Despite the restriction of 140 characters, Twitter is becoming a powerful social media with a whopping 200 million active users.
Twitter is today the micro blogging giant used not only for personal interaction but many businesses houses find creative ways on Twitter to get more visitors.
You can use Twitter to talk about up-coming events and status updates. Please remember that people are probably following you because they want to be kept informed. And if you are a business owner, it gives you a great opportunity to let all your followers know instantly about your sale campaign up without costing you a penny.
The secret to succeed on Twitter is for you to constantly interact with your followers. The more you interact with your followers and answer their questions the more likely they will keep following you and return repeatedly to your website.
Some of your most loyal fans may be following you on Twitter so it’s necessary that you let them know you are listening. Initiate conversations by asking for peoples opinions on your Twitter page. Make it deliberately controversial without offending people and you will be stunned by the number of retweets you get.
It will be a worthwhile idea to tie in your Twitter account with your blog. As soon as you write a new post on your blog, post it simultaneously to your Twitter followers. You will get an incredible surge of traffic after every post is made, especially if you are building up followers.
It would be a brilliant idea to run a contest on Twitter. There is no more effective way to get robust followers than to run a contest. Getting robust followers is important, because there are plenty of ways to get fake followers if you want to merely improve the stats. It is purposeless having a lot of useless followers except for bragging.
You need ‘real’ followers that can help make your business and website money. Run a contest where someone has to follow you to enter and maybe retweet a certain message about the contest to get another entry. It may be a cumbersome to set up, but there are many software applications for running these contests. The boost of followers you can get from a contest is truly tremendous, but you have to make sure you are giving away an attractive prize.
Make it a point to follow some of the big twitter users in your niche and promote their content. Find those people who have 10,000 followers and see what makes people want to follow them so much. There is no harm aping what they do. Never forget visual content. The obvious rule is –
Why tell them, when you can show them?