- Fill out your Twitter bio. Your latest tweets and @replies don’t mean much to someone who doesn’t know you. They look at your bio to find out who you are. Also, leaving your bio blank doesn’t encourage people to add you when it’s displayed on Twitter’s Suggested Users page.
- “Link it up,” suggest @kevinrose and @garyvee, two prominent personalities on Twitter. Put links to your Twitter profile everywhere on your LinkedIn, Facebook, blog, email signature, and everywhere else you live online.
- Bring your twitter account into the physical world. Every time I give a talk, speak on a panel, shoot a podcast, present slides, or hand out business cards, I figure out a way to broadcast or display my twitter account.
- Explain to your followers what retweeting is then encourage them to retweet your links. Retweeting pushes your @username into foreign social graphs, expanding your reach and resulting in clicks back to your profile.
- Tweet about your passions in life and #hash tag them. Quality content coupled with an easy way to find it never fails. If others enjoy your content, they’ll add you.
- Get onto a hot trending topic. Twitter lists these on the front page. Reply to/get involved in the memes. Look for the #hash topics and jump in on the conversation
- Start a contest. @Marismith suggested we offer a free macbook air to the top person who helped us reach the #1 most followed spot. That never happened, but we added thousands of followers. Brilliant.
- Follow the top twitter users and watch what they tweet. Pay attention to the type of content they sent out and how they address their audiences. You can find them at twitterholic.com or wefollow.com
- Take pictures. Pictures are heavily retweeted/spread around. This one from US Airways Flight 1549 has been viewed 350,000+ times. For mobile pics use iPhone apps such as Tweetie or Twitterific, both which support on the go uploading.
- Track your results. TwitterCounter will show you how many new users you’re adding per day. You can also track your retweets using retweetist and Qwitter will email you when someone unfollows you after a tweet.




