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Abadesi

How did you get your first Twitter followers?

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Whenever I create a new profile on a platform - as I did with Twitter over ten years ago - I go straight to who I already know that's on the platform, friends, acquaintances, etc. Then I'll look for notable folks who work in a space I'm interested in. I also used to do things like follow-for-follow years ago on Twitter, but I found that I'd be following folks whose feeds I wasn't very interested in. Now I get told often by folks I mentor: 'I've set up Twitter to network in tech but I have no followers.' How did you get your first followers?
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Abiola
Started with friends and immediate network, and then started to following interesting people/funny people at first. These were the days of #nowfollowing (when it wasn't cringe), but then the combination of having a strong bio, appealing profile pic for your target audience and interacting with people so they follow you back is a winning formula. Of course, having relevant tweets for what you're trying to grow/do
Abadesi
@abxola yes interacting is key!
Rauno Metsa
Launched MakeHub on Product Hunt and got my 200 followers :) number hasn't grown very much since then, haha!
Abadesi
@raunometsa are you working on any tactics to grow it?
Rauno Metsa
@abadesi well, I mentioned you right now on Twitter! :)
Ryan Hoover
The best way to make friends on Twitter is to share something useful and participate thoughtfully in a discussion. Early in my Twitter career (or whatever it's called) I would share interesting articles with an accompanying thought/questions/idea and tag the author. This helped create conversation and became the beginning of a real relationship over several months/years.
Matt Henderson 🚀
In high school during calculus class I would follow everyone I could, then after a few days unfollowed everyone who didn't follow me back. Got 30k engaged followers in 3 months. Didn't use twitter for a few years––when I came back I mass unfollowed everyone and started over, but still kept ~20k of those followers
Matthias Hagemann
@juhaszhenderson This won’t work anymore as Twitter has drastically reduced the hourly follow rates. But your strategy was the perfect way to grow a legit audience (also created several 5k-10k follower accounts that way).
Abadesi
@juhaszhenderson wow that is incredible growth!!
Yash Bhardwaj
I found a quora answer called "What are the funniest tweets you have seen" and put my best stuff there. It did surprisingly well and had like 15k upvotes. I got like 1k-2k followers from there.
Abadesi
@yash that's so smart! which tweet performed best?
Laura
I can't remember on Twitter, since it's been years and I don't actually have followers there. But both on Product Hunt and Linkedin it's been about connecting with people I know and contributing any insight I might have, respectfully, where it's asked.
Davis Baer
I tweet about growing my startup, and have grown to over 2400 followers. I try to keep tweets unique and adding some sort of value, rather than just random thoughts. I have found that tweets with screenshots usually perform well. https://twitter.com/daviswbaer
Abadesi
@daviswbaer Thanks for sharing, yes visual images do well. Do you use gifs, too?
Davis Baer
@abadesi Not really, other than in replies
Nikolay Siabrenko
I created a Twitter bot which liked specific tweets by hashtags and got my first 300 followers in this way :) After it, I started launching projects on PH and got ~150 new followers.
Paroma Indilo
i am by no means an expert. We started by replying to relevant discussions and posting industry insights and linking to releavnt news articles. At the beginning it felt like a battle for every single user, we are now seeing followers organically find us.
Hanan
I always got the first followers from my close friends, even if it was my product profile or they didn't know about my product.
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