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July 27, 2019
Warframe – Walkthrough
Warframe is a free-to-play cooperative action role playing and third-person shooter video game developed and published by Digital Extremes. Originally released for Windows PC, it was later ported to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
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July 26, 2019
How To Promote Your Twitch Stream
Do a game review and promote your stream throughoutUnboxing some equipment and promote your streamVlog and vlog some more! (Keep it consistent)Create a documentary on your streaming day or why you got into streamingLet’s Play’s may be overdone on YouTube, so consider what else you could do with your gameplay content? Highlights are currently popular but what ties them together? Did anything funny happen across multiple days of streaming?Use Twitch Clips across all the social media channels such as Instagram, Twitter, FacebookConsider Instagram Stories and Snapchat as places where you can keep viewers updated when you are not streaming. And why not do some while you ARE streaming… your viewers will understand — especially if you get them involved!Can you interview or be interviewed?Team up with streamer friends and join them on their channels when they are liveWatch other streamers and jump into their chat, you could even become a moderator!Do something different to your usual on Twitch — why not stream in the IRL category and just chat to your followers and viewers?
Writing ideas to promote your stream
Write about your streaming setupWrite a review of your favourite game (new or old) — consider DLCs and mods!Start a blog about being a streamer — what experiences do you have that others don’t (growing a blog is tough so consider what readers will actually want to read!)Join the Twitch subreddit and get chatting!Can you interview game developers or designers on your favourite game? Tell other people’s stories!Write guides to your favourite games or charactersWrite a bunch of streaming tips and advice you have learnt in all the time you’ve been streaming (like I’m trying to do here!)
Audio ideas to promote your stream
Start a podcast with some friends on your favourite gamesCan you be interviewed on any related podcasts?Create a bunch of audio cues that other people can download to use as Twitch Alerts — could be musical, could be your voice, could be random noises?Your audience will recognise your voice, consider new platforms such as AnchorSome streamers like ZombiUnicorn have even made the jump into voice acting
Social media ideas to promote your stream
Post a picture of your streaming setup to Instagram, use appropriate hashtags and tag companies in it — they may ask to repost it (if it’s a great picture)Let people know your schedule on Twitter (and pin it to the top of your profile)Set up a Facebook Group and promote it during your stream (and vis-versa)Join a popular Facebook group like this oneEven better — set up a Discord and chat to everyone!Why not join another Discord and be part of their community?Your Twitch community is found across all other accounts, if they all live on Instagram, spend time on InstagramBe a nice person, help other people and other streamers, spend time engaging with their content and social media posts — treat them like a IRL friendWhat other interests do you have? Photography, film, cooking, dogs? Use social media to show this off and start discussions with interested viewers and fellow streamers
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July 21, 2019
How to Make Money on Twitch
With Twitch.TV (an Amazon company), you can join 2 million broadcasters and 15 million daily active users on the site and live-stream anything from your favorite game to a tutorial about how to make a computer table, Ikea-style.
As of April 2018, Twitch is the number one e-sports (video game) live streaming service in the world.
It beats direct competitors Mixer, Hitbox, and YouTube Gaming by a long shot.
And streamers are leveraging to power of the platform to make more money than ever thought possible.
How Much Money Do Twitch Streamers Make?
Making money with Twitch can be impressively lucrative, especially if you’ve got the right mix of personality, skills and luck.
For example, popular Twitch streamer Ninja (real name: Tyler Blevins) revealed earlier this year that he earns around $500,000 per month from Twitch Prime subscriptions, sponsorships, and partnerships, as well as YouTube revenues from his 5 million subscribers.
Note that Ninja has been livestreaming since 2008.
The amount of cash you can make by streaming content will depend on your popularity, number of subscribers, type of content streamed, and the monetization option you choose.
Subscriptions
Users can subscribe to streamers’ channels for $4.99 a month.
The $2.50 will go to Twitch, while the remaining $2.49 goes directly to the Twitch affiliate or partner.
The Twitch Affiliate Program
Twitch sends an invitation e-mail to any streamer who has been working consistently to produce content.
Those with at least 50 followers, an average of 3 (or more) simultaneous viewers in the last 30 days, at least 500 minutes of total broadcast in a month, and at least 7 broadcast days in the last 30 days.
