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<\/p>\nSo in five weeks I’ve grown my Twitter account by another 1,000… yay! \ud83d\ude42 I also hit 30,000 tweets on my account during this period… double yay! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Here’s a breakdown of what happens when you have 7,000+ followers plus some talk about my tweeting milestone…<\/p>\n
For the most part I did little ‘active’ following for followers. By this I mean a large number of the new followers were not being followed by me first.<\/p>\n
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The last 100 followers I did push hard and, just like every other time, those last 100 were really difficult to get. I had to follow 400 people to get 100 to follow back, a MUCH lower ratio than normal but I expected it for that last push.<\/p>\n
For me getting new followers to follow me back is always easiest on a Tuesday. I’ve experimented on every different day but Tuesday is the best day for me to get new followers… by a mile!<\/p>\n
Likes and retweets have risen but more importantly more influencers have retweeted and I’m also growing the number of people who regally retweet my tweets.<\/p>\n
It really does it easier and easier to\u00a0increase natural followers, RT’s and likes as you progress.<\/p>\n
If I use a trending hashtag in a tweet I’ve noticed more people like and retweet. One such post had 115 engagements which I think is my highest yet…<\/p>\n
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I tend to not use trending tags that often. I only normally use them when I think it is going to bring a smile and some clicks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Reaching 30,000 tweets is a big milestone for me. It’s something that seemed to sneak\u00a0on me quite quickly. I’m very active in the Twitter chats like #TorbayHour so they do speed up that figure a fair bit.<\/p>\n
I’m trying to source more ‘latest news’ than I have before and I’ve also reduced slightly my schedule daily tweets. I’ve also stopped all scheduled tweets on a Saturday so I can use it for photos etc when I’m out and about.<\/p>\n
I’m constantly tweaking and messing around with what I do on Twitter but it is still the platform I enjoy using the most!<\/p>\n
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