How do you gain followers on twitter?

Hi @JKazama, Congrats on joining twitter as it is the right place for Devs to grow their audience and connect with other Devs. To be honest, if you follow the right people on the platform, you will find scrolling through your feed interesting and not like another boring task or networking hack.

The first thing I do after waking up is checking my twitter feed as it always gives me the energy to start working on my project. That being said, I joined twitter less than a month ago and without any aggressive strategy, I have grown to a humble 55 organic followers who actually followed me for my content. Every day, I find 2-3 new followers.

Here is my strategy:

1. Tweet regularly. According to a recent research, 10 tweets per day is a sweet spot. Use Tweetdeck from twitter to schedule your tweets.

2. Tweet relevant, if you are a dev, try to give relevant information to your followers. Maybe a code snippet you love, a trick you learnt in CSS today, your favourite tool or platform. (use carbon.now.sh for sharing code snippets)

3. Tagging relevant accounts. I tweeted how Vercel is a good platform: "Simplicity as a Service". I got a lot of organic retweets and reach because the CEO of Vercel retweeted that tweet.

4. Follow accounts in your domain so that you are continuously learning, like James Clear, Monica Lent, David Perrel, Catalin Pit, Emma Bostian and many others.

Finally, you can follow me if you are interested in Web-dev, indie-hacking and growth -https://twitter.com/RajeevSinghN/

I just passed 1000. I created my account one year ago but started using it seriously only in the last few months.

It's not that different from optimizing a landing page for conversions. Why should someone follow you?

People will take a quick look at your profile and you have a few seconds to convince them to click the follow button.

Things that help:

• A good bio that clearly states who you are and what you do
• Tweeting original stuff and not just retweeting others
• Genuinely engaging with other people and creating relationships
• A good ratio between following and followers
• Not overtweeting

@witsuma has been working on it, growing his own followers and giving excellent tips

In summary:

• Reply to users you find interesting in your industry. Make them aware of you. Start a discussion
• Tweet regularly
• Repeat

Twitter is an interesting beast, I've never used it before I started a side hobby back in October. I joined in late November and grew my followers to about 2,000 in 3 months. There are ways to do it but you need to spend a bit of time on it doing what I consider tedious work.

I also later realized the engagement rate on Twitter is incredibly low--I've only had 2 'viral' tweets with over 15,000 views, but that was after dozens of attempts at trying to get some activity going.

I still use the platform a little bit, and I guess I must've crossed a tier or my name is getting out there a bit more as I usually get 2-5 new followers out of nowhere most days now. (In the first 3-5 months that was 0)

Anyway, here's some tips, good luck!

1. Make sure your audience is niche and perfectly aligned with what you're creating/discussing
2. For every Tweet you post about your work, you should retweet 3-5 other people's work
3. Comment, like, follow anyone that interacts with you (assuming its all positive)
4. Find a list of 5-15 relevant hashtags and regularly check on them/interact with the top posts for them
5. Reach out to Twitter ppl that you admire/follow their work. Many people still allow direct messages, there's no harm in reaching out and saying you love their work (I've made 2 good e-friends this way that I'm a huge fan of their work)
6. A lot of these platforms' algorithms reward daily activity. That's why there's tweet schedulers out there--I haven't used one myself but if I start another project that's much more 'interactive' I'll probably venture into it--Point of this, try your best to post at least once a day.
7. Building followers is a time game--one post a day, 10-30 followers a day through activities--you can build up thousands in months with only 10-30 minutes of activity a day. Decide what level of involvement you want/willing to commit to the platform for the next 6 months and then aim for that 5-7 days a week.

Good luck!

I'm no expert. But it seems that persistancy and focus are the key. No advice would skyrocket your followers.

Hey @JKazama

I am on the same journey. Thinking, and reading about how other successful folks have grown their audience on twitter.

Here is what I have learned so far:

• Be part of relevant conversations and share your point of view.

• Tweet often ( 1-2/day ), however I have still not started doing this on my own account.

• Use "Threads" more often to share your story/posts.

Hope this helps! All the best.

Hi bro,
I just followed you.
I'm in a similar situation. If you are just starting I'd suggest you to just interact with people on twitter. I got a few followers by doing it.
Good luck man.
https://twitter.com/seb_pob

I just followed you. :)

a really good way is to comment with value. They don't want yes or no, they want to see why. try to follow ppl and shoot them a message says u like it. It gets me a lot of followers..

I found this guide to be really good.