
You can make the best use of Twitter to leverage and market your online business. Here are 8 sure shot ways to increase your Twitter followers:
1. Retweet: Let your followers know what retweeting is. Encourage them to retweet your links. Retweeting actually moves your @username to visibility and results in more clicks back to your profile. You can also track your retweets with the help of retweetist.
2. Put your twitter profile everywhere: Yep, put links to your twitter profile everywhere. Link it in Digg, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs, email signature and in any places that you exist online. You can also go to twittercounter. Com for cool twitter feedburner-type badges.
3. Bring twitter in your physical world. Put your twitter account on your business card, when you do an office presentation, give a speech or even when you talk casually with people.
4. Take pictures: Pictures have the ‘retweet’ effect and spread easily. If you are using mobile pics, you can use iPhone applications like Twitterific and Tweetie, both of which are known to help quick uploading.
5. Follow the top twitter users, see what they are doing, what kind of content they write and what they tweet about. See how they address their people
6. Reply to or participate in #hash tag meme. If you go to search.twitter.com, you will see the hot trendy topics. Search for the #hash topics and participate in the conversations.
7. Start a contest. Ask people to retweet your content, and you will soon have thousands of followers.
8. Track your performance in twitter. TwitterCounter will show how many new people, you have added per day and Qwitter will email you if someone unfollows or leaves your tweet.