How To Gain Followers and Grow on Twitter

When I first started blogging, I didn’t have a Twitter. It wasn’t until 3-4 months later until I bothered giving it a try, and I instantly reaped the benefits. After having Twitter for nearly six months, I’m now gaining close to 100 followers a month and getting plenty of engagement on my posts and with other bloggers.

So in today’s post, I wanted to share my tips for getting the most out of Twitter by engaging and gaining followers.

Types of Tweets: Promotional and Personal

A good strategy is to have a mixture of personal and promotional tweets, but what percentage of each is up to you.

Promotional tweets are great for your blog. You get your blog name and posts out there, advertising to the world that your blog exists. It’s a great way to promote new posts, or even bring more attention to older posts that your new followers might be interested in. Most bloggers have promotional tweets, especially if their Twitter is mostly focused on their blog.

Personal tweets help balance out all that promotion. By sharing a little more about you, you’re adding personality to you and your blog. Plus, it’s usually fun to share about your day with others like a personal Twitter account. It helps readers decide if they should follow you, and having your own personal tweets besides your blog promotion adds variety and uniqueness. People are more likely to follow you if you do more than promote your own work.

Promoting tweets of others in the blogging community is a great way to make friends, gain followers and overall see what’s going on the community. Did you read an amazing and helpful post by another blogger? Retweet it! Interacting with others on Twitter is a great way to not only gain followers, but gain friends as well.

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Personal Tweets: Let Your Personality Show Through

Stuck on what to tweet about? Here’s some ideas:

• Current hobbies
• How your day went
• A fun event that happened that day
• Ask questions
• Ask for blogging help
• Tweet your daily to-do lists
• Share your favorite song at the moment

• Chat about something trending
• Create a fun poll
• Try #followerfridays
• Tease a new blog post
• Tweet about productivity
• Share about a new blog milestone
• Tweet a photo from Instagram

Questions: Useful But Be Sparing

Like I mentioned earlier, asking questions can be a great way to engage, gain followers and show personality. Plus, depending on the question, you might learn really important or interesting information!

But, make sure not to ask too many questions. A somewhat common way to get a lot of an engagement is asking very basic questions frequently, which comes off as very unnatural and frustrating to readers. Have you ran into account that uses questions as a quick way to get engagement? Then you’ll probably understand what I mean.

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Hashtags: Limit Especially on Personal Tweets

A general rule for hashtags on Twitter is to use 2 or less. Leave the 25+ hashtags for Instagram, please!

Especially on personal tweets, hashtags can be hard to read, and generally most hashtags don’t work as well as you’d hope. Some tags in the blogging community such as #prreqest #bloggerwanted #journorequest to name a few are great because people are constantly searching through them. But hashtags like #dog #food #ootd? Yeah, those don’t work on Twitter that well.

For promotional tweets, don’t be afraid to tag and use hashtags for further reach. There’s several blogging RT Twitter accounts that will either retweet if they’re tagged or retweet off their chosen hashtag. Either way, this can be a great way to gain more reach.

Sometimes people like to load as many hashtags and tag as many people as they can. I personally find it hard to read and frustrating, especially with writer’s lift tweets. I generally avoid those, or people who try to promote absolutely any kind of digital content, but it’s up to you if you want promotion from these types of tweets or not.

Comment And Like Frequently: Interaction Is Key

As you may have been able to tell, interactions and engagements are key to using Twitter properly!

Of course, don’t comment on things you have no idea what they’re talking about just for the sake of engagement, but this is a good reminder to comment on other tweets. Get to know people, their blogs and brands.

Liking tweet is about the same policy. See a blog post you liked reading? Give it a like! Did you find their tweet funny? Like it! That’s some pretty basic Twitter stuff, but sometimes it’s easy to scroll and forget to interact. If you aren’t an active social media user, schedule a time to engage.

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Who To Follow: More Than Just Your Niche

When I first started blogging, I wanted my feed to be mostly beauty bloggers. I quickly learned that 1, there’s not a lot of beauty bloggers in the community and 2, a lot of people don’t have niches. Lots of bloggers post about whatever they’re interested in and don’t niche themselves down, so only following people in your specific niche is a surefire way to stunt your growth on Twitter.

For example, I’m mostly a beauty/lifestyle blogger with a couple of posts like these about blogging, but I follow book bloggers, food bloggers, general lifestyle bloggers and more. There’s a few niches I genuinely have no interest in, so then I make the call if I should follow them or not. Someone who blogs about car detailing? Probably not high on my follow list.

If you’re trying to grow and gain the absolute most amount of followers, then follow anyone with blogger in their bio. Or, if you prefer to curate your feed a little, be a bit more selective of who you follow. Avoid anyone who activity spams their account frequently with tweets.

Where To Find Followers: “Who To Follow” List

Twitter gives you a handy little section called the Who To Follow list. This list gives you a suggested-for-you list of other users to follow. It’s usually a mixture of people you’ve interacted with recently, users who a lot of your follower’s follow, and some people who follow you, but you haven’t followed back.

Another great way to find people to follow is under comment threads. Comment threads are a really nice way to promote yourself, and you end up finding a lot of other bloggers to follow in the process!

Conclusion

I hope these tips helped whether you’re a novice with Twitter or a seasoned pro. I see questions about some of these things floating around the community so I hoped it gave you some insight.

Do you use Twitter for your blog? Let me know! Twitter is commonly used for blogging, but I’ve heard of some people who don’t so I’m curious!