Twitter Tips to Accumulate a M***ive Following and Tons of Web traffic

[bumperboy]

Step#1

The first step to accumulating a m***ive following is
to set up a Free Twitter account at twitter.com. After setting
up your new twitter account you may want to upload a
nice photo but more importantly you definitely want to
create a really good bio and create a nice background
for your site.

Step#2

Find and follow fellow twitterers with similar interests.
If you are a musician naturally you'll want to connect
with other musicians. A great free tool to find targeted
twitterers is http://search.twitter.com. This site enables
you to locate people with similar interests using targeted
keywords to find your audience. If you're a musician you
can easily find other musicians to follow who'll in turn
will follow you.

Step#3

Feed your twitter account with relevant timely articles.
Again if you're a musician with a following interested
in music then you'll want to feed your twitter account
with music related content.

Step#4

Unfollow people who are not following you. Twitter rules
allow you to follow up to 2000 people and you can't follow
anymore people until you get 1850 followers. At that
point you can go over the 2000 mark. The next limit
twitter has is you can't follow more than 10% above the
amount of people that follow you. This means that if you
have 2000 followers the maximum amount of people you can
follow is 2200. Unfollowing people that are not following
you will enable you to free up space and enable you to
follow others who in return may follow you. Wait at least
2 days to give people a chance to follow you. After 2 or
3 days begin unfollowing people.

Step#5

Twitter allows you to post tweets with links inviting
your following to visit your website. The more followers you have
the more potential web traffic you'll receive.
Also you can send up to 1000 direct messages a day.
Depending on how large your following is, you can send
a message to up to 1000 followers. If you have 5000 followers
you can only send a direct message to 1000 of your followers
in a given day but still that's a 1000 potential hits to your
website. Keep in mind not to Post too many links promoting
your site on your twitter account. Posting a link once or
twice a week will suffice. Remember to shorten your urls
before posting your tweets. A great tool to shorten your
urls is at http://bit.ly

[Forum Admin 2]

Thank you for sharing your information:)

[Moderator 1]

This information will help anyone starting out with Twitter. Thank you for posting this.

[TshirtFrank]

Hi Bumperboy,

Great information this really sums they keys to gaining a very large following on Twitter and will help a lot of the people that don't really "get" Twitter yet. Here are some other thoughts: Twitter is a lot like producing any other type of Traffic on the internet. Building traffic that will result in sales is all about building a relationship with your prospect. With Twitter it is very important to use the @ feature and have conversations with people, build those relationships and Re-tweet other people's interesting tweets.

Keep up the great advice Bumperboy.

TSF

[Moderator 1]

Also very good points TSF. Thank you for sharing. :)

[Roseanne]

Hi tsf, i just strarted with Twitter, and I'm wondering how to use the @feature you mentioned to respond to people. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Roseanne

[Roseanne]

Great outline/guideline for beginners. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Roseanne

[Forum Admin 2]

This feature is called auto complete. This is an interaction design pattern to that involves displaying a list of suggestions as the user types in test. Auto complete can speed up the process of sending a tweet directed to a particular user using the @username format.

Hope this helps explain it:)

[EasyWizard]

Dont be a fraid to setup a unique twitter profile for each niche you are in.

That way you can keep things relevannt and targeted.

My experience suggests that if you do this you will see about %6 click rate to tweets and about a 11% response rate to DM's

Also a more powerful way to search twitter for relevant people and conversations is www.twitscoop.com

[MargaretJones]

I really appreciated the information in step 4. I'll have to go to my profile and get to weeding out!

This is a great post, bumperboy. Thanks for all the effort you went to!

[Forum Admin 2]

It still amazes me on how fast twitter had grown and branched off in all sorts of directions:)

[TshirtFrank]

Dont be a fraid to setup a unique twitter profile for each niche you are in.

That way you can keep things relevannt and targeted.

My experience suggests that if you do this you will see about %6 click rate to tweets and about a 11% response rate to DM's

Also a more powerful way to search twitter for relevant people and conversations is www.twitscoop.com

Hey EasyWizard,

This is a great point, You should have a unique Twitter account for every Niche. I use www.Twittertise.com to schedule tweets when I know i am not going to be around or if I want to focus on other aspects of my business for a couple days.

TSF

[Forum Admin 2]

YIKES!! It never ends with twitter huh? They have just about everything covered. Thank you for sharing the info TSF, this is also new to me. I have not heard of it before. I will add it to me twitter learning curve:)

[Moderator 1]

Twitter is ever-changing, it is nice to see someone is keeping up with it! Thank you for sharing TSF. :)