Twitter is a powerful web site traffic tool, but simply signing up for an account and tweeting your links will not get you much traffic, maybe a few hits. You need to build your network of followers, which are the people who have chosen to see your tweets. So how do you get more followers?
Most people quickly realize that the quickest way to get followers is to follow other people. There are many Twitter users who follow back those individuals who follow them, so by following other people you will naturally get a percentage of them to follow you back.
Initially you are allowed to follow 1000 people. Once you get some followers, you will be allowed to follow 1000 more for a total of 2000. This is where many people get held up, as you cannot follow more than 2000 unless you have 2000 or more followers. Once you do reach the 2000 follower mark, you are allowed to follow up to 110% of the number of followers that you have.
Example: 2500 followers X 1.1=2750 (so if you have 2500 followers you will be able to follow as many as 2750 people at any given time.)
The most effective way that I have found to follow a lot of people and to get a good percentage of them to follow me, usually around 50-70%, is to follow the followers of other Twitter users in my same market. I find a user that has a good number of followers and I follow the same people. This is a good way to get a high percentage of follow backs as well as a more targeted audience.
What do you do when you reach a plateau where you cannot follow any more people unless you get more followers? Start to unfollow the ones who did not reciprocate and follow you back. As you flush out those who you follow but are not following you, you can get more empty space to follow more people and continue building your following.
Twitter does shut down accounts that follow and unfollow too many people in a short amount of time. They call it CHURN. I have found that I can safely follow 800 accounts in 24 hours OR unfollow 400 accounts in 24 hours. I have found that this is as much as I can do per day without getting shut down.
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