You will need more Twitter followers to establish your online presence, to network with people worldwide, and if you’re a business person, to direct the traffic to your website.

But how will you get a boatload of Twitter followers?

Some people believe that it can be done by the posting of good tweets at specified intervals or maintaining good manners in tweeting.

Others would say that all this effort is to direct the traffic to your website on Twitter by following some people, so that subsequently they may follow you.

Now let’s analyze these two concepts.

What we understand from the Twitter users who are most popular, by looking up twitterholic.com, is that they have the maximum number of the Twitter followers.  It is also noticeable that such popular users are already well known in the real world, and they either run a successful business house or are some kind of celebrities.  So it’s not likely that they would’ve created their profiles at Twitter right from scratch, or would’ve posted good tweets, to get such a large number of the Twitter followers.  They already had followers in real world, which now continues.  But don’t think you won’t get Twitter followers because you’re not well known like them.

You want more traffic or more followers to your Twitter website.  Don’t worry that the number or quality of your tweets will affect the number of your followers.  Just handle your Twitter account as you would do with your email accounts or websites.  You should maximize your presence on Twitter in the same manner you would do on your blog.  Devise interesting tactics to get more visitors to your Twitter website and to follow you; find the reason(s) why they will want to follow you, and tell them.

Let your Twitter profile follow you, by adding a link to your Twitter website at the bottom of your emails.  If yours is an online business, then you may use Twitter for customer or technical support.  Utilize your tweets to link the articles in which your followers are interested.  This will help to get followers in greater numbers.

An effective method to increase your Twitter followers is to follow other Twitter users.  This means if you follow some people, usually they will follow you.  However, you should exercise care while doing this, as if you begin to follow many people on Twitter in a relatively short period, you run the risk of being branded a spammer.

If your desire is to create a long-term, legally valid Twitter profile, you should follow people in a gradual manner.  You should choose people who share the same interests with you or your business to follow you.  However, keep in mind that if you follow too many people, it will lead to overloading of tweets which you can’t cope up.  If you stop your tweeting, they will also stop their tweeting.

You can utilize Twitter either to drive traffic to your website or to interact with your followers to build understanding.   By following these simple guidelines, you can increase the number of your Twitter followers, irrespective of your motive.