We just read that Barack Obama has more followers than anyone else on Twitter… I guess that is not too suprising since he is the President after all. What about the rest of us who are relatively unknown? For example, a couple of tiny dogs that rarely get out of the small town where we live? Our owner wants us to teach people about “social networking”, but how do we find the people? More importantly, how do we find the “right” people? We are not interested in quantity, but quality of contacts, so we try to target the people we think might be interested, or who would know people who might be interested in what we are doing.
We did some digging (pun intended) and found some great resources we’d like to share…
- Check out the Twitter users with the most followers. You might want to follow some of them. See the top 100 at: http://twitterholic.com Just click the screen name, click on the link to their Twitter page, and click the “follow” button. It’s that easy!
- We clicked on “Find People” and used the “Find on Twitter” tab to look up people we knew were on there. (Like our owner, Victoria.)
- We also used the “Find on other networks” tabs and clicked on “Yahoo” because we have a contact list in our Yahoo email. We put our email and login info in, and it provided a list of all our contacts so we could choose who to send an email to and invite to follow us. (This is also possible with Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, and MSN contacts).
- We used the “Invite by email” tab to invite other people we know who were not otherwise contacted. All you need is their email address.
- We check our homepage and started clicking on the contacts we had so far. We checked their “following” and “followers” lists for people we knew and wanted to invite to follow us.
- Put a link in your email signature line, on your website or blog so people can “follow you on Twitter”. Our link (a.k.a. URL) is http://twitter.com/RosieandDaisy (Yours would start the same and have your Twitter username in place of “Rosieand Daisy”. You can find it under the “Settings” tab, then the “Account” tab. It is listed after your username.
Here is another interesting blog on this topic by Mack Collier: http://www.searchengineguide.com/mack-collier/so-how-do-you-find-people-on-twitter.php He has some additional ways to find people.
Let us know if you have other good ideas for finding the right followers on Twitter!
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