Once you become an affiliate, you can earn by accumulating “Bits” or when people subscribe and support your channel.
You also have the chance of earning from game sales and in-game items that originated from your channel.
The Twitch Partner Program
Any Twitch streamer who aims to make it big in the site dreams to be accepted into this program.
You’d have to send an application for Twitch to check if your channel is qualified, since partners are often exclusive to more sought after personalities (with average concurrent viewership of 500+).
When you do make it as Twitch partner, you’ll reap all the benefits offered to affiliates, plus live chat privileges, unique emoticons, and other exclusive-to-partner perks.
Ad revenues
Similar to how YouTube ads work… Twitch content producers can earn money with shares in the advertisement revenue generated from their streams.
There’s no set income earned this way, but as a streamer’s followers increase, so will his/her ad shares.
Donations
Donations may seem an insignificant monetization option, but imagine having a million followers and all of them decide to donate a dollar each within a span of 30 days.
You’d be a millionaire just from the donations.
Paid livestreams
One way gaming companies advertise, pre-launch or test their products is through Twitch.TV.
Because these companies’ target market is already on Twitch.TV, the technique is to hire a streamer to play the game as thousands of followers watch along.
A great example of this was Ninja streaming a game of Fortnite with rapper Drake.
Sponsorships
You’ve hit it big as a game streamer when you receive big paychecks on a monthly or yearly basis.
It can also be a one-off deal, but sponsorships usually involve life-changing amounts, so it’s not surprising streamers strive to land sponsors.
Twitch.TV gives its streamers plenty of monetization options, but only once you’ve reached a certain threshold.
It’s important to note that streamers like Ninja took a decade of consistent streaming to reach his $500k/month income level, so if you’re starting out and thinking you’d be earning thousands of dollars overnight, now is the time to let reality sink in.
However, if you are serious about a career in livestreaming, Twitch.TV has everything you need to succeed.
12 Ways You Can Make Money on Twitch
Below are 12 ways people are making a living on Twitch.TV to give you some ideas on how you could start and what kind of niches are available on the site…
1. Live video game
Twitch.TV is first and foremost the home of eSports, so expect the competition among gamers are always on an all-time-high.
The best thing about Twitch is that anyone can do it. Take Mackenseize as an example – she’s been diagnosed with a seizure disorder as a teen.
Now, even if the 25-year-old Hearthstone streamer seizes every once in a while during a stream, her 37,000+ followers continue to support her with every game she explores.
2. Speedrun
Speedrunning is the same as livestreaming any game, except that the goal of “speedrunners” is to complete an entire level or a whole game as fast as possible.
TheMexicanRunner, for example, is a hardcore speedrunner for classic games and has made a huge following with his NESMania quest, wherein he tries to finish at record-breaking times every officially-licensed game from original Nintendo Entertainment System.
Twitch.TV also hosts people with a skill in broadcasting.
John of TotalBiscuit gives live commentary of interactive gameplay and has over half a million followers.
Some talk show hosts on Twitch.TV do not focus on the gaming world.
h3h3Productions, for example, is an Israeli-American comedy channel produced by husband and wife team Ethan and Hila Klein.
With about 555,000 followers, H3’s main content is a mix of commentaries, sketches, satires and reaction videos about internet culture, YouTube policies, viral trends, and online personalities.
The duo even interviews YouTubers and celebrities.
4. Play at Casinos
If you’re not a fan of video games, but prefer playing poker and other casino games, there’s a special place for you on Twitch.TV.
The casino category is filled with Russia-based streamers like rublpro and fartazop and only a handful of English channels like CasinoDaddy (although these 3 brothers hail from Sweden), so there’s always space for more people here.
Same goes for the Poker Twitch streamers.
Make sure to check out runitup or PokerStars (yup, the Stars Group-owned online poker cardroom) if you’re interested in poker broadcasting as a career.
5. Radio-style stream
It’s not as famous as gaming, but the Twitch Music category is a goldmine for anyone looking to create content or just chill.
Aside from taking advantage of the Twitch Music Library, which houses pre-cleared music for Twitch broadcasters to use live, you can also discover other streamers like NoCopyrightSounds who are focused on providing non-stop music to the Twitch community.
