getting your first 1,000 followers on
Twitter is way easier than you think
what's up everyone its ash if you're
just meeting me for the first time hi I
am a full-time content creator
entrepreneur livestream coach I am also
an author and a little bit of a public
speaker and I'm really really passionate
about helping you pursue your dreams in
the content creation and
entrepreneurship business space part of
being in this space means you learning
how to blow it up on social media when
I'm working with clients one of the main
things that we talk about is growing
their brand on social it seems like
everyone on YouTube is talking about
Instagram and that's awesome Instagram
is great but what about Twitter which I
find arguably it to be a better and
easier platform Twitter is incredibly
underutilized which means that it's a
great space for you to actually stand
out and meet more community members or
customers so I'm going to give you my
best advice as someone who has worked
with hundreds of creators to grow
themselves on Twitter let's get you to
your first 1k baby the first thing we
want you to focus on is building your
own identity I can't tell you how many
times I've gone to a creators Twitter to
see that all they do is retweet other
people's tweets there's not really a
great bio section and they don't have
great photos to represent who they are
so how do you build this identity there
are a couple of rules here the first is
know your audience don't just tweet for
everyone pick a niche and really deliver
for those people very well make sure
your bio profile banner and profile
picture represent this audience really
well you want someone in that audience
to come into your Twitter and say oh
this person can help me if possible
build some authority by using relative
acts in your bio section to show people
a little bit more about what you do even
if it's just at twitch affiliate or at
YouTube partner it will help you stand
out the most important part of you
building an identity on Twitter is
curating a feed when someone new comes
to your Twitter and looks through your
profile you want them to get a good
sense of who you are based on your tweet
this means don't just retweet other
people have a good ratio of retweets to
creation tweets I usually say aim for a
ratio of about three to one meaning
three tweets from yourself and one tweet
from someone else we'll get into what
these tweets should look like here in
just a second but the last thing that I
want to say about building your identity
is don't just automate everything I
can't tell you how many business owners
or content creators I see that put very
very little effort into actually
responding or creating unique
information to put out into the Twitter
world so many of y'all are just
regurgitating quotes that you've heard
100 times
so we've built our identity but what
should we actually be tweeting there are
three tweets that I want you to worry
about the first one is questions so I
want you to specifically think of your
audience and what conversations those
people care about then just ask a
question text only don't over hashtag it
make it very aesthetic and pretty and
easy to respond to the second is
retweets so thinking of that audience
you chose again what's maybe a fresh
perspective that you could give them how
do you speak on behalf of that entire
group of people to say something that
matters enough that people want to show
it off to their friends and followers
the third type is sharing about your
life it's great to go for all of these
engagement based tweets and to really
speak towards a specific audience but
people want to connect with you as a
person too they want to see what's going
on behind the scenes now with these
three different types of tweets I also
want you to mix up the media types that
you're using so instead of just plain
text throw in photos from time to time
use video and use gifts the Twitter
algorithm is actually going to serve
those specific media types to the people
that consume them someone who really
loves watching videos on Twitter is more
likely to see your tweet with a video in
it if someone really likes looking at
gifts on Twitter they're gonna be more
likely to see your tweets if there is a
gift there yes it's gif not jiff don't
at me so now we've got our identity and
we've got the types of tweets that we
should be creating
but let's talk about the amount of
content what I see with a lot of
traditional digital marketers or
traditional businesses is that they
think Twitter is basically a spam system
the more tweets that you create the more
likely people are to find you right
u-unless you're just absolutely no
lifing twitter like our friend trouble
truck then show me where in the rules it
says a dog can't play support people
know that you're automating everything
and it can come across a little robotic
what I tell my clients is to aim for one
main tweet daily switch it up between a
retweet able a question or sharing about
your life responds to every single
person who interacts with that tweet
also it's really important that you're
making sure to get involved in
conversations and responding to people
in that specific niche that you've
chosen to be part of I can't tell you
how many people don't do that and
because of that the Twitter algorithm
doesn't end up sending their tweets to
anyone the algorithm will send your
tweets to people that you interact with
you get to control whether or not people
see you on their feed now getting to
your first 1k followers is a slow burn
at the very beginning of content
creation on any platform is really hard
because you just don't have the
attention yet you can definitely feel
like you're screaming into the void but
be patient it's going to take some time
but respond to people get engaged talk a
lot and it will come I know it's really
frustrating to feel like you're ignored
at first you might want a result to
using a ton of hashtags or getting
involved in like retweet groups or just
other kind of scummy ways of trying to
grow but you don't have to get desperate
it will come it just takes a little bit
of patience and you play the long game
did I miss anything here is there
something that y'all would add to help
someone get to their first 1,000
followers on Twitter let us know in the
comments down below if you haven't seen
this video by the way this one is all
about how I grew over 50,000 followers
on social media click on that thumbnail
check it out I'll see you over there I
love you so much
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