The Easy Way To Increase Your Twitter Following
The actual way Twitter works is that you follow people, and they follow you back, or vice versa. Unfortunately generally there are usually some strict limits applied. You can follow up to 2,000 individuals but after that we are reduced to following only 1.1 times the amount of people which are following you. So if we have 10,000 followers, you may track up to 11,000 people and no more. Right now there is also a daily cap of 500 which usually of courseprevents people building up large spam accounts
Your next issue will be that a lot of persons who you shadow won’t follow you back, so it really is necessary to periodically unfollow anybody who has not followed you back, then you can begin adding followers again.
So, to increase your following you will need to follow lots of individuals (up to 500 per day), then you will need to unfollow all those that fail to reciprocate (I would normally wait 7 days before unfollowing).
Using these basic rules your following will slowly, but surely, increase. This takes time and patience but as you get more followers the rate of increase will speed up.
Twitter is a superb way to build traffic and status for your blog or organization, and due to it’s high authority on Google it also provides a very strong backlink from your Twitter bio back to your web page. This alone is an important factor for tweeting. Also if you have not already, get signed up on Twellow.com
I hope the above helps and keep in mind that you really need to be patient to raise your twitter following. If you follow the above principles then over time you will be in a position to develop a significant following. There’s lots of e-books and advice out there, and different tools, but the above is pretty much all I have used to get my 85,000 plus followers (as of January 2011).
Mark Boardman is an SEO professional offering Expert SEO services. For further information Follow Me On Twitter.