Of course, if you have the resources, you can always copy the success of legit radio-style streaming channels of Monstercat, Spinning Records, and Relax Beats, among many others.
6. Perform Music
When the Music category was first launched in 2016, Steve Aoki, T-Pain, Deadmau5 and other EDM artists supported Twitch and the users embraced them wholeheartedly.
Today, big-named artists like Kanye continue to use the platform as a way to promote their music, increase followers, or simply chill with the Twitch community.
7. Play Magic: The Gathering
The cool thing about livestreaming is that even physical games like Magic: The Gathering can be broadcasted from your home.
And if you’ve been a master-gamer of Magic since it was launched in the early 90s, you can still bring out your card collections and revive the glory of competing against other Magic fans.
Interested in joining Twitch.TV and earn money from your Magic: The Gathering skills, but don’t know where to start?
Check out the channels of LSV, Caleb Durward (CalebD), Kenji (Numot the Nummy), Bob Ristau, Todd Stevens and see how you can stream your own MTG plays and actually make money.
8. Live IRL
Twitch opened the IRL category to a ton of criticisms, but once the initial shock has passed, many existing Twitch streamers welcomed the idea and use it themselves as downtime, non-game streaming.
With the IRL category, gamers can now eat, sing, and do other activities without being reprimanded for doing so at their respective game-specific category.
IRL streams can be anything under the sun. Here are multiple examples that actually happened on Twitch IRL streams:
KitBoga calls IRS, tax, virus scammers and plays along for hours. He uses a voice changer to get into full characters like old-lady Edna and fools scammers for as long as possible.Someone doing math homeworkA guy assembled an Ikea closetSomeone decorating a Christmas treeArchitect designing a houseFully-clothed Andy Milonakis streaming from inside a running showerSomeone staring at a wall (this kid made $100 for this activity)Guy making balloon animals for over an hourAn American reading books in FrenchBounty hunters who live-stream while workingSomeone who made two Google homes talk to each other for hoursA garbage collector streaming his job on a regular dayJapanese man going to his local barber, eating out, and brining his viewers to interesting parts of his cityAn Arby’s employee who streams his entire shift live
9. Social Eat
Social Eating was one of the “Creative” sub-categories Twitch launched in mid-2016 in its goal of expanding from just the number one gaming streaming site to an all-around streaming site.
Simply put, streamers get to eat live and “share their meals with the community.”
Inspired by South Korea’s “muk-bang” where social eating is super-popular, Twitch welcomes this very specific group of streamers to the site, but with their own set of rules.
Plus, if you’re planning to stream your meal preps and cooking, social eating seems like a natural progression your community can follow.
10. Go to Work
Majority of game streamers on Twitch have some sort of IT-related jobs (or skills).
There’s a huge demand for game development tutorials, so if you’ve got the patience, talent, communication skills and passion to teach programming, coding, web development, photo/video editing, robotics, or any other techy topics, you’re good to go.
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How To Be A Successful Twitch Streamer
While there is no set pathway to becoming a successful Twitch streamer, there are seven ways that’ll help you find your way. These are:
What is your definition of success? Planning Find your value Money talks Building a real community Success isn’t just ‘partner’ or ‘followers’ Balancing work and lifeAn updated version of this article has been written on our website: theemergence.co.uk/how-to-be-a-successful-twitch-streamer/
Let’s run through the seven things that’ll help you become a successful Twitch streamer. But firstly, I need to ask, what does ‘success’ mean to you?
1. What is your definition of success?
What do you want to happen by the end of this — what is the end game?
Do you want personal freedom to work when you want, where you want and how you want?Do you want financial freedom to earn money doing something you enjoy?Do you want to find happiness by working on something you love every day?Do you want to make friends who enjoy your passions and hobbies?Do you want to be known as an expert in your chosen genre or niche?
Some people may be delighted that 25 people watch their live streams and because it’s a hobby and something they love to do — if that’s you, then keep doing what you are doing. Other’s may not be content with that, and wish to have 25,000 viewers…
What are your goals?
