Hey everyone 2 weeks ago I posted a video on how I got 900 twitter followers with 3 hours of work.
(See VIDEO: How I got 900+ followers on Twitter with 3 hours of work… )
Well it’s been 2 weeks and my count has grown to 1270+ as of today, March 17th, 2009.
(see http://twittercounter.com/nick1123/month)
I did this by just tweeting about stuff I had posted to my blog.
I also started a program where I stumble peoples’ url for free and that got me even more followers.
(See http://nickstraffictricks.com/can-i-stumble-your-site/)
So 300+ followers in 2 weeks is roughly 20 new followers per day.
I think the total amount of time spent over those 2 weeks is about 3 hours and most of that time was for the free stumbles.
I am telling you this not to brag but rather as an illustration of how easy it is to get followers, keep them, and grow your followers base.
It’s easy to get a few followers, but make sure they are are the kind of followers that are interested in your tweets.
It’s a lot like email marketing- find people interested in your message. (It’s also what Seth Godin preaches)
I have a blog that I write on each day and it takes just seconds to tweet about the new post using twitterfox. (See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5081)
So what does having all these followers do for me?
It’s gets me traffic.
Every time I tweet about a blog post of mine, within seconds I get traffic to my blog.
The key here is that people are actually interested in my message and so they follow the links I tweet about!
And as my followers grow in number, so does my traffic.
Now some urls I tweet about get more clicks than others and I can track this using tweetburner.
(See http://tweetburner.com )
Posts to my blog with more clicks are assumed to be more useful and desirable.
Using this info I can write things on my blog that audience cares more about.
This results in more traffic and more retweets, which results in more followers.
