Suddenly Making It On Twitter

It's been a long haul, but I'm finally figuring out how to gain Twitter followers who stick. 

When I get a new follower, or someone RTs me or chats with me, I look at their followers and follow the last five people who followed them, instead of looking at who they follow and copy them. My reasoning is these people have probably recently followed someone and therefore are looking to make new friends or pick up groupies. At one point, I had a 92% follow back rate according to a free Twitter APP.

Of course, this means I need to follow them back or most will drop me. I've had to lower my snob ratio. Unless I see something horrifying in their profile (bragging criminals, hate mongers and porn profile pictures) I'll follow them back. And if I'm following from my iPhone, all I see is the photo and name so if that isn't gross, I'll follow. At least until I see otherwise.

I've now got more than 20,000 Twitter followers, which pretty much blows my mind. Until I surf around and see all the popular people who have hundreds of thousands of followers. And some have millions. Yep.

I could not have done this without the help of free Twitter APPs that tell me who isn't following me so I can quickly unfollow them. I still hit daily follow limits sometimes, but I can just wait until the next day and use an APP to help me find who to drop so I have room.

I did try a Twitter APP to automatically retweet for me. Even with tweaking their parameters and filters for a couple of days, it was still sending RTs in my name that were offensive not only to me, but to the followers who abruptly dropped me. It also sent useless RTs that had no informative or informational value at all. I ditched the APP. I enjoy selecting fun people who need help getting their word out. I RT as much as I can.

Close to 1,000 people are RTing me regularly :)

Two verified celebs followed me last week. One SOAP hunk I followed first. And a local news anchorman followed me first.

I'm an author in a sea of hundreds of millions. I have a discoverability problem. I'm finally getting 5 Star Reviews from people who've found my books because of Twitter.

Squee!