I want to reach Twitch Partner within one yearI want to have 10,000 followers on InstagramI want to make money from creating gaming contentI want to work with Casey Neistat on a gaming documentaryI want to change the world
Let’s break down one of those goals… 10,000 followers on Instagram:
Is your profile setup for growing followers? Is your profile image, bio and contact details optimised? How many people do you follow?What does your audience want to see?Do your photos and videos have an overall ‘feel’ or ‘look’ to them? What content currently gets high likes and engagement? Do you know why? Can you replicate the success?Are you correctly using hashtags? Are these hashtags too popular to stand out? How many are you using? (30 is the maximum!), are they relevant to your audience?Are you using Instagram Stories?Are you using IGTV?
Nothing is going to happen because you just ‘want’ it to, unfortunately, none of us are entitled to reach these goals through luck and sporadic work. You need to plan, find your niche, constantly engage, work hard, take streaming seriously and endure patience in order to reach these goals.
2. Planning
I cannot stress how important planning your content, brand and time is. If you want to reach any of the goals and successes we discussed in the previous paragraph, how do you reach them?
Strategy
While writing a 17-page document and spreadsheet on how you are going to be successful could be helpful, there is always a case of thinking & planning, and never doing. Be sure to try out some of your ideas to test them — then learn what went well, and what didn’t.
What should your plan include?
Why are you doing this and what are your goals?What are the video and social channels you are focusing on?What is your introduction to new people? How do you sell yourself in one paragraph?What learnings have you made so far — what works and what doesn’t?What makes it different to everyone else? In ‘business talk’ this is your USP (unique selling point)
Planning also includes your channel design and ‘voice’. Think about who you are and what you want people to think. Purple might be your favourite colour, but think about how that colour choice affects people’s perceptions of you and your ‘brand’ (colour psychology)
Time management
Understand how you are currently using your time — do you currently wake up and spent 30 minutes scrolling through Instagram? When you are sitting on the bus home are you adding things to Pinterest boards or messaging friends? Could you be spending this time doing something productive such as networking with other streaming, engaging with your Discord community or answering emails?
It may be that you need to do these things to give your mind a break — if this is the case, don’t stop doing them! Self-awareness is one of the most important things to learn, and understanding when you can (and need to) switch off will be more and more significant as you continue your content journey.
When is your brain most awake? Are you most productive in the evenings before bed, or at 11am on the weekends? Factor this learning in and be sure to plan your content creation around your own body clock and internal productivity habits.
Understanding your good and bad habits and working to remove them, adjust them or work around them will be one of the first steps to success.
Consistency
While we discussed consistency in time AND games in our guide to ‘Building A Community and Growing Your Following’ guide, it’s always worth reiterating over and over again.
Consistency isn’t just creating a schedule, but being consistent in the games you play, the rules and values you set down, your community engagement, your brand messaging & design and lastly…the times you play.
Find your value
Earlier we talked about USP — what makes you different to everyone else? What values do you want your community to live by?
Consider what you already spend your time on. Do you have 600 hours on Overwatch? Why not stream some of it?
Let’s go one deeper… do you main D.VA? Could you teach people? Could you show off some of your skills live on stream or in YouTube highlight videos? That’s value.
While not everyone needs to find their own ‘unique niche’, some are going to find success by being themselves and doing something similar but different enough to somebody else! Let’s face it… it’s not all about winning and there is always 2nd place and 3rd place.
4. Money talks
How much can a streamer make from donations? How can I make money from streaming? How can I get more donations on Twitch?
Sometimes the desire to make money quickly will ruin your chances of making even more money later on. Some streamers don’t even set up a donation page until somebody asks them “how can I donate to you?.”
Let’s be honest — what is more likely to make money? Streaming and asking everybody who comes in to join your empty $0 Patreon? Or building an audience to 10,000 people and then saying “if you want to support the channel, you can join our Patreon which is launching right now!” and seeing 250 people instantly jump in because you’ve entertained them for 6 months.
Be patient and wait until the opportunity feels right.
