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5 basic tips to get more Twitter Followers.

So you’ve joined twitter and your tweeting away but is anyone listening? Here are five basic tips to increase your Follower count

1) Contribute and share: Share some news tips or tricks. If people feel they can learn from you they are more likely to follow you.

2) Twitterfy Other profiles: If you have just started a twitter profile you probably have a facebook and/or myspace profile. Leverage these, other profiles and your blogs to increase your exposure.

3) Tweet often; Use this tip with caution. Leaving your followers in a pile of useless offtopic tweets can often result in an unfollow. However, do tweet often. It is proven that the more you tweet the more people follow you!

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4) Promote discussion: Interact with followers and ask them to offer their opinions. if they use @ reply they have not only generated another link to your profile but they have put your name in front of all their followers.

5) Step away from the spam: very often new tweeters are looking to get followers as fast as they can. While their intentions maybe good some times they come across spam like. Spam = bad. Be a human!

Bonus Tip: Be careful when using the blip.fm and twitter intergration. Sometimes people update their tweets every 3 minutes with what they’re listening to. This can be a pain and turn followers away!

Fin!