Retaining Twitter Followers – How to Get Twitter Followers to Stick –

Retaining your twitter followers is not as easy as it seems. The reason is that people do not understand that twitter is not a market place. It is a place to share your ideas and network. This means that you have to provide value for your following or they will start to unfollow you. If you are not familiar with twitter read my beginner guide to twitter to get started.

I follow back practically 95% people that follow me. Some people say that it is not a good policy, but I disagree. Following people back is a way to show appreciation for the people that took time to follow you. Anyway, here are my concepts on how to get twitter followers to stick.

Tweet For Value

When you tweet, your message must be interesting for your followers. It can either be funny or in someway related to your niche. If you are using twitter the right way, then most of your followers will be targeted. These targeted people are normally looking for targeted tweets. Always think that would your followers want to read this, and you will be well off.

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Social Bookmarking Sites Case Study Part 1: Starting Point

I am  starting a case study of the effectiveness of social bookmarking sites. Until now I have not been active in that area. I have only added some of my posts to  Digg and StumbleUpon, because they have not delivered. Maybe I have used them in the wrong?

Anyway, now is the time to really put these sites into the test.

My efforts

I am going to add all the posts here to the following social bookmarking sites:

• Propeller
• StumbleUpon
• Digg
• Kirtsy
• Mixx
• Folkd
• Mr. Wong
• Delicious

I have around 40 posts so submitting to all these sites will take some time. Probably at least a few days.

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Twitter Guide for Beginner Bloggers

This article is about how to get started with Twitter. It is pretty easy to start using it, but the how to use escapes many people. Some people even think that twitter is a silver bullet for online marketing. It is not. It is just another place to network, communicate and chat.

Short Introduction to Twitter

Twitter is a micro blogging platform that allows users to write short 140 char messages, tweets. The basis of twitter are followers.

On Twitter you can choose,  do you start to follow. When you follow someone, you also start to receive their tweets. And vice versa, people who follow you will receive your tweets. This means that the amount of followers you have, will affect the amount of readers you get for your messages.

Getting Followers

The way to get followers is to follow people and hope that they follow you back. I’d say that around 25% of the people that you follow, will follow you back, so you are pretty well off with this strategy.

Many people who start out with twitter,  just run around and try to follow all the people they find. It is a big error, because you should only follow targeted people. Follow people that will likely be interested in your blog and in your tweets. The more interested the people are, the more clicks you will get. It’s that simple.

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Twitter Case Study 5: End Results

Now it is time to write the conclusion for this test. As the end results I will tell you how you can get traffic from twitter and what is the real value of the traffic.

Statistics at this point

• Followers: 977
• Following: 1084
• In-clicks total 64 (Google Analytics, stats a day late)

Getting Traffic from Twitter

For every link post you make on twitter, you will get some visitors for your blog. The amount of direct visitors, depends on the amount of followers you have and on the interests of your followers. Tweet text also matters a lot for, because the title either seduces to click or pushes away.

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Twitter Case Study 4: Great Success

Just giving a quick update on how I am doing. I have been quite active in getting more followers. The best way is to follow people and then unfollow them if not followed back. I have tweeted all my new blog posts to promote them. The great success is that I have now received a reasonable amount of clicks from twitter

Statistics at this point

• Followers: 547
• Following: 716
• In-clicks total 34 (Google Analytics, stats a day late)
• For every posted link I get around 3 to 10 clicks

What I’ve done

I have tried to find people with similar interests as I have. For that I  use twitter lists or I just use the search to find the users. Interaction with other users bring me  a lot of followers, because I am visible in many users pages.

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