It’s funny but true when this history professor says that “there are some topics we discuss that need more information” than Twitter’s 140 character limit allows. It’s also nice to hear a teacher talk about technology and say, “it’s going to be messy but that doesn’t mean bad.” Welcome to the social web, where that’s a great attitude.

So if you’re really interested in getting more followers, you should:
1. Do remarkable things elsewhere (Outsite of Twitter).
2. Get to know people outsite of Twitter.

From experience, people pay attention to someone who’s popping from time to time with valuable links and informative thoughts though. It means that you won’t get people’s attention if you spend all day on Twitter posting and sharing stuff every minute, it’s spammy some how. Sign into Twitter regularly, to connect with other people and share with them things that might be attractive (Know what to pick up).

In my opinion, you should not focus most of your effort on Twitter. The results of a poll started by Darren Rowse about blog readers vs Twitter followers show that most of you agree with me as 84% of people prefer more blog readers than Twitter followers.

However, you still have to be interesting on Twitter in order to KEEP your followers. People followed you for some reason doesn’t mean they will not unfollow you if you bored them! Being interesting and helpful on Twitter as you are elsewhere (Your blog) makes other people pay attention to your tweets and makes them more likely to read your other content.

In conclusion if you would like to:

GET followers: Do interesting things outside of Twitter.
Keep followers: Be interesting on Twitter.

Also do not forget to redirect people to your Twitter page by including your Twitter URL on:
• Your blogs and/or websites.
• Your forum signatures and email footerS.
• Your social media profiles.

Actually, I was one of these people who voted for blog readers for some reasons I’ll list below:

• Promotion on Twitter do not work.
As it’s a social network I believe that if you try to redirect Twitter users to your blog you will not succeed, because if you keep advertising your website on Twitter you’re some how annoying your followers as social networks were meant to be used as an information and a fun chat service for friends to share what they are doing or what on their mind, not spamming products and services every minutes.

• Less potential of earning money.
Even if you have a million followers, I think there is less potential of earning money – compared to a blog. You can only put some ads on your Twitter Page which means you’re disturbing your followers, or do some marketing stuff which lots of people didn’t succeed in it.

• Blog readers = Lots of potential.
With feed subscribers, there’s a much higher chance they actually are interested in your content and will be back to read future posts.

The point from all this, is to not focus all your effort on generating traffic or followers to your Twitter profile but to your blog.

Thanks for your attention
- Oussama

• Follow For a Good Reason:
“Follow me, I follow you back” – “Follow me and win a free domaine name” … These are crap. You won’t feel Twitter as Twitter if you follow someone expecting him to pay you back somehow. The reasons you should be following others are either you’re interested in connecting with him or you’re interested in his content and looking for more..

• Be Active:
Communicate with your followers and the people you follow. Make them feel you’re on Twitter, share with them your experience and be generous.

• Be Smart and Intelligent:
Do not annoy your followers or the people you follow with stupid posts that make no sense. Be smart and know what to share.

• Talk from Experience:
Do what works for you, do not talk about something you know nothing about to keep yourself away from being stupid.

• Do not Sell Yourself:
Do not bother yourself and the others by posting and spamming your account with ads which earns you few cents. Post something you feel it’s worth to share.

• Do not Promote your Website a lot:
If you do, people would think that you’re on Twitter only for promoting your website, and this might force them to not follow you, because you don’t have much to say. However, you can still promote your website from time to time but with caution.

• Do not spam others by sending them tons of direct messages each day. This is such a bad thing. (Might get you banned from Twitter though)

Thanks for your attention
- Oussama

So I’ve decided to start TwitTipsCenter, a blog dedicated for Twitter Tips in general, including Posting on Twitter, Growing your followers count and benefit from it. Moreover, free Twitter Tools, Twitter Graphics and a lot more.

Want to know more about me and TwitTipsCenter get on my About TwitTipsCenter page.

Other than that – Keep in mind the blog is all new so it’ll probably also take me a few weeks to get into full swing of publishing. I’m not intending this to be a daily publishing blog (at least not in the short term) – so subscribe to my feed and follow me at @TwitTipsCenter but don’t expect to be inundated with new posts multiple times a day!

- Sincerely
Oussama