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Watch your follower to following ratio - Day 4 Twitter Tips and Hints

While it is true, there are no rules on twitter. I would however argue there are some good practices you should consider when you are on twitter. The tip for today is one of those good practices you need to adopt if you hope to have a successful twitter experience in my opinion.

Watch your follower to following ratio

This especially comes into play when I look at new followers to see if I want to follow back. I rarely if ever, will follow someone like the two tweeters you see below. And what you are seeing in these numbers is just one of the problems with the way they are using twitter.

What I see a lot of new twitter users do is start following a number, usually a large number of people on twitter. The mistake they make is they get a ratio that looks a lot like what you see above. Whether it is intentional or not, you will appear like a twitter spammer (twammer). When you first start using twitter, I would encourage you to follow a few and give them time to follow you back. Take it in baby steps for a week or two if necessary. What you will find is reaching your first 100 followers will take some time, but you will grow very fast after that. Don’t be in such a hurry to gather followers that you follow too many, hoping they follow back.

Don’t end up with a ratio like the two above. Your twitter experience will be better for it.

Leave your comments and questions on the tip for today. Let’s keep the conversation going.

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Full post as published by Blawg for Profit on June 04, 2009 (boomark / email).