Cheesy sounding title aside, this is something a lot of folks who are on Twitter would want to know.
In the morning, I posted a few tweets on this topic.
I felt there’s a bit more to unpack here so following it up with a blog post.
Before we jump on the tips and tricks, let me share what all I look at before deciding to follow someone or not. While I might have a different approach, I believe most other users of Twitter would be following a similar approach.
Step 1: Visit person’s profile and give a cursory glance. Since Twitter profile (unlike Facebook) has limited fields, it makes the job easy for me to get a quick sense.Â
{ Hi Mahesh, if you are seeing this. You are famous 🙂 }
Quickly listing parameters (in order of importance to me) and tagging them into two categories user parameter (customisable) and system parameter (un-constomisable)
- Name – User Parameter
- Display Picture – User Parameter
- Twitter Handle –Â User Parameter
- Description – User Parameter
- Background Image – User Parameter
- URL – User Parameter
- Follower Count – System Parameter
- Joining Month – System Parameter
- Followed By – System Parameter
- Tweet Count – User Parameter
If this quick glance is satisfactory, I check out the person’s Tweets. To find out more about what kind of tweets does this person make, are they just tweets, RTs or replies to other people. This is a bit of a subjective one. What might be interesting for one might be boring to another (say politics).
So to get more people to follow you on Twitter two things need to happen
- More people should check out your profile (though one can directly follow also, but I don’t think non-bots do that much)
- Get more people who check your profile to click the follow button
Here are some quick tips for both
Getting More people to check your profile
- Tweet regularly and try to keep the tweets interesting (a mix of your thoughts, good stuff you found on internet etc). 5-10 tweets a day is good.
- Interact with other people and their tweets often (Talk to people, RT and Like good tweets you find). 5-10 replies and interactions a day is good.
Getting more people to click the follow button.
Tweak all the user parameters:
- Name – Use your full name (nothing more, nothing less)
- Display Picture – Have a clear picture of yourself
- Twitter Handle –Â Keep a sensible handle (unless your sense of humour is through the roof)
- Description – Share a bit about yourself (so folks can relate to you)
- Background Image – Not that important really but don’t screw it up by putting a lame background image.Â
Tried to keep this post short and useful at the same time. If you try this, do let me know how it works out.Â