Sunday, January 10, 2010

7 reasons why you are not getting more than 30 Twitter followers

You are following dozens of people but only 17 are following you? you are wondering if those 17 are real people or 7 of them are spams? you are asking why you are not getting more followers? then here are some hints you should consider.

1.You are using a spam(my) avatar : seriously, using such an avatar means you don’t even bother taking few seconds to change your profile picture and hence you don’t even have time to tweet. And worse, spams are mainly known to have such avatars. 
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2. You are using a hot sexy girl avatar with a username like “3spyXynF” :  Dude! you are absolutely a spam, No one has a doubt about it.
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3. Your Bio is empty or all what it tells is “I love eating stuff…<3” : When someone checks your profile, he expects a little more information about you, and the first place to look for information about you (the one he wants to follow) is your bio, an empty bio is like a bio that is saying :”what the hell you want by knowing me!
4. No location, nor website : although not as important as the bio, but these will help to get trust of people who will see your profile, consider the website as a long rich version of the short twitter Bio.

5. Your tweets are all about “Just voted something : sometimes, I come across profiles with the last 20 tweets only about “Just Voted Google might not be cool”, “Just rated a Youtube video..”. Yeah that’s really important for the person who will follow you!
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6. Hashtags everywhere : Hashtags are so useful within Twitter, but once overused they become so annoying, don’t use Hashtags on every tweet, here is an example : “Whoa #My dog #just barked, #ilove it #sofreaking much. you #guys, my tweet is damn #kewl #also XD
7. No original tweets everything is automatically posted from Facebook and Friendfeed : it’s really terrific when you have to follow 30 links to read the real post, people usually post on Facebook which is connected to Friendfeed which is connected back to some sort of other social network which is connected to twitter, so you get something similar to : “a tweet from somewhere to be… http://ff.im/whocares”. I really hate this, be in one place, or post something specific for every service, don’t share. 
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Finally, I wish your profile will shine soon ;) In the meantime don’t forget to follow me at @martani_net and check these amazing twitter tools to help you having a better experience using twitter: 47 Awesome Twitter Tools You Should be Using.

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