I stopped “working” to get followers after about 1,000 people and instead concentrated on content and connecting with other people as genuinely as I can. Building friendships, replying to everyone possible, and showing people that one person can truly make a difference in the world by doing simple every day things all helped this along.

If I see someone out there I’m interested in, I might follow them, but really I wait for people to find me now and do not aggressively “recruit” – - for me, Twitter has become a relationship building experience and not a numbers game.

When I adopted that attitude, my presence on Twitter changed and became more rewarding. It makes it easy to gain followers, but more importantly, easy to connect with some wonderful people.

Take care,

Shawna Coronado says Get Healthy! Get Green! Get Community! http://www.thecasualgardener.com, The Green Blog – http://www.gardeningnude.com, or The Garden Blog – http://thecasualgardener.blogspot.com

I stopped “working” to get followers after about 1,000 people and instead concentrated on content and connecting with other people as genuinely as I can. Building friendships, replying to everyone possible, and showing people that one person can truly make a difference in the world by doing simple every day things all helped this along.

If I see someone out there I’m interested in, I might follow them, but really I wait for people to find me now and do not aggressively “recruit” – - for me, Twitter has become a relationship building experience and not a numbers game.

When I adopted that attitude, my presence on Twitter changed and became more rewarding. It makes it easy to gain followers, but more importantly, easy to connect with some wonderful people.

Take care,

Shawna Coronado says Get Healthy! Get Green! Get Community! http://www.thecasualgardener.com, The Green Blog – http://www.gardeningnude.com, or The Garden Blog – http://thecasualgardener.blogspot.com

be yourself!
be bold!
be respectful
be engaging
be useful
offer fresh perspectives
be playful
be genuine
be yourself!

Twitter ID: DianaRusso

be yourself!
be bold!
be respectful
be engaging
be useful
offer fresh perspectives
be playful
be genuine
be yourself!

Twitter ID: DianaRusso

When I decided to dedicate myself to understanding Twitter, at the end of December (for my job hunt in media planning integrating social media), I wasn’t Tweeting very often.

I didn’t know anybody, and since I only followed a few people, my Tweetstream was kind of slow moving & boring.

The most important thing I did at the start is to find interesting people and follow them! I started following Twitter ‘experts”, journalists, politicians, celebrities, everyone and anyone in advertising (my field). I found that at least 2/3 of the people I follow, just out of politeness or to grow their own, follow me back. If they have interesting conversations or Tweets, I’d RT, comment, ask questions and when comfortable, start chatting with them.

Now, I’m a little hooked on following interesting people and seeing what’s going on with them in real time (like Demi Moore’s Twitpic shots from the hair & makeup chair before a photo shoot).

I hit the 2,000 following wall about 3 weeks ago, the point at which you MUST maintain a following/follower ratio of 1.1:1 (you can only follow 10% more than the number following you). So now every time I find someone interesting I want to start following, I have to go back and remove someone else interesting from my Twitterstream. Its a real pain and slows the process of being able to DM someone.

This is just one of the strategies I use – I also agree with all of Rachel’s strategies in her post.

In 10 weeks, my Twitter following has grown to 1,400.

When I decided to dedicate myself to understanding Twitter, at the end of December (for my job hunt in media planning integrating social media), I wasn’t Tweeting very often.

I didn’t know anybody, and since I only followed a few people, my Tweetstream was kind of slow moving & boring.

The most important thing I did at the start is to find interesting people and follow them! I started following Twitter ‘experts”, journalists, politicians, celebrities, everyone and anyone in advertising (my field). I found that at least 2/3 of the people I follow, just out of politeness or to grow their own, follow me back. If they have interesting conversations or Tweets, I’d RT, comment, ask questions and when comfortable, start chatting with them.

Now, I’m a little hooked on following interesting people and seeing what’s going on with them in real time (like Demi Moore’s Twitpic shots from the hair & makeup chair before a photo shoot).

I hit the 2,000 following wall about 3 weeks ago, the point at which you MUST maintain a following/follower ratio of 1.1:1 (you can only follow 10% more than the number following you). So now every time I find someone interesting I want to start following, I have to go back and remove someone else interesting from my Twitterstream. Its a real pain and slows the process of being able to DM someone.

This is just one of the strategies I use – I also agree with all of Rachel’s strategies in her post.

In 10 weeks, my Twitter following has grown to 1,400.