Twitter — How I Gained Almost 2000 Followers in One Month.

A recipe for creating a following on your Twitter account.

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I wasn’t sure about using Twitter. Social media and I are associates, at best.

I made a Twitter account back in 2013. I never really used it and my ten followers sat there lonely for almost a decade.

At the beginning of April, I read that Twitter was a great place to self-promote. So, I started following and posting.

I followed hashtags like writers, authors, and topics that I write about.

From there I followed writers, particularly ones that interested me. I followed particular people and hashtags.

Once I had a decent amount of quality follows the algorithm was very accurate with suggestions. Now I could be far less picky and I could follow like crazy.

I rarely let my follows go more than double the amount of my followers. So, at 50 followers I had approximately 100 follows.

Engagements help but seem far less important than that perfect tweet. That said, I was rather active with 4–5 tweets a day and lots of liking and commenting.

Here are my most ‘successful’ tweets;

Similar Tweets gain similar attention.

The traffic does seem to filter into Medium. It’s not a huge percentage most of the time. It’s far less than some of my Facebook views when I promote there. But, it isn’t nothing!