Twitter is an amazing online social platform that is proving to be a viable business process to add to your marketing strategy. We are seeing countless reports on how companies are using twitter and other social media platforms to engage their customers and in return dramatically adding to their bottom lines.

So how do you grow a “targeted” twitter following that does not require countless hours every week on twitter and yet still produce hundreds to thousands of new targeted followers every week?

Three ways to grow your twitter following.

1. Join www.topfollowed.com  , this is free service that will grow your twitter following. All you do is join and it does the rest.

2. Follow your competition, which have a large following and take notes. One reason they have a great following is because of the great content they post.

3. Follow- Followers, What do I mean? Follow those who follow your competition and those who appear in your target keyword searches.
*Do not follow over aggressively, as twitter will suspend your account. So be sure to read up on the twitter rules.

Final thought, learning all the guidelines on how to grow effectively a large twitter following can seem daunting and time consuming. Therefore I recommend you download the only application I have found to truly automate this process. ~HummingBird 2.0~

Here is a bonus tip:

Whenever you place a tweet, consider the topic and put that topic keyword in all caps at the beginning of the tweet. With only 140 characters people are reading tweets that catch their eye. This technique allows for people to quickly recognize the topic. Here is an example “LINKEDIN: Fast Start Guide to Linkedin Success, eBook complimentary here: …“

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~Randy