Earlier this week I riffed on a tweet from Randy Hall and decided that I would try to reach the goal of 3,000 tweets on my Winecast account and attempt to get 3,000 followers. The first goal is challenging enough since there is only about a month left between now and my goal of Labor Day and I have a touch over 2,200 tweets now. But the really difficult part is how to go from 484 to 3,000 followers in a short period of time.
So I tweeted about this and was send a link to Dosh Dosh about this very subject. I found there linked another post by Darren at ProBlogger.
Jackpot!
Well, not really. To summarize both posts it seems there are only about 9 strategies to gain more Twitter followers:
- Already be established with tens of thousands of readers
- Be an internet celebrity
- Mass follow random Twitter users
- Drive targeted web traffic to your Twitter profile
- Promote contests on Twitter only open to followers
- Link Twitter to everything else you do online
- Provide valuable information
- Tweet often, particularly at peak hours
- Ask questions
Since I have only a few thousand readers and I am not an web celebrity, I can’t count on these strategies to get to my goal. And I don’t like the SPAM-like strategy of following random people on Twitter. So I’ll do the rest of the items on the list and blog my results.
This should be very interesting.
