Twitter is a social community website to share short updates called tweets.
These tweets can be anything from personal activity to an update on a website. That makes twitter one of the best social community for online business owners.
But in order to get good results from twitter it is necessary that you have enough number of followers. These followers will be able to view your updates on their account home page. They can then retweet of visit your website if they find it appealing enough.
When you first create an account you have 0 followers, you are also recommended some followers to follow but it is better not to go for it before knowing a few things about how twitter actually works.
Start Following
To get enough number of followers you need to follow those who are in same online business niche as that of yours. If only your interests matches their interests, they will in turn start following you.
Make sure you don’t start following people like Mr Bill Gates with a hope that he will start following you in return. You can of course follow him or who ever you want to but if you are expecting a follower in return then these guys won’t do it unless you are some big guy.
Almost 45% to 50% of the total people you start following will start following you in return if both of your interests or business niche matches.
Once you get few followers, the best thing to do is to start following the followers of your follower. Confusing? Those who will start following you would be actually interested in your website. That means their interests matches to your website niche.
So a good thing to do is to browse their followers and start following them. That is because their followers would be interested in your followers, so it becomes a complete cycle and you no longer have to search for relevant members on twitter. That can highly increase the chances of you getting some followers.
Content and Updates
Content is off course the king and updates should be consistent throughout the time. Having interesting content like useful resources and tips on trending topics can be good to get your tweet noticed.
Topics such as how to, top list of and ways to do have a great potential of getting visitors from twitter. Remember, visitors need information that would help them, their blog of their online business.
Use widgets and plugins to automatically post tweets whenever you add an entry or update a post on your website, if you are using a CMS. If you are using a custom script like PHP or ASP.Net you might have to create a custom API that would make that happen. This is a good method to keep your followers updated.
Relevant followers
Don’t use those automated software and APIs to get twitter followers. It is unlikely that you will get a follower that would be actually interested in your website or business. That would no only waste your money but won’t give you any good results even if you have thousands of twitter followers.
These tools and service providers can also be a scam and take away your money. Twitter is already working hard on cracking down such service providers. So better not use them.
At a times this can be good if your website does not fall in a too specific category.
Consider the first step explained above to get relevant followers.
Genuine Followers
All of the above steps were to get started with your twitter account and a first step towards promoting your website or a business through twitter.
You would not want to keep doing it all the time to get followers because that can get worthless at a time.
If you want genuine followers to your website then the best thing to do is to place a “Follow me” buttons on your website. That will give your website visitors an option to start following your tweets and hence blog updates. Also place retweet buttons on your posts for visitors to retweet.