One thing to always consider is your call-to-action (or ‘CTA’ in marketing-buzzwords…lol). This is the ONE thing you want somebody to do when they consume a piece of content. Do you want them to follow you? Join your Discord or donate? Then make sure your content, the words you use and
Be aware that asking somebody to donate is likely to make them not want to do it, donating is a voluntary action somebody does when they want to support you or feel you deserve a reward for something you have done for them (whether this is entertaining them, helping them, inspiring them or teaching them). Don’t spam somebody by asking them for money… you wouldn’t do that in real life would you?
5. Building a real community
One of the major reasons Twitch is such a big platform and such a big community, is the instantaneous nature of the platform. It’s like if your favourite TV host could talk back to you, listen to your feedback and get to know you. There is an exclusive feeling of watching it live, viewers don’t want to miss out.
Engagement with your viewers (and potential viewers) is everything. While Twitch is instantaneous and you are expected to respond to viewers while streaming — you cannot ignore their questions, messages and support across all your other social media channels such as Twitter, Discord and even YouTube comments.
Networking isn’t ‘follow 4 follow’ or leaving emoji smiley faces on their Instagram pictures, it’s spending real quality time engaging with them and their content. It’s just like being a friend in real life..
You should be hosting and raiding other streamers after finishing your stream, you must be in their chat talking and engaging with their content, you could be a part of discussions on Twitter and Discord with them.
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How gamer Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins Became Successful Playing Fortnite
At 27, professional gamer has seen enormous success: He’s the most popular streamer on Amazon-owned gaming platform Twitch, racking up an estimated 226 million streaming views on the site in 2018 (more than double anyone else).
Blevins even broke a Twitch record last year by attracting over 600,000 concurrent viewers
@Drakeplaying fort nite with @ninja http://twitch.tv/ninja Ninja – Twitch(4min delay) FORTNITE FRIDAY w/ Faze Swaytwitch.tv333K11:57 PM – Mar 14, 2018Twitter Ads info and privacy129K people are talking about this
Blevins has over 12.8 million followers on Twitch, 20 million on YouTube, 12 million on Instagram and almost , all of whom come to watch him play ”, ” the incredibly popular online multiplayer survival game that took the gaming world by storm over the past year.
Those followers are worth a lot of money for Blevins. In September, his manager and wife, Jess Blevins, told CNBC Make It he was making nearly $1 million per month, and on Monday, Blevins told CNN that he earned almost $10 million in 2018 by streaming himself playing “Fortnite” on Twitch and posting videos YouTube. The two sites account for roughly 70 percent of his income, Blevins told CNN.
The rest of his earnings come from a growing list of sponsors that includes Samsung, Red Bull and Uber Eats.
Epic Games’ “Fortnite” exploded onto the scene at the end of 2017, and Blevins was one of the game’s best players and most active streamers from the jump. Essentially, he became one of the most recognizable faces associated with “Fortnite,” which itself has grown into a multibillion-dollar behemoth.
“Ninja,” as he’s known to his fans, had a meteoric rise in popularity since “Fortnite” launched, with his Twitch following soaring from roughly 500,000 people in September 2017 to nearly 13 million today.
But in the beginning, Blevins was a kid who was really good at gaming, so he was cautious about the industry. “I continued to do well in school and focus on the future of my life” he told CNBC’s of his time at Silver Lake College in Wisconsin from 2009 to 2010.
“It was one of those things where if I was doing well in school, putting in the time and effort there, and soccer as well, that I would be rewarded to play as many games as I want,” he says. “I maintained my job that I was working at [fast food restaurant] Noodles & Company and I stayed in college while I was doing all of these things.”
Even as a kid growing up in Grayslake, Illinois, a suburban town about an hour outside of Chicago, Blevins says he’s always had a naturally competitive streak.
“I always want to be the best,” he said in a video for Bud Light. “I love competing and I always want to play the best. If I’m not doing well I’ll be upset and I’ll be raging.”
Along with his two older brothers, Blevins began playing video games at a young age.
“My dad actually was the main influence,” Blevins explained on the Twitch stream “Walshy’s Halo History. ” “He loved video games when they started to come out and he would purchase them ‘for us,’ but really we would go to bed around as early as you can imagine when we were little, 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m. …. He would play on the consoles until 2 or 3 a.m. in the morning.”
The family owned early gaming consoles like Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo and bought Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation games when they came out in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In November 2001, Halo, a multi-player, futuristic war game was launched on Xbox.
