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your email). Check your interactions and mentions. times. 45. Respond to @mentions - If someone has mentioned you on Twitter, respond to their comments. 60. Improve your tweets - Based on your analytics, improve your tweeting practices. If your Followers love your quotes, keep tweeting quotes. If a particular hashtag is getting you more followers, engage more on that tag. 46. Respond to RT’s - If someone has retweeted you, thank them. 47. Partner with other businesses - Give your customers more, by mentioning business partners in your Tweet. You give your partners more exposure too, by retweeting their message. Use Awesome Marketing Tactics 48. Engage with contests - Add interactive contests (like vote contests, photo contests, photo caption contests, essay contests, or even video contests) to make your Twitter content more engaging. Contests can be ‘follow-gated’ to get you even more followers on Twitter. 49. Run regular contests to gain momentum - Use engagement tactics like contests regularly to build habits in your Followers, and keep getting your contest tweets shared. Host weekly contests, for example, and use an app that sends a tweet to your entrants’ followers when they enter. 50. Offer exclusive deals - Offer your Twitter followers group deals that they can only get if they follow you. 51. Use sweepstakes and giveaways - Like group deals, offer your Twitter followers the chance to win from you. Host Twitter sweepstakes and giveaways available only to your followers. 52. Use promoted tweets - Use ads on Twitter to promote your best tweets. Get them seen by your followers and potential new followers. 53. Use promoted trends and accounts - Use other Twitter ad products, to promote your Twitter account and hashtag trends. 54. Target your ads - Target to your Twitter ads to reach people who are like people who already follow you. Target your ads based on Twitter users’ interests. Geo-target your ads too. 55. Launch a new product live on Twitter - Host a live tweet event to extend the reach of your product launch. Set up a hashtag, and get people tweeting as you launch live. You could use live tweets as regular Q&A sessions too, to connect with your market, and get more followers. Monitor Results to Improve 56. Monitor results - Always monitor your Twitter (and social media in general) results. Use Twitter analytics, or other third party dashboards. 57. Track your links - Use a link shortner like Bit.ly to keep track of your click through rates. 58. Tweet at different times - Tweet outside of regular business hours. Use a social media management tool to schedule your tweets, and make your life a little easier! 59. Tweet on weekends too - Your customers are actively tweeting on weekends, make sure you’re connecting with them when they are. Check your analytics to determine your best tweeting days, and 8 Independent Artist Magazine www.indieartmag.com Conclusion So, there you have it, 60 simple tips to get more followers on Twitter. Try them out, and let me know how you do! If you want to learn more about using Twitter for your business, check out these Twitter marketing articles and resources from Wishpond: 52 Methods: How to Get Your Tweets Retweeted http://blog.wishpond.com/post/56542607344 The 9 Most Common Mistakes on Twitter http://blog.wishpond.com/post/55269436779/the-9-most-commonmistakes-on-twitter How to Run a Twitter Contest http://corp.wishpond.com/how-to-run-a-twitter-contest/ [Infographic] Twitter by the Numbers: 20 Amazing Twitter Stats http://blog.wishpond.com/post/58272859187 [Infographic] The Top 7 Tips to Get More Followers on Twitter http://blog.wishpond.com/post/50361353513/infographic-the-top7-tips-to-get-more-followers-on Twitter Marketing Resources http://corp.wishpond.com/twitter-marketing-resources/ There are many more best practices and methods to increase your Twitter followers. Did you notice the “Click to Tweets” at the start of this article, for example? What additional engagement tactics do you use to get more followers on Twitter? What’s worked for you? What hasn’t? Written by Krista Bunskoek @ Wishpond http://blog.wishpond.com/post/60 766975982/60-simpleways-to-increase-your-twitter-followers Twitter Content Marketing for Business. Free 48 page ebook. http://corp.wishpond.com/ebook-twitter-content-marketing/

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