Best Kept Twitter Secret, Learn From My biggest Twitter Mistake.
Aug
The biggest mistake I made when I started using Twitter was “following the crowd” and buying software to build my follower list into 10,000 or more. Dumb,dumb,dumb.
As you start following everyone and their dog, you’ll soon find that about every other tweet is someone peddling something. And, oh yes, every third offer will be the latest, greatest system to quickly build your list into the thousands quickly.
Here’s the Twitter Secret no one is talking about. Don’t use any automatic following software, that’s software that when someone follows you, it automatically follows them back and shoots them a tweet thanking them for following you and probably some offer to buy something.
What am I trying to say? You need to carefully build a list of followers that are worth following and have an interest in you and your ideas, and your niche if you are building a business around a niche.
If you been Twittering for a while, you may want to set up another Twitter account and start over. Then, and I repeat, don’t use any automatic following software. Next make an interesting BIO. Include in your bio your interests and some keywords about your niche.
Then sit back and watch for a few hours. Sure enough people will start following you. See, they are searching for words that are contained in your bio. They may also be sending spam to all users. Now take the time to screen (politicians call it vetting) each follower. Look at their BIO. Do they have similar interests to you? Look at 50 of their tweets. Do you really want them following you? Remember, if you follow them back their tweets are going to start appearing in you Twitter time-line.
To conclude, take your time. Be selective on who you follow. Develop a Twitter follower list that contains people you have a rapport with. This Twitter Secret will pay dividends if you follow it.
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