How to increase your twitter followers

Twitter is definitely one of the fastest growing services in the web and it is showing tremendous growth in the last few months. Twitter got a tremendous boost to its growth because of its appearance in Oprah and the challenge held by CNN but even without that it was growing at a steady rate. Because of the ability to update thousand of people in an instant it is fast becoming a essential tool of internet marketers. Twitter is a great way to drive traffic to your blog , improve affiliate sales etc but to get a significant amount of traffic or affiliate sales you need lots of followers. There are hundreds of ways to increase your twitter followers , while some methods yeild good results some methods are not that great. I will show which kind of methods work best in the below sections. So to summarize this capsule you should grow your twitter followers to

• Increase traffic to your blog
• Increase affiliate sales 
• To improve your social authority
• To improve your brand

Below are some ways that you can use to increase your Twitter following , some requires work and some requires money while some methods needs you to blindly follow many others. The methods you are going to follow depends largely upon what you want to do with Twitter , how much money you can spend and sometimes upon your ethics.

• Twitter search - go to Twitter search and type in the key words you want so you can follow people who are relevant to your niche. This method is time consuming but since you are going to there twitter page and manually following them you can check out there other tweets and get an idea about the quality of there tweets , so you can stay away from spammers.
• Tweeting relevant useful content - This sounds obvious but most don't do this. The success of this method depends on concentrating on a niche. For example if you are tweeting about make money from blogging then be very careful when promoting affiliate links etc. First tweet useful content and build a trust , then tweet those affiliate links
• Authority through association - Follow top people in your niche and reply to there tweets etc. Don't spam there feed but reply with relevant content and you will be noticed by there followers. If you continually provide relevant content you just might get recommended to be followed. Getting recommended by a high profile person is one sure way of increasing your Twitter followers.
  

The above mentioned methods are a great way to build a responsive Twitter following but the process is tedious and time consuming. There are many ways to build your Twitter following quickly and automatically. Some of the methods are free and some cost you money but the free services have some drawbacks as well.

• Using professional software - You can use software that professionals use to target followers by key word. These are not just twitter following tools but advanced software that does much more. The best thing about them is that they provide you with information and warnings so you want get banned from Twitter for aggressive following. Check out TweetAdder, the best Twitter marketing software.
• Using Multi level following services - You want be getting targeted followers this way but if you manage to join enough of this services in the beginning then you have a very good chance of increasing your Twitter followers , just don't expect them to engage with you much , but good to get those initial numbers