Twitter Tips: Providing Valuable Information that Make People Want to Follow You

Now that you have an account, have done some following and have some followers it’s time to contribute and meet some new people.  (Note, for the first few weeks I suggest following people in your niche or interested in your niche so that you build a base of people to build relationships with.)

The whole follow people and get followed back practice, in mass, was not very appealing to me before but I now mix up the techniques that I use to get followers.We will chat more about that later.  Today it is all content.

When I began tweeting I was posting about myself and my own business.  I would just post some of the tasks that I performed for my business that day.  Maybe 6 to 12 Tweets per day.    Then I began posting some of my favorite quotes.  I usually scheduled all of my quotes for the week on Sunday night.  I was sending 2 to 3 quotes a day when I started.

I realized that I was earning a lot more followers by posting famour quotes than I had been gaining by Tweeting about myself.  I knew people were now finding value in my posts because my followers growing like never before.  The more valuable the information I Tweeted the more people retweeted my posts and the more followers I gained.

As I learned more and more about Twitter posting good content I posted more and more quotes for a few months.  So I began to Tweet about my favorite blog posts from other bloggers.    Once I began tweeting links my interaction really stepped it up a level.  I have always used Googe Alerts to track my favorite topics and keywords related to my online businesses.  So I began to put Google Alerts to work.

Each morning I would read through all of my Google Alerts and post links to the most compelling and valuable content.  I was using Tweetlater to schedule all of these excellent stories and was earning more followers than earning before].

When I realized that posting to my favorite content was working I decided to begin Tweeting about my own content.  As my original blog content grew and grew the more I posted linked to my own site.  And the more often I blogged the more Twitter followers I got and the more readers I acquired for my blog.

So I was experimenting with content and began finding out what drove the most visitors to my blog and what got the most interest from my new found Twitter community.