Did you realize that most of the time, your bio on Twitter is the determing factor for whether people will or will not follow you? It’s a make or break point. The more concise your bio, the more you attract “targeted” followers. Many people think the more followers the better, but the truth is, according to Lauren Dugan, Co-Editor of All Twitter, “the number of followers you have doesn’t usually matter as much as the quality of followers you have, especially if you use Twitter for business.”
What does your bio say?
Statistics say Twitter profiles that have a bio will attract up to eight (8) times more followers than profiles without bios. You have 160 characters to make an impact and activate action. This task can be quite a challenge. Here are some tips:
- You don’t have to tell us everything about you. Get your priorities straight. You are a complex person and your business is too. It might take some serious thinking, but you need to prioritize just what it is you want to get across to your followers that defines you. Being a happy husband, a proud daddy and a golf addict might be large parts of who you are, but if you are using Twitter to promote your online graphics designing business, these might not have a place in such a short bio.
- Focus on critical keywords that describe you and/or what you do. Think about it as SEO for Twitter. Think about things that people would search for to find you, and try to include those keywords in your Twitter bio. Your followers will be more likely to stick if they were searching and found you based on relevant keywords.
- Think about what kind of followers you want to attract
- Be real; be you. Describe yourself, what you do. Mention your hobbies, interests, and/or niche, industry (what you mention should be relative to your profile’s focus). Why are you on Twitter in the first place? Try to answer this question in your bio. You don’t have to do it directly, but if your bio says you are a social media expert and all you do is share cat photos and videos on Twitter, your followers will probably start to fall off.
- For heaven’s sake, don’t tell us you are an expert or guru!
Include a website in your Twitter profile. When the website supports your bio, you increase confidence in your profile. Now, you just have to make sure tweets stay relevant.
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My twitter bio says: @TaylorAdams4Me
Simply building branding and business: sponsorship properties, advertising, marketing consultation, business development and telcomm products and services.
www.TaylorAdams4Me.com
Now, post your twitter bio and twitter handle, so we can follow you!
Great post you put up! I think its worth reading. Thanks for sharing the tip. I know how twitter can be an asset to social networking or social media.
download smoitheng like TweetDeck and divide people into lists, so it’s easy to keep track of your favorite tweeps I tried that, but it doesn’t work. The list views only show what people tweet, not what they retweet, so I’d miss a lot of what people would like to share. If you know of a setting I haven’t found that would fix it, that’d be great.
Thanks! Going back in your archives to learn all I can!
Well, Twitter is a conversational paotflrm for me. I spend hours in discussions on there. And Tweepme looks again like quantity over quality. So no, sorry, not for me. Cheers Luckily most of my followers share both my purpose and my value system for being on Twitter and have similar interests including being Australian. Autofollows completely kill the integrity of my follower database . Instead of 4,000 Australians interested in the same things I am interested in , I end up with 20,000 who aren’t interested in anything I like at all. Autofollows will kill Twitter’s value for anyone who uses them. But I don’t mind. Let the spammers buid their following, and spam each other I’ll keep quality over quantity, thanks. By the way, think of Twitter as a party. A big party if you fill the room with interesting people you can dip in and out of many conversations during the evening. You don’t have to be in all of them at once. But if you fill the room with people you share nothing with except you all invited each other, you will have quite a different kind of evening.
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Great article, thanks for sharing your ideas. As an avid twitter user, I would definitely follow those people who have bios compared to those who haven’t. A followers first impression will be based on the user’s bio. First impressions usually lasts.
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