How did you grow your twitter followers?

My tips:

1. Publish content (blog, ebook, whatever) and link back to your Twitter
2. Reply fast (within 1 minute) to big accounts in your niche, so you get mentioned and gain a lot of impressions.
3. Write interesting stuff. Give people a good reason to follow you
4. Explain this reason in your bio, with a short pitch of yourself.

Extra: a few days ago I saw a post here on IH about Indie Hackers following each other on Twitter. I see this kind of post every month or so. It's a good opportunity for a start.

I usually outsource my marketing efforts and Twitter growth is definitely one of these as it's pretty time consuming.
I had a lot of success using Hypegrowth and steady follower growth of 400 followers or so per month.

Who is your target audience? I've also just started to invest in twitter a bit more (only at about 100 followers - up from ~20 last month). What's working for me so far is:

• sharing the learnings from building my company
• sharing data I have as a result of running by business that other people probably don't know [0]
• following people who are my target users and post about my space

(See example tweets below [2], [3])

In an onboarding call yesterday, I learned that the new user found my product because he has a saved search for AppleNotes (a competitor). I had referred to AppleNotes in my tweetstorm, so it came up in his saved search. I'm curious to explore if other users who are actively looking for new notes tools have a similar saved search for competitor tools - perhaps they do in your space too?

Also want to link back to this useful post from IH this past may [1].

[0]: Content marketing handbook: https://priceonomics.com/the-content-marketing-handbook/
[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-indie-hacker-guide-to-building-a-twitter-audience-89d227e300
[2] data tweet: https://twitter.com/cara_jacqueline/status/1280937230144425984
[3] personal learnings tweet: https://twitter.com/cara_jacqueline/status/1283453964323708929

Here's how I've been doing it. And it comes with results, grown many times since that post.

However I've decrease my Twitter time now that it's not very important to what I need right now.

It's all about the value you provide with the credit you have.

I found this course very useful to grow the twitter audience and account overall.

I would argue that online presence is completely unnecessary. I know plenty of founders who are not online, as far as their real identity, and they are still making lots of money. One "big win" example that comes to mind is Plaid CEO, he's got like 400 tweet followers, and sold the company 5 billion dollars. You need to be where your customers are, but that doesn't mean online, or at least not on social media.

There is only an illusion that you need to have a social media presence, created by people who are either really good at it, or figured out how to hack it, and now want others to compete in the social media space, because they are already #1 and you competing for social attention only propels them forward, while giving you nothing in return.

Here is my twitter handle: https://twitter.com/mutamuls
follow me, I follow you back