Want more people to follow you on Twitter? I was looking for tasteful Twitter strategies on how to get more people to follow me the other day, and I came across a horde of uninspiring articles offering just that: Tips on how to get more people to follow you on twitter. It was like trying to find a murder weapon in the murk of a deep dark lake, especially if miscellaneous junk had been dumped in the lake over the years.
Anywoo, I finally stumbled across this comprehensive article by SEO-INRA titled “Want me to follow you on twitter?…10 Reasons I Won’t !”
This definitely sums up some of the reasons why *I* also would not follow some Twit peeps and allows you to look at your Twitter account in retrospect and get tips on how to improve on your content and followers.
Here are some of the tips that i found interesting:
1. Gosh!, you are not using user avatar
…or your user avatar is neither a personalized photograph nor reflective of a brand.
More important than whether or not your Twitter profile background is “designed” is how you choose to present yourself in that seemingly insignificant 48×48 pixel square. If that square is empty, impersonal, or otherwise lacking any qualities that will immediately allow me to visually associate it with you, my immediate response would be “Who the F**k is that”. If I am going to build a Twitter relationship with you, I want to see you, or your brand.
2. You list no location, no website, or no bio
Clearly, Twitter is all about brevity. So how difficult is it to provide a few additional characters of information that may offer potential followers more impetus to follow you in return?
These fields take two seconds to populate; it would behoove you to take those two seconds to populate them.
3. Your “website” listed is a MySpace profile
…or, far worse, an AngelFire “page.”
If the Twitter user in question happens to be an actual teenager, or musician whose MySpace presence truly works for them, then fine. But I tend to pass over those users whose proffered web presence is, well, clearly doing it wrong.
It doesn’t take much these days to establish a web presence that seems genuine and thoughtful, and appears to intend to attract and build an online community based on the content it provides. so go on have your online presence, rather then just a profile.
4. You’re following over 1,000 users, have 20 followers, and no updates
…or, worse, one update that includes a shamefully ill-constructed mention of Jason Calacanis.
Who, aside from those running Twitter apps that automatically follow and unfollow followers, would add these Twitter users? While I may every so often and uncharacteristically give these users a chance, simply to see what sort of content, if any, they may eventually provide, the gratuitous mention of any higher-profile Twitterer or web-famous personality means little more to me than that you were properly able to spell “Calacanis” or “Kawasaki.”
5. Your profile features any variation of “Internet expert”
…or “social media expert” and you have very few and/or insubstantial updates.While I generally loathe any mention of the word “expert” in a Twitter bio, it is particularly egregious when paired with a Twitter stream of only five updates, or one with a plethora of updates that make me question your “expert” status. You’re an “expert” who is only now tweeting about a Twitter app that everyone else was tweeting about two months ago? How awesome for you! #and you want me to follow you on that? Huh! Jerk…
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