How I grew my Twitter followers from 500 to 1000 in just 12 days 👏👏👏

Twitter can sometimes can make you feel like you’re tweeting to a lonesome abyss.

Before we dive into the How To, let me tell you that I’m not a social media marketing expert. I’m a software engineer and #socialmedia doesn’t come natural to me 😅.

My twitter followers have always stagnated at around 300–400. This is mostly because I was just consuming information and didn’t spend time sharing relevant tweets and building an audience.

Recently I’ve decided to do an experiment and see how far I can take my Twitter account. So let’s get down to it 🧐

My Twitter followers before doing this experiment: 435

After doing some research I made a plan:

1. Setup profile bio, be authenthic, write what your passionate about.
2. Add a profile photo.. nobody wants to follow an “egghead” 😒
3. Identify my audience. My audience revolves around #swift #objectivec #javascript #graphql #reactjs #nodejs 👍🏻. Use tools such as hashtagify.me to research what hashtags to use.
4. Engage audience with relevant tweets. Be consistent! (post 3–6 times a day). Tweeting/retweeting too much will hurt your profile.
5. Follow and engage with active people with the same interests as yourself. Search through relevant hasthtags (eg.: #technology) and engage with the people that actively like and retweet other people’s posts.
6. Engage in Twitter chats. This can lead to massive exposure.
7. PRO TIP: pin your most engaging tweets to your twitter profile. Use Twitter Analytics to find your most popular tweets.

In order to tweet to my twitter audience I’ve setup a workflow using the following tools: Buffer, Feedly and Zapier.

1. Feedly let’s you find and subscribe to quality publications. Also can easily be plugged into services such as Zapier or IFTTT.

2. Zapier allows you to create jobs which check if a new article was published into a Feedly category and then automatically add it to my Buffer social media queue.

3. Buffer is the last piece of the puzzle. The service schedules content to be sent out to my social media profile. TIP: Make sure to keep that queue filled and review it once every couple of days. Add hashtags, mention authors for extra engagment 👌

One takaway is that consitency is key… Building an audience takes time. Treat your Twitter profile like you were running a marathon, not a sprint. Let me know if you have any other tips for growing your social media presence 🙏🏻

See you on Twitter Happy #GrowthHacking!