{"id":1743,"date":"2016-11-16T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2017-02-28T07:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T07:49:32","slug":"now-9000-followers-on-twitter-read-about-the-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/now-9000-followers-on-twitter-read-about-the-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Now 9,000 followers on Twitter – Read about the changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I creeped over 9,000 Twitter followers<\/a>. Let’s take a look at the changes 9,000 bring…<\/p>\n

\"9,000<\/p>\n

On the 5th October my Twitter account<\/a> reached 8,000 so it’s still around 5 weeks per thousand new followers. My aim is to reach 10,000 followers by Christmas. I think it will be tight, but doable.<\/p>\n

Some of you may have read my post about a Twitter follower complaining about my tweets<\/a>. Well, I did take his views on board and I reduced my scheduled tweets from five a day to two a day. The problem for him remains though as I use the same tweet on a Monday and Wednesday for two different Twitter chats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have upped the latest news tweets I do per day and I stagger my tweets more than I did before (one every couple of hours or so). I also still keep Saturdays mostly free of tweets while I’m out with my daughters.<\/p>\n

Follower News<\/h3>\n

I did a little more active following over the last week which attracted another 450 or so followers. I am very careful to not do too much following and I usually limit myself to 100 a day max when I do it. I rarely do this but\u00a0the ’10k by Christmas’ is possibly one I will pursue, just to see how well I can do.<\/p>\n

The ratio of follow backs was high (70%) because I targeted the followers who were likely to follow back. I use a few tools for social media and one of those tools really honed in on the right users to follow.<\/p>\n

I know you probably want to know what I use. This is part of what I do\u00a0so I’ll instead point you to the social media management packages<\/a>\u00a0or the social media training package<\/a> on Inspiring Joe \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

What I will say is that I don’t buy followers. This is me, sitting down at the computer, to find people with similar interests. I have tools that make finding them easier but none of it is automated.<\/p>\n

Influencers<\/h3>\n

\"Interview.\"<\/p>\n

I’ve seen another big jump in those with big followings who follow me first. Although I’ve just reached 9,000, I noticed yesterday that a lot more\u00a010K+ accounts were following me first. As you reach each new thousand this happens more and more frequently. It’s probably obvious but my stats do back this up.<\/p>\n

Twitter Activity<\/h3>\n

Likes and retweets are steadily increasing but frustratingly the interactions with others is still slow and difficult, unless I’m on a Twitter chat.<\/p>\n

Website Acquisition<\/h3>\n

\"Website<\/p>\n

The stats are finally out of balance because the organic search visitors have increased considerably. Even so, 15% of visitors are coming in through Twitter so the effort is still well worth it.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/h3>\n

Each thousand is noticeably different to the previous thousand. This is still the case when you reach 9,000.<\/p>\n

Even now there is little interaction and I had thought that by now I would have seen a noticeable difference. I do chat a lot to local people, I do get a lot of likes and retweets. Very few quote with their own comments which is a shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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