Thread by @Shadaya_Knight

How To Grow & Maintain Your Twitter: Simple Things

[A Thread]

1. Have A Specific Area Of Expertise

One reason why your Twitter may not grow or be relevant is because you're available everywhere, you have no specific area you specialize in. What am I saying? Have one field that people know you for, this goes from politics, economics...

religion, science, entertainment, relationships & so on. You can't be a specialist in everything, have a target audience, you'll become part of a community. Yeah, sure you can talk about other things here n there, but always remain to the core of your expertise

2. Respect Your Avi/Profile Pic

This isn't Instagram, Facebook or WhatsApp where you can just change your profile whenever you feel like. People underestimate the power of the avi, once you've made your mark here, people will always identify you with that avi...

It's your Twitter identity, the moment you change it, you lose a lot of followers & also become invisible to a lot of people who already follow you. Don't confuse your followers

3. Don't Join Retweet Groups & Follow Trains

Sure on paper retweet groups appear to be a clever way of growing your Twitter, but from experience Twitter bots end up shadow banning your account Once an account is shadow banned it becomes only visible 2 those who already follow it

This is whereby your account will no longer be appearing on the search bar & your tweets as well on a trending topic won't be appearing on the searched trend even if they have many likes & retweets. You're only visible to your followers, meaning can't grow anymore...

Not to mention you even risk getting your account suspended the more you retweet tweets in a robotic manner. At the same time, your tweets on your own timeline are overshadowed...

The same applies for follow trains, obviously you'll see some positive gains, but no account can ever grow to be that big (unless it already was) from follow trains - if you'll observe it's the account with the follow train that gains more than those actually looking 4 followers

The moment you hit a thousand followers, time to let your account grow organically. Just put out great content for a specific audience & it'll grow steadily but surely. You actually get to have followers who actually engage with your content

4. Utilize the Retweet Or Like Tool & Polls

What do I mean, one of the simplest ways to get people to see your content or engage with it, do the competition tweet - compare 2 things & ask your followers to either LIKE or RETWEET, it sounds simple but it's effective...

Make sure the RETWEET option is for the most popular thing of the 2, so the more people who retweet, the more people you reach. If you didn't know, a retweet has more impact than a like, try to get as many retweets as you can...

Polls, also a great way to increase engagement on your tweet, even if they're not to comment, the fact that they voted works in your favor, they count as engagement. Do polls of things that people would love to vote on

5. Avoid Drama

Yeah sure everyone wants to be a savage, that's the coolest thing on Twitter. And yeah while drama can make you one of the biggest or relevant accounts, it can also lead to your demise, you're one wrong tweet away from destroying your account...

Try to avoid drama, this app can be very toxic. A lot of things shouldn't be put here, your source of income, your relationship status, your background, it can, infact it shall be used against you at some point. And then you'll cry mental health...

Unless you're an influencer or some celebrity, no one hear should know about your private life. This isn't a real place, you can actually ruin your real life over tweets, risk reward analysis is very important

6. Last but definitely not least, actually enjoy yourself on this app. Yes, above everything else be here for a good time, everything else follows. Don't force it

Simple tips but go a long a way!