Thread by @GrammarHippy

It took me 30 days to get my first 1,200 followers.

Then 21 days to get to 3,000.
But I learned the hard way…

That “good value”…

SUCKS when it comes to getting you followers.

But you still have to tweet it.
Because without it.. your account dies.

>>> A Thread 🧵 <<<

First - context:

My account is on Twitter since 2013.
That’s why many don’t believe this:

My first tweet was on August 6th.
That’s 51 days ago.

And it got 0 likes.
Zero replies.
Nothing. Crickets.

It’s painful when you feel like you’re talking to a wall.

But then…

Slowly I started figuring things out.

People suggested to…
• Do paid ads
• Pay for Retweets
• Beg big accounts for RTs

I didn’t do any of those.
100% of my growth here has been organic.

Not a penny spent.
No “small letters”. All clean.

So how did I do it?

Well.
I noticed a pattern.

My tweets got no impressions. (Nobody saw them).

So…
The only logical way to get followers would be…

To borrow eyeballs 👀 from big accounts.

But the game changed once I hit 1,000 followers.

So read this:

If you want to grow from 0 to 1,000 use this thread:

Hundreds of people on Twitter said this is THE BEST thread on how to grow from zero.

Read it.

But if you wanna know how to fly past the 1,000 followers…

Read the next tweet.

https://twitter.com/GrammarHippy/status/1436054146021564417

So I call the 1,000 followers mark the tipping point.

That’s when you can stop using the technique I described in the previous thread…

And instead…

You can just start tweeting. Because you now have enough of your own eyeballs…

But what do you tweet about? 👇

You see… I thought tweeting value is the way to go.

But I was wrong.

Because most of the value I tweet gets me few to zero followers.

Weird right?
And annoying.

But that’s just how it is.
And I’ll tell you why it works like that:

See. There are two kinds of tweets.

1. Value tweets.
Those bring no followers.

2. Fishing tweets.
Small value. But loads of followers.

Let me tell you what I’m talking about..
And show you some real-life examples from my profile.

Here’s a value tweet:

This got 44,472 impressions. A lot.
But got me few followers.

But how the hell do I know that?

Look at the “profile clicks”.
50.

Means even if 100% of the profile visits clicked follow… I’d only have 50.

From a tweet that got 44K impressions!!!

Crazy. But see this:

This tweet would be called “crappy” be any person…

Who doesn’t understand this concept.

but it’s a “fishing” tweet.

Take a look.
Only 3,014 impressions.
Awful.

But 206 profile clicks.
So potentially 206 followers.

From a 3K impressions tweet!

But why does it work that way?

What’s the difference between the two?

Without going into too much detail…

One is more entertainment-driven… and the other is more curiosity-driven.

You see..
When I tweet…

I know how good a tweet will do.
I know if it’ll bring me more followers.

So why do I tweet both?

Because if you only tweet “fishing” tweets…

Your audience will slowly start ignoring you…

They will engage less.
You will have less authority.
Less people will remember your name.

That’s why you need both.

So how do you tweet “fishing tweets”?

Anything that creates curiosity about you…

Is a fishing tweet.

See? No value there.
But…

Curiosity makes people click to see your profile.

It’s as if they’re “adding you to cart” and some will buy (follow).

Here’s how:

Talk about yourself.
Say something weird.
Or interesting.

Anything that would make a person wanna go “who’s that? I need to check”.

But don’t go overboard.

So how do you find those tweets? It’s simple. Just get a calculator out.

Here’s how:

Step 1: tweet something.

Step 2: divide the number of profile clicks by the number of impressions.

Step 3: write down or remember this number.

Step 4: tweet again.

Step 5: divide again.

Step 6: compare.

You know what’ll happen after 50 tweets?

You’ll immediately notice a pattern.

You’ll see what kind of tweets bring you followers.

Then all you have to do is rephrase them. Again and again and again.

Or tweet something similar.
Be creative here.

But don’t forget…
Tweet value too. Don’t let your account die.

And…

Follow @GrammarHippy

But…
Make sure…

You notice which ones are his value tweets…

And which are “fishing tweets”.

And then?
STEAL IT FROM HIM!

Just kidding.
Get what works and model it.

But follow @GrammarHippy 😆

Make sure you understand…

The difference between “value tweets” that get no followers…

And “fishing tweets” that get loads of followers…

Before you continue tweeting.