juliedaloiso.comTwitter – How to find targeted followers
You are using Twitter! Great! You post some cool articles. Your titles are original and your topics are thought provoking. So what’s the problem? No one is seeing your posts. You have 24 followers (one is your Mom and four of your friends are there also). You would like more followers, but how do you find good people to follow and where can you find them?
It is time to devise a plan! Please do not just randomly start following people! You need to devise a strategy. If you “randomly” follow you will not have anything good to retweet to your friends or gain knowledge from. Basically, you are as good as your followers!
It all starts with “Why are you on Twitter.” If you really want to promote your articles, you need to figure out who would be interested. Also you need to find people that might inspire your next great blog post!
Where do you start to find good people on Twitter? Did you know there is a Twitter Yellow pages? It is called Twellow (yes it is a funny name, if you use Twitter you will need to get used to that). Once you register with Twellow (yes it free), you can create a nice bio and get listed in 10 different categories. Here are some more uses of Twellow:
- When you sign in you will see many categories. This will be a good place to start. If you are interested in food, click the food category and you will see people that tweet about food.
- You can find local people who are on Twitter using Twellowhood (this works well if you own a Pizza shop).
- See the people you follow and people that follow you. You can also see who is not following you and who you are not following back. More on all of this reciprocal following in my next blog post.
- Check out the “Suggested Users Tab”. It includes some people that Twellow recommends to you based on the categories you have chosen.
How would a business use Twellow to find good people to follow? If your blog is about women, there are several categories about women including “Women Issues.” See who you find interesting listed there and follow them.
Now there are other cool sites that will help you find targeted follower:
Who Should I Follow – This website will recommend people based on the your current followers.
We Follow – This website will give you the top followers for a certain category. This would be a good website to find experts to follow. When you are looking for people that might read your blog, someone with 1,000,000 followers will not even see your blog!
Tweepsearch – This website will allow you to search by twitter posts by keyword
Tweepz – With this website you can sort by the number of followers and join date.
Just Tweet It – Choose a Category and find other tweeters like you. Check out the Twitter Tools Directory on this site to see a nice collection of twitter tools.
When looking for types of people to follow, look for blogger’s of your topic, you might be able to catch their attention. For example if you sell baby products search for mommy bloggers. How do you catch their attention? This will be a subject for another day.
You can always use the search feature on Twitter.com as well. But is it not as fancy!
There are others of course. But you do not need to get too crazy. Start with Twellow, pick one or 2 more if you wish you should be good. And remember you do not want to add a ton of followers every day, Twitter will think you are a spammer. You can use a different tool a week.
Make sure you add your twitter account to any of these sites and others that gives you the option.
Come up with a plan and stick to it. Find people to follow for their advice and guidance. And follow people that you think might find you interesting.
There is one thing to remember, not all will follow you back. So do not feel offended. The more aggressive you are in finding followers, the more you will eventually need to trim your followers. And that will be another blog post for another day!
If you would like to use Twitter for research, you can read an older blog post here.
So follow along and have a good time: you can always follow me if you are not already a follower: @juliedaloiso