Now that you have an account, have done some following and have some followers it’s time to contribute and meet some new people.  (Note, for the first few weeks I suggest following people in your niche or interested in your niche so that you build a base of people to build relationships with.)

The whole follow people and get followed back practice, in mass, was not very appealing to me before but I now mix up the techniques that I use to get followers.We can talk more about this in a bit.  Today it is all content.

When I got start on Twitter I was posting about things that I did throughout the day.  I was pretty boring posting random activities from my day.  Maybe six to twelve posts per day.    Then I began posting some of my favorite quotes.    I would sit down on Sunday night and schedule quotes for the entire week.  I was sending out 2 to 3 posts a day at this point.

I realized that I was earning a lot more followers by posting famous quotes than I had been gaining by Tweeting about myself.  So there it was, I was adding more value and the response was incredible.  The more valuable my Tweets the more followers I gained.

As I learned more and more about Twitter posting good content I posted more and more quotes for a few months.  With that in mind I began posting about my favorite blog posts from my favorite bloggers.  Once I began Tweeting links to my favorite content my my number of followers grew exponentially.  I have always used Googe Alerts to follow my favorite topics and all of my niche keywords.  So I began to put Google Alerts to work.

Every morning I would read through my dozens of Google Alerts and I began tweeting links to my favorite blog posts or articles that I was getting from this great service that Google offers.    I was using Tweetlater to schedule all of these great stories and was getting more followers than ever before.

When I saw the success of Tweeting about my favorite content I started to Tweet about my own content.  The more content of my own that I wrote the more I posted links to my blog.  And the more often I blogged the more Twitter followers I got and the more readers I acquired for my blog.

So I experimented a lot and started finding out what was driving the most visitors to my blog and what topics garnered the most interest from the Twitter community.