Do you love Twitter and your followers, but aren’t sure how to interact with them in order to be considered a great Twitter friend? You’re not alone! Many individuals, authors, businesses and casual accounts have no idea what’s needed in order to be a great Twitter friend and increase the engagements with their accounts.
1. Like It
One of the easiest things you can do to engage with your followers is to like their posts. To me, a like either indicates the person really did like it, or they read it. Either way, a like is good, and it takes less than a second. If you’re wondering if likes really matter, they do. I know who regularly likes my posts. Eventually, those names become ingrained in your head, and when people think about other accounts to mention or shout-out, the liking accounts are usually first to be mentioned because they’re the first ones that come to mind.
2. Retweet It
If the post is interesting or informational or you identify with it, retweet it. Retweets can be a simple button click or more in-depth with a personal comment from you. The good news about commenting on a retweet is that you’ll also see the image impressions, likes and retweets of that post on your feed.
3. Mention Accounts You Love
It’s all about the shoutouts and writers' lifts and mentions. If you really love an account and find them extremely entertaining or useful, mention them. These mentions can be done at any time during the week, or you can participate in #followfriday. No matter how you do it, mentioning a list of great people to follow gets you noticed.
4. Post Interesting Things
Post interesting things that others may also like. This can be your own articles from your website, other people’s website articles or things you are working on. Some accounts also ask questions and post polls. What you need to do is figure out why people follow you and what makes you interesting or unique. Then, do what makes you great. For me, it’s posting informative and/or entertaining articles. For you, it might be posting random polls, asking questions on certain topics or posting about the crazy things that happened to you during the day.
5. Limit Your Complaining
Social media, including Twitter, are the anonymous ears no one ever gives you in real life. I understand. I also understand that life is hard. People can be difficult, and things don’t always go your way. Trust, me. I’m one of those people where if I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. However, I almost never complain, or at least, my interesting posts outweigh my rants and raves about things that are pissing me off.
It also goes without saying that is all you ever post are complaints and gripes, you are going to lose engagement and potentially followers, and other accounts may also choose to mute you, which means unless they click on over to your profile, you’ll disappear from their view. The bottom line. No one wants to hear you complain 24 hours a day, nor do they want to get notifications about your complaints on their cell phones and tablets. Instead of complaining, focus on talking about your projects or posting things that other people may find interesting.
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Being a great Twitter friend doesn't have to take hours, and it doesn't have to mean leaving a comment or talking for hours when you should really be doing something else. Instead, it’s simply being mindful, engaging where appropriate and remembering that you are just as interesting as all the other people on Twitter.
