{"id":8949,"date":"2015-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog?p=8949&preview_id=8949"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:11:50","slug":"get-more-twitter-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/get-more-twitter-followers\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Proven Behaviors to Get More Quality Twitter Followers Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you struggling to get more Twitter followers?\u00a0Typically, users unfollow other users and brands when they no longer wish to see that person’s Tweets in their home timeline. Why? Twitter is a very noisy place.\u00a0Chances are you’re committing one of these common errors<\/a>:<\/p>\n

<\/span>3 Proven Behaviors to Get More Twitter Followers<\/span><\/h2>\n

1. You forgot the 80\/20 rule<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Who would you rather\u00a0hang out with – someone who is informational and interesting or someone who is boastful and self-centered?<\/p>\n

It’s hard to love someone who’s excessively self-promotional on social media<\/a>. It’s OK to periodically tweet stuff about yourself, but if your stream looks like your blog’s RSS feed, you’re not being social.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The golden social media rule is:<\/strong> Talk about the things that matter to your customers most of the time; then you can talk about yourself a little bit of the time, and they won\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n

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The 80\/20 rule<\/a>\u00a0recommends posting engaging, informational and relevant content 80% of the time and brand-centric, call-to-action content only 20% of the time.<\/strong> This ratio is meant to keep your audience engaged with your social media presence while promoting your brand and improving sales simultaneously in a way that doesn’t make the account seem like little more than a digital salesperson.<\/p>\n

How can you do this?<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Follow influencers<\/strong>, and learn from what they find interesting.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Share interesting content with your own followers<\/strong>, and try to connect to them.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Engage with your influencers<\/strong>\u00a0so it motivates them to want to share your own content.<\/p>\n

Read:\u00a04 Easy Steps to Promote your Business on Social Media when you have No Followers<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Cat\u00a0got your tongue?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Twitter is a noisy platform and users tend to browse their timelines periodically. It’s like listening to the radio in the background, rather than trying to tune in for every single song. Unfortunately, if you’re not tweeting on a somewhat regular basis, the chances you’re actually appearing in front of your followers<\/strong> if and when they tune in becomes slim.<\/p>\n

Georgia Tech researchers<\/a> examined 500,000 tweets over 15 months to find the formula for building a Twitter following, they recommend:\u00a0Tweet often, but not in bursts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Burstiness, which one user described as spamming people’s Twitter feeds, will lose you followers, but tweeting often is a good thing, since “it’s all about being visible”. In real terms, that translates to an optimum frequency of eight tweets per hour, the research showed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read:\u00a0How to Break 3 Social Media Bad Habits That Cause Followers to Unfollow Plus Solutions to Change<\/a><\/p>\n

How do you craft the right posting schedule to get more Twitter followers? <\/strong>There is plenty of research on social media posting frequency. At the end of the day, each social audience is different. It is a matter of trial and error to get the right balance. We have written several posts on the subject containing the latest research:<\/p>\n