As a 9- or 10-year-old, Tyler asked to play Halo along with his older brothers John and Chris Blevins, John remembers. They thought he was too young to play, but “he just destroyed us,” says John.
“He would stay up past the wee hours and just keep working,” Chris adds. “I think that’s when we were like, ‘Okay, maybe we’re not going to play with Tyler anymore.’”
As Blevins realized his skill and the potential to play in competitions and win prize money, he became serious about gaming.
“I started realizing, ’Oh my god, you can actually go to these events, I can actually make a team and I can compete against them,” he says. “That was when stuff got real.”
He first played competitively in 2009 by entering a Halo 3 event in Orlando to small success. But Blevins gained notoriety playing a later version of the game, “Halo: Reach,” in 2011 at competitions in Dallas; Columbus, Ohio; and Anaheim, California.
“You have to be better than hundreds of people, thousands of people — you have to be the best player to even win money from tournaments,” says Blevins. And he was. The same year, Blevins was making about $100 a day streaming his playing on Twitch.
In 2012, his team won the Halo 4 2012 MGL Fall Championships, with Blevins notching the highest score in the final game. He’s since competed with major e-sports teams like Team Liquid and Renegades.
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How to Get Twitch Followers
Follower count is often considered one of the vainest of vanity metrics. I can relate. I’ve had my fair share of ego tied to that golden number on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn—one day I’ll point out my follower growth to a friend and the next I’ll feel all insecure about the number not being big enough.
Still, despite the vanity, there is value in follower count. While it seems like a smug number to chase, followers have a proportional impact on how far and wide your message spreads and the rate at which you get clicks and impressions.
I think the best bit of advice on followers I’ve read is from our co-founder Leo:
Quality is key. Quantity can’t be forgotten.
Follower count is one of the metrics we keep a close eye on with our social media reports and audits. There is a lot of great advice on how to grow your followers on social media (much of which I’ll relay below), and at Buffer we’ve always been interested in the research behind the advice. How, specifically, can you increase your followers? Which actionable tactics can you take today to grow your follower numbers?
I went looking for data—and I think I found a few good answers.
10 tried-and-true bits of advice on follower growth
Before we get into the research-backed methods for growing your followers, I wanted to start off with a quick outline of some best practices for follower growth. You’re likely to come across these ideas when you’re searching for social media tips or reading up on how someone got the followers they did.
Here are the Big 10:
Post great contentWrite a professional bioUse hashtagsPlace a Facebook/Twitter/Instagram logo on your blogEngage with others on the social platformsMake sure your content is shareableReshare other people’s contentReach out to influencersStay activeFollow other users
There’s lots of really good advice here on what works and what doesn’t in terms of adding followers. These strategies are really good for consistent growth of your followers, and most of the advice you’ll read—How I Went From Zero to 380,000 Followers and Twitter Tips From a Marketer with 200K Followers—will be variations on many of these bullet points.
You may have noticed that there is no single, simple hack to get more followers. I’m afraid there’s no switch to flip to get the followers flowing. I’ve seen firsthand that the above tactics do work for building your follower count, so long as you can remain patient, determined, and consistent.
But while there’s no magic bullet for getting more followers, there is at least a good deal of research that can take you down the right path and ensure that your efforts are not in vain. Looking for a surefire way to gain more followers? There’s a good blueprint in this data.
1. Informers vs. Meformers
The key to getting 2x more followers: Share less about yourself
Are you an informer or a meformer?
Researchers at Rutgers University found that only 20 percent of us are informers on social media, while the other 80 percent are meformers. What exactly is a meformer?
Meformers — Users who post social media updates mostly relating to themselvesInformers — Users who post updates that are mostly information-sharing
The Rutgers team ended up creating the term “meformer” after analyzing data from a sampling of Twitter accounts. Their analysis, based on patterns of usage along with tweet and follower data, found a clear divide between those who share information and those who share about themselves.
And how does this relate to followers?
Informers had more than two times the followers of meformers.
It would seem that sharing information on social media is better for your follower count than sharing about yourself.
