Followers, followers, followers. That’s all you ever hear about on Twitter these days. Everyone wants followers and there are a million ways to attract them. People are constantly tweeting ways to attract followers on Twitter. There are also more than enough articles on the topic. From auto-follow services, to recommendation engines like our very own Mr. Tweet, you’re bound to find at least one solution that will work for you.
Discover If You’re Followable
These easiest and most humbling way to get more followers is to attract them with the content that you tweet. From links to the discussions you choose to participate in, potential followers will be able to decide within the first 15 seconds of viewing your profile, whether or not you’re followable. The best way for you to take advantage of this and improve your following is to go to the source: your profile (duh!).
Go to your twitter profile (you can find ours here: @corvida or @mrtweet) and look over your Twitter profile for 2 minutes. Done? Now, answer the following questions:
Would you follow yourself or would you pass up the opportunity?
What did you like about your Twitter profile?
How might others feel about your profile after taking one look at it?
Glance over your profile again for 10 seconds. Done? Now answer the following:
Do you think you’re followable?
If so, how do you make your profile stand out?
If not, what could you do to improve?
Share your suggestions, tips, and stories with us in the comments!
While Twitter’s website may be the default place to tweet, there’s no denying that people are using Twitter from a mobile device at some point during the day. In your car (yikes!), at work under your desk, during lunch, and in the airports where WiFi isn’t free (we’re looking at you Atlanta), mobile tweeting has become an irresistible thing to do.
From Nokia clients like Gravity to BlackBerry clients like the popular Twitterberry or the visually appealing TweetGenuis, it almost seems so 2007 to use Twitter’s mobile site or text messaging to update on the go.
How are YOU using Twitter from your mobile phone?
Are you using a mobile Twitter client, Twitter’s mobile site, or receiving text messaging updates?
Do you only send updates on the go or do you check replies and DMs too?
HUMOR: Do you like your mobile Twitter client, better than your desktop Twitter client?
Share your answers in the comments. We’ll link to your mobile Twitter app recommendations here!
In the last 2 months, we have been featuring cases studies and interviews of companies, groups and people who have done a fantastic job adding value to their communities (and by proxy, themselves) via the exciting new medium of Twitter.
These postings have been extremely well received, occasionally acheiving 750 Retweets and 500 comments. For those who have not been following, here are just a few examples:
CoffeeGroundz, the coffee shop who doubled their clientele by opening up new channels of ordering, and through actively engaging their community
Kriscolvin, who built up a network of new clients, partners, mentors, as well as a community of more than 7000 folks
Now, we are looking for more great examples of companies and people to feature. These folks should have:
Achieve something special via adding value to their community
Used Twitter (or others) in innovative, non spammy ways
Not just “marketing”, but with tangible, meaningful results
I am sure we have all been impressed by great people and companies we have stumbled upon before. We would love to hear who these people are! In the comments, please share their Twitter handle, and the reasons why you feel that they have achieved the results above. (Feel free to recommend yourself as well! Same conditions apply of course. )
Thanks in advance for sharing great people and companies with the Twitterverse!
*Updated post with great comments by Heather Rasley and Dean Kakridas, both of whom said much more in 3 paragraphs than I did in one whole blog post.
How are you using these tools, and what value do you get from them?
Recently something struck me as I was checking out Facebook in the morning. One of my friends wrote a note for a party he was having, and I left a somewhat raunchy comment (joking of course). Immediately after that I switched over to Twitter, and tweeted a couple of very professional sounding comments and links.
My typical activity on Facebook / Twitter
It struck me how extremely different my use cases have become on Facebook and Twitter. You can argue that Twitter is a subset of Facebook, but the different social and privacy dynamics has made my behavior on each platform very different. This sparked off a tweet where I asked the following:
Vastly different use cases for me. Is it the same for you?
From the replies, it seems like I am certainly not alone. Most of my friends seemed to have distinctively different use cases for each of these platforms. As such, is the whole Facebook vs. Twitter discussion misguided?
How about you?
As such, would like to open this up to everyone, and please leave a comment and share your insight on the following questions!
How do you use each of these platforms?
What unique value are you getting out of each of them?
How do you see your usage of these tools evolving?
In your usage behavior, is Twitter replacing Facebook, or does it replacing Linkedin?
All right folks, looking forward to your great comments! As usual, we will try to reply to every comment of yours. =)
Followers, followers, followers. That’s all you ever hear about on Twitter these days. Everyone wants followers and there are a million ways to attract them. People are constantly tweeting ways to attract followers on Twitter. There are also more than enough articles on the topic. From auto-follow services, to recommendation engines like our very own Mr. Tweet, you’re bound to find at least one solution that will work for you.
While Twitter’s website may be the default place to tweet, there’s no denying that people are using Twitter from a mobile device at some point during the day. In your car (yikes!), at work under your desk, during lunch, and in the airports where WiFi isn’t free (we’re looking at you Atlanta), mobile tweeting has become an irresistible thing to do.
