Do you have a twitter account for your blog? If not then the first thing you do after reading this article is to create a twitter account.
I joined twitter few weeks back and in the beginning I started following some names and faces that I know from my blogging world. Actually it was a bit of excitement being in twitter because you can see so many conversations going around and you are watching it. The messages or tweets keeps pouring in like anything every second.
One of thing I noted was, even though twitter seems to be crowded I haven’t gathered enough followers even after following so many people in twitter. Then I realized that if I had to make the most of twitter I should know the people whom I should be following.
This is when I came across a post in TwiTip.com which gave me a list of individuals who have large followers and are influential. I have added a few more into the original. The very moment I clicked the follow button for all these below people I can’t say how surprised I was to see the list of people following me increasing. My followers list increased from 15 to 60 in just 3 hours…Can you believe that but its true…
Thanks to Darren Rowse for putting up this list in his blog.
Problogger : @problogger – ProBlogger is a blog about…. Blogging
Copyblogger:@copyblogger – Bio Copyblogger, Teaching Sells, DIY Themes, Lateral Action and sub-radar sites.
Guy Kawasaki: @guykawasaki – Twitter Bio Online magazine editor.
Jeff Pulver: @jeffpulver – Twitter Bio Technology Anthropologist”; Entrepreneur; Early-Stage Seed Investor; speaker, Living in Social Media.
Chris Brogan: @chrisbrogan – Twitter Bio Social media type, but love the emerging enterprise tech space, too.
Liz Strauss: @lizstrauss – Twitter Bio Social Web Strategist – I show businesses & universities how to choose and use social media tools to make business growth faster and easier.
Jim Long: @newmediajim – Twitter Bio New media soul trapped in an old media body.
Brian Solis: @briansolis - Twitter Bio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Solis
Laura Fitton: @Pistachio – Twitter Bio much excitement and geekiness about where this all leads.
Steve Rubel: @steverubel - Twitter Bio (from website) Exploring how emerging technologies are revolutionizing marketing communications.
Robert Scoble: @scobleizer – Twitter Bio Tech geek blogger @ http://scobleizer.com.
Gary Vaynerchuk: @garyvee – Twitter Bio I do this: http://tv.winelibrary.com and I care about this: The health and happiness of my Family and Friends. Keep it simple.
Hope you liked the list. I would be happy to hear from you whether this list helped bring more traffic to your blog and also if you think there are other people that one must follow in twitter then please mention them in comments section.
I would be very happy if you could add me as well in your list @bloggertalkz
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Whereas that’s not a bad list, the problem with it is that almost none of them will ever respond to you if you happen to write them. The one exception I’ve found, so far, is Guy Kawasaki, and only if you send him a DM and it’s relevant to something he’s been talking about. For me, I’d rather have some people I can at least talk with to follow.
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Hi Mitch,
For a start up blogger its a good way to bring in more readers to their blog.
Thanks for your comments. I understand that some of them might not respond early but these people have huge followers which results in a huge traffic flow to your blog and also people who want to follow you and want to talk with you. I have tried the same and has found many followers who are interested to talk with me
Please put in your list of people in the comment section whom you think is worth following.
Thanks once again and hope to see you around.
Cheers
Krish
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Mitch (8 comments.) Reply:
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:09 pm
This may sound odd, Krish, but I don’t really have a list of who would be good to follow; isn’t that a shame? I follow a bunch of people, of course, but the people I’ve segregated to follow more closely are friends, and my local news, so everyone else is just grouped together. I guess I haven’t through as much about specific people I follow as I should.
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I think these are great examples of people to follow for new users to get an idea of what kind of tweeting / topics make for great Twitter conversation. And you never know.. if your tweet happens to be picked up by one these power users, and they RT it, then you are in for a whirlwind of traffic. One of mine was picked up by a Twitter user with 16,000+ followers, and that article has now been RT’d more than any other article I’ve posted.
~ Kristi
Kikolani’s last blog post..Twitter Lingo & Tips For New Twitter & Facebook Users
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Very true we never know one power user can make a lot of difference resulting in lots of traffic. Its nice to know that your article recieved so much of traffic
. I should say that you have posted some interesting articles in your blog.
Cheers
Krish
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