasure. Whatever you do, at no stage of your Twitter career start posting sales tweet after sales tweet.  Your career will be short lived if you do and people will unfollow you very quickly.  Twitter is about engagement, value and a social experience. A constant flow of sales links is just not on.  By all means post links to your products or sites, but keep them to around 5% of your total tweets at the most.

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