How to grow your Twitter account with quality followers

Over the past five weeks I’ve added over 500 new engaged followers to my Twitter account.
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A slow burn and still growing, but each follow is a highly engaged account.
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Heres how I’m growing my Twitter account with quality followers 👇
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🔥 Its definitely a slow burn, but that means I’m getting a quality audience. I’d rather 1 quality follower than 100 non engaging accounts.
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🗓 Post everyday - this shows you are active and engaging. Do not automate this. Each post has to show its you sharing something, not just posting for the sake of posting
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🔎 Find and engage with the larger accounts in your niche. Follow these users, follow their followers, follow the lists they have created or ones they feature on. This will fill your feed with discussions and questions you want to talk about - and inspire more content.
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📝 I took control of those new follows and added them to lists, this way I can flick between the topics I want to engage with. Its especially good if you add these lists as columns in Tweetdeck
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📢 Everytime you get involved in a discussion or post, bring value. Contribute, help, enhance, share your different opinion.

🌆 I’ve embraced visualisations. These are my hardest working posts. Take Janis Ozolins course: Explain your ideas visually. https://janis.studio/welcome It will get your head around how to make these. Plus I love making them and simplifying concepts. I use Figma -so easy.
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🧵 I post at least one thread a week. Threads are great for sharing lessons and tips. Each post is something valuable, rather than a blog post with filler. It also helps you simplify explanations and people appreciate that. Typefully makes this so easy https://typefully.com/
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📢 Don’t just retweet - Quote retweet. Your audience wants your take on what you are sharing. What are you sharing it? How would it benefit them? 🏷 Tag your posts internally with your own tags. I use FeedHive https://www.feedhive.io when scheduling and add a tag to my content. e.g - ‘Visual’, ‘Thread’, ‘Social Media’ - now I can look at my analytics and see what type of content works hardest and focus more on that
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💻 Share your journey. Using #buildinpublic, your potential customers and fans are involved in your build and will even give feedback. Already you are creating a form of loyalty and support. Priceless
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📈 Add Blackmagic https://blackmagic.so/ to your browser - so much more functionality for your Twitter account. Add notes, see forecasts, schedule, measure, favourite and so much more. This is always open in my browser when I’m on Twitter
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🤔 Optimise your Bio, tell people who you are and what you can do for them or what your mission is. People will check it out to justify following you. Heres mine. A work in progress, this is probably the 4th version.
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🕘 Retweet your posts for different times of the day. This will help get you in front of users in different time zones. Feedhive has a simple tick box for this to tell it when to retweet.
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👨🏻‍💻 Always be helping, sharing and contributing. Only then can you ask something of your followers. Give, Give, give, give, give, give, ask.

💬 Engage with at least 5 large accounts per day. Not just a like or a one word answer. Contribute to their posts, show your knowledge too. This will be appreciated, plus their audience gets to see you too. Add a notification for these accounts so you don’t miss any opportunities
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Some other helpful resources
Take Arvid Kahl's ‘Find your following’ course https://bootstrappedfounder.podia.com/find-your-following
Use Tweethunter for inspiration + find highly engaged accounts https://tweethunter.io/
Use my book for thousands of content ideas specifically for your targeted audience: The Content Ideas Machine https://vhdigital.gumroad.com/l/UOShC