How can you tell which cluster you fall into—informer or meformer? The research study included an interesting breakdown of the classification of tweets. Researchers rated a sample of tweets and assigned a category to each. Overall, there were nine major categories that were used for classification. Do you recognize some of your tweets in the following examples?
Takeaway
Create amazing things and be a leader in your industry. Then don’t forget to mention it in your bio. Terms like author, expert, founder, and official can be powerful assets to growing your followers.
3. Avoid bursts of updates
Social scheduling is the #1 fix to retain the followers you have
You could also approach the question of getting more followers from the other side: Part of having lots of followers is knowing how to keep them.
There was an interesting study by a group of Korean researchers into the how and why of unfollowing. They looked at 1.2 million Twitter accounts and analyzed 51 days’ worth of tweets and interactions. Through analysis and interviews, they found that the following factors came into play with unfollowing:
Leaving too many updates within a short timePosting about uninteresting topicsSharing the mundane details of one’s life
The interview portion of the research study revealed the concept of “Bursts”—too many updates all at once. More than half of unfollows come as a result of bursts. (Hey, that’s pretty much why we created Buffer! If you’re losing followers because of burst, let us help—try Buffer for free!)
There are other factors at play here, too, and many of them are areas that could ring true for marketers or brands. Do any of these types of tweets hit home for you?
Give things away. Twitter users love discounts and freebies, and they are likely to follow a brand to get some goods. If you can add value in this way—along with your content strategy and branding—you might see your followers grow.
5. Increase your frequency
The more you post, the more followers you’ll have
This one might fall under the title of “common sense” for many of you, so it’s great to see that there’s data to back up the claim. Social media analytics company Beevolve analyzed 36 million Twitter profiles and 28 billion tweets to find the correlation between tweet frequency and twitter followers.
The results (as you might have guessed): Those who tweet more have the most followers.
Specifically:
A Twitter user who has sent 1 to 1,000 tweets has an average of 51 to 100 followersUsers who have tweeted more than 10,000 times are followed on average by 1,000 to 5000 usersIt’s estimated that a person with more than 15,000 tweets has between 100,001 to 1 million followers.
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Marvel Spiderman – Introducing Miles Morales & Epic New York City Battle
Miles Gonzalo Morales is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by the American publisher Marvel Comics, and one of the characters known as Spider-Man. The character was created in 2011 by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli, with input by Marvel’s then-editor-in-chief Axel Alonso.
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July 20, 2019
Spider-Man PS4 Player Combines 2099 and Big Time Suits
Marvel’s Spider-Man on PlayStation 4 features a ton of different suits, including both brand-new designs and classic, fan-favorite outfits. And each is brought to life with incredible detail and a meticulous approach to recreation. That said, you know what would be cool? If we could design our own suits. Well, that’s what one player recently did, but rather than start from scratch with a completely original design, they combined the white 2099 suit with the Stealth “Big Time” suit, and the result is pretty incredible.
Of course, both of these suits are great by themselves, especially the 2099 suit. However, when combined into one suit, they create an outfit that has some serious Spawn, Anti-Venom symbiote vibes, and which honestly looks like something Marvel would create itself. You can check it out for yourself below, courtesy of Reddit user Mosheeno:
Seeing this suit immediately made me think how cool it would be to have some type of workshop/creator feature that allows us to create our own suit. Of course, there’s a good chance this will never happen — we’re talking about Marvel after all — but it would be pretty awesome if it did. There’s a lot of creative people out there, as this shows, and I bet some pretty incredible suits would be created as a result. And some absolutely absurd ones too.
Speaking of a sequel, there’s been no outright confirmation one is in the works, but given how well the game was received and sold, it’s certainly in the pipeline. In fact, back in March the game’s creative director teased that development of a sequel was already underway.
Marvel’s Spider-Man is available for the PS4 and the PS4 only. At the moment of publishing, there’s been no word of a PS5 port.
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Fortnite – 30 Team Squad Battle
Before the season ends, Fortnite fans are expecting to see some big changes to the game’s map, with the Cattus vs Doggus event set to take place in less than 48 hours. The giant feline robot that has been built at Pressure Plant appears to be ready for battle, and is set to take on the monster spotted in the water outside the map in a showdown that could change the future of Fortnite forever.
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