Best Techniques to increase followers in Twitter !!!

Twitter what an interestin place to keep on posting and tweeting an dsharing your thoughts to our friends but what can be my twitter to get more attentions and followers and so I being working in this industyr since long thought to share and bring before some of the good and techniques.

Some of the tactics are listed below:

a. acquiring followers
b. maintianing followers
c. Getting people to react
d. Using the right tools

“acquiring followers”

1. Use an avatar image, a picture of a person, you is best
2. Only use a logo as avatar in case your brand is already established
3. Link your homepage in your profile, not LinkedIn or FriendFeed etc.
4. Let employees tweet as real people
5. Do not collect many more people you follow than you got followers

“Maintianing followers”

1. If you’re on Twitter for business, limit the private tweets to a reasonable percentage
2. Use direct message only for person to person conversation, not for broadcasting
3. Link to yourself only occasionally
4. Reply to other people, especially when addressed directly
5. Do not tweet dozens of times per hour, that’s flooding
6. Tweet manually not via automated scripts

“getting people to react”

1. Ask simple and direct questions
2. Break news stories or be among the first to spread them
3. Cover Twitter both on site and on your blog
4. Mention and socialize with already popular and active Twitter users
5. Tweet link to outstanding resources helpful to others

“using the right tools”
1. A Twitter client for the device you mostly use to access Twitter
2. A tool that helps you track the mentions of your name, brand or most important keywords
3. A way to gain quick overview on what’s going on, on Twitter
4. Some WordPress blog integration to connect your online presence to the Twitter community
5. A favorite short URL service with analytics, proper redirects etc.

This are some of the very good method.which I collected.I hope you enjoy it .Keep tweeting.......