Gaining Twitter followers...

...turns out to be simpler than I had thought.

I've been on Twitter now for several months, and as soon as I started to get a few people following me, it occurred to me that it could be a powerful medium, if I could just figure out how to make the most of it. First step, clearly would be increasing my following on the site.

Despite my 'tweets' not seeming particularly interesting to me, I've managed to build up a little over 400 followers in a couple of months. Granted, that's nothing compared to the 'big guys' of Twitter, people with hundreds of thousands, even millions of followers, but my follower count happened virtually without any input from me. I want to increase it, and have done so for a while, but haven't been able to figure out how to do so. I tried various different programs that made you follow other people, and would apparently reciprocate and then have others follow you, and so on, but none of them seemed to make much difference.

Then, this evening, I was checking out the website of a Twitter friend, @SeanMalarkey, and decided to sign up to his newsletter, as I was intrigued by his 'Twixplode' system for finding new followers with similar interests to yourself. Along with the newsletter, Sean sent me a 'mini' version of the Twixplode course. I only started reading and trying it out earlier this evening, and I'm already showing an extra 15 followers, so I'm pretty pleased this far.

The idea behind it is dazzlingly simple: find others who have similar interests - preferably the 'gurus' in whichever field you're interested in - and then follow as many of their followers as possible. Roughly 40% follow you back. Sounds almost too simple, but it really works. Sean also shows the best ways to both speed up and automate all the processes, as well as to really quickly figure out who's not followed you back, and to 'unfollow' them to keep your numbers balanced. And this is all in the free report! Impressive.

I recommend checking out his site if you're interested in increasing your Twitter following: Twixplode (and no, I'm not getting anything out of this! I just reckon good services deserve a mention, especially when there's so much crap around on the internet).