How to Grow Your Twitter Following

And have fun while doing so!

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Okay. Before you start reading this wisdom-packed article, let me be frank and put my hairy balls on the table. I’m a putz on Twitter. I have a teeny tiny following there and I’m not going to pretend anything else. And I’m most certainly not going to pretend I have that stupid blue bird figured out. I haven’t.

Then why the red monkey bum should you listen to me? Well, maybe you shouldn’t. Maybe you should go to some blowhard marketing “growth hacker” and pay $500 for a Twitter course where they’ll tell you to follow a gazillion random people in the hopes that they’ll follow you back. But maybe you’d rather spend that money on, I don’t know, food, and would prefer to hear an honest take from a fellow writer who has had a few recent revelations about how Twitter works.

You see, I realized a few things about Twitter that I was utterly ignorant about just a few weeks ago. And that’s even though I created my account back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth (2008).

Until about two years ago, I only used Twitter to shake my fist at strangers. I didn’t even scream at them in all-caps, which is something that at least would have left a trace on the platform. Worse, for many years I didn’t use Twitter at all.