Some tweeters who employ this micro-blogging tool for their online marketing business just keep on sending tweets, advertising their business or whatever service or product they offer. They even use automaton to make the sending of tweets automated. TweetLater for instance, they use it to schedule their tweets. This strategy may work but at a very small probability. Responsiveness is a virtue in Twitterverse. It should be two-way. This means that it is not only your followers you should reply on your tweets, you are the one they follow should also respond to their tweets.

Followers that are responsive of your tweets are your assets. You can easily ask them favor to retweet what you tweet. Responsive tweeters are those that follows you naturally and are really interested about your business—the service or product that you offer. You can measure the responsiveness of your Twitter followers by asking a somewhat mind-provoking question. Observe how many of your followers respond or retweet your question.

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* Tweet to celebrities. Of course, most of the celebrities do not follow you. Your only chance of getting your tweet read by them is to reply on their tweets. Make sure that your tweet makes sense or something that would grab their attention. Tweet something usual. When the celebrities will find out your tweet, they will reply in return. That would make your tweet name appear on their Twitter feeds. In Twitterverse, when a celebrity replies to someone who’s anonymous, tweeters would think that that someone is, in a way, has a value because of his valued tweet. People would follow you in the end. Voila! You get more followers in an instant.

* Do not follow anyone you see. Choose who to follow. There are some tweeters who are actually automated. They are considered robots. Their tweets are scheduled. Have time checking their profile if they are real persons or just a spam account.