How many twitter followers do you have? Do you need more traffic to your website? In the following article you're going to learn how to gain followers to Twitter quickly, have them be meaningful, and then get them to click to your website.
Unfortunately, there is no easy trick to fast growth.
It took me a full year to go from 0 to 50,000 followers however that's much stronger growth than my competition and I generate between 100 and 1,000 visitors per day to my personal website.
There are a lot of methods to build numbers.
You could go find a competitor, follow the first thousand of his followers, and check in the next day to see your account suspended.
You could put a link on your website and hope people will click over and follow you there.
If you have a tremendous readership already, congratulations and if you're not on Twitter you should definitely sign up an account and then link to that account on your website.
However, for anyone getting less than 10,000 visitors/day don't expect to get any serious following numbers.
If you're up-and-coming and hungry for traffic, you should go out and follow targeted users that will both follow back and read your content.
Identify 10 competitors and bookmark their twitter accounts.
Open the five newest followers to those accounts in a new window.
Then, search for the topics you post about and open new windows for everyone who tweets about what you're writing on.
Open about 50-75 pages if your computer can handle it or break up the work and open 5 windows at a time and move to the next account.
Look at the twitter user you have on your screen and ask yourself the following questions:

1. Do they follow more than celebrities? Would they be willing to follow you back or will they ignore your effort to connect? Drop those only interested in famous people.
   
2. Do they have their account set up? At a minimum you should drop people without a profile picture and a reasonable history of tweets.
   
3. How often do they tweet? Every 5 minutes with 30,000 posts? Don't expect for them to be a real user, but someone scheduling a lot of posts and doing other things than reading what you're tweeting.
   

From there, you should probably have 30 people you should follow.
Do this every 24 hours and slowly build your following.
Twitter has a rule that you cannot follow more than 2,000 followers unless you gain enough followers to roughly equal that number.
The true ratio seems to be 1.
1:1 following to followers ratio.
You can follow 5500 people if 5,000 follow you.
Once you get to your first 1,000 followers you can start adding 70-100 per day.
Once you hit your limit, you'll need to unfollow the people who aren't following you back.
To identify who is not following you, click through your following and if you cannot direct message them, you can unfollow them.
Keep your tactics slow and steady like your following, drop 35-70 people per day.
Use my general rule that you should drop and add about 10% of your following per day and giving people at least one week and up to a month before you unfollow someone.
Once you break into the high thousands, keep your maximum following/unfollowing to 500/day.
This should keep you from facing Twitter's wrath and sending an apologetic e-mail requesting your account be unsuspended.
Know this may take you 10 minutes to an hour every night, but feel the excitement as your following grows daily.
Beyond following and unfollowing responsibly, your tweets must not be spam.
Engage with your followers.
Read their tweets and @reply them back.
Respond to direct messages.
Don't just tweet a title and link to your website or article.
On the OpportunityLOL twitter account I tweet about 5-7 posts per day, retweet kind messages, things I enjoyed reading, and talk to my friends.
Use twitter to network and not bombard people and you'll be embraced and your numbers will grow.
As you grow to a large following and you're tweeting responsibly, you should be building content on your website.
Stack up articles, reviews, interviews, and make them all visually appealing and well written.
Then, tweet every hour or two hours.
Keep business tweets to every hour maximum to avoid bothering people but feel free to engage with your following often.
You can use websites like bit.
ly to shorten links and you should make sure you use a compelling title to your articles that people will want to click on when you tweet them.
One final things, follow back.
Do it with sense, don't follow people who write in a language you can't read, people who have never tweeted, or are obvious spammers.
Yes, they may build your numbers but they will never read your content.
It's a fake number and the guy with 100,000 twitter followers isn't seen as much more successful than the man with 80,000.
By following back, you tell your followers you value them and want to say thank you for following by giving them a shot in your feed.
Feel free to unfollow them if they spam or say something offensive, but otherwise follow back most people and leave them alone.
Click their content if it's interesting and @reply them to tell them what you thought.
You may start a conversation that leads to a great business opportunity or chance to create high quality content for long term traffic.
The two main components to building your twitter numbers and growing your website using twitter is hard work and patience.
I created my account in May 2010 and posted 5-10 things/day followed and unfollowed hundreds per day, and hit 50,000 followers just the other day.
Checking my analytics, the twitter hits depend strongly on the topic and quality of the article title but the growth is still steady over time.
I've been able to tweet at celebrities with content about them or that they would be interested in and when they retweet it, expect massive amounts of traffic! Are you ready to build yourself an audience? Get out there and start following and I'm excited to soon follow you back!