A proven way to grow your Twitter audience

As Indie Hacker it can be tough to build, sell and try to build a strong audience for yourself.

Came across this strategy a while back but can't remember who shared this.

Here's the crust of it:

1. Leave 20 comments every day: When you have a small account, there's no sense in writing killer threads. 20 views won't make them go viral. At this stage, focus on commenting on your target accounts. Hang out with people one or two levels above you. Drop some comments on pages with 300-5K followers, up to pages with 20K-60K followers.

2. Send 10 DMs every day: You need engagement on your profile. Engagement comes from having good relationships with other like-minded Twitter users.

3. Write four tweets a day: Two of these tweets should be for growth, one for authenticity, and one for authority. Growth tweets are those that provide good ideas about your niche topic. Authenticity tweets are about your uniqueness: Share what you do in life, share your story, or share what you stand for. Authority tweets are case studies, testimonials, and other forms of proof. Scheduling tweets helps! Try Feedhive or Tweet Hunter.

4. Create one great thread every week: Start practicing once you've hit ~250 followers. Spend 80% of your time on the hook. Test different hooks by sending them to your friends. I built relationships and sent one great thread to 10 people, then a couple of accounts with 50K+ followers retweeted it. After that, 400 other people retweeted it. That's how I went from 800 to 1.8K followers in 24 hours.

5. Understand your final goals, values, and ideas: Pick 10 topics that you want to speak about. Tweet them until you hit 10K followers, then cut down to three topics that work best. Experiment with your style, but stick to your principles.

6. Find your why: Having a strong "why" helps with consistency.

P.S: I'm yet to find to consistently follow up with this on my own but will share updates soon.

P.S 2: Ooh, I love to read and curate ideas that you can apply to your own life. Follow me if this helped you for more stuff like this.