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How can you get someone who is famous to follow you on Twitter if you are an average or ordinary person?
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Same as for anyone who doesn't follow many of their followers.
0. Follow them.
1. Ask them a direct polite question in relation to something that they posted.
2. Use their name as a #hashtag while saying something complimentary
3. ditto for less than complimentary (not recommended).
4. Retweet them, adding a comment to the end.
5. Befriend them in real life.
6. Tweet on similar topics to them, without being annoying or vulgar.
7. Write an interesting article mentioning them and including your twitter username (become a press mention).
Don't do anything rude, or you'll be blocked.
Some celebs only follow their real life friends, industry folks, or other celebs. It's not an insult, it's just a choice. Be warned: most of the time when a celeb has a good follower/following ratio, you are actually being followed by their marketing team, which is running Twitter by/for/as the celebrity. And you will be unfollowed the moment you start to try to market to the celeb. I know, that's me doing that thankless job for one particular celeb who shall remain nameless.
0. Follow them.
1. Ask them a direct polite question in relation to something that they posted.
2. Use their name as a #hashtag while saying something complimentary
3. ditto for less than complimentary (not recommended).
4. Retweet them, adding a comment to the end.
5. Befriend them in real life.
6. Tweet on similar topics to them, without being annoying or vulgar.
7. Write an interesting article mentioning them and including your twitter username (become a press mention).
Don't do anything rude, or you'll be blocked.
Some celebs only follow their real life friends, industry folks, or other celebs. It's not an insult, it's just a choice. Be warned: most of the time when a celeb has a good follower/following ratio, you are actually being followed by their marketing team, which is running Twitter by/for/as the celebrity. And you will be unfollowed the moment you start to try to market to the celeb. I know, that's me doing that thankless job for one particular celeb who shall remain nameless.
First follow him/her... Some popular people out there will follow you right away. Ellen DeGeneres followed me when I followed her. ^^
If you want to send him/her a private message through twitter, just send a direct message. Tell the person to follow you too because you're a super fan of him/her. lol Or maybe just say anything nice. I think this would work. :)
If you want to send him/her a private message through twitter, just send a direct message. Tell the person to follow you too because you're a super fan of him/her. lol Or maybe just say anything nice. I think this would work. :)
voted helpful: hartwell
Voted as best: kareul
Just a quick comment. You cannot send a Twitter user a private/direct message unless they are following you. You can however use @ and their username to respond to them directly.
Oh I see... I thought it's okay cause I saw some direct message being sent to me by other users I don't quite know.
Anyway, thanks for letting me know. :)
Anyway, thanks for letting me know. :)
CONTENT....that is the quick and easy answer.
1. Follow the famous person.
2. Respond to their queries... @jason always asks questions, reply....
3. The better the content the better chance of being followed.
You can not DM someone you follow, but they can DM you. DM=direct message.
In general, I have found that you should follow people in your field of work and get noticed....now with Twitter lists, you will get added to many lists and your following will regularly increase. It is a new feature at Twitter...time will tell of its value.
In the end, its about what you say....make it interesting and people will follow you.
Hope that helps somewhat.
ps. I am on twitter as @tchachra
1. Follow the famous person.
2. Respond to their queries... @jason always asks questions, reply....
3. The better the content the better chance of being followed.
You can not DM someone you follow, but they can DM you. DM=direct message.
In general, I have found that you should follow people in your field of work and get noticed....now with Twitter lists, you will get added to many lists and your following will regularly increase. It is a new feature at Twitter...time will tell of its value.
In the end, its about what you say....make it interesting and people will follow you.
Hope that helps somewhat.
ps. I am on twitter as @tchachra
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Network your ass off. Don't market yourself as someone you're not, people pick up on that. Also don't melt into a pile of fanboy goo if they write, just, keep your cool! The more you're involved in the conversation, the more you'll be noticed, and odds are the more you'll learn.
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www.twitter.com/jackbogdan
voted helpful: hartwell
1. Create an interesting and compelling blog or podcast.
2. Produce lots of content to gain experience and improve your product
3. Add a twitter "follow me" button on your web site
4. Comment on other related blogs and news stories to build credibility.
5. Call in to Leo's "Tech Guy" show with a good technical question.
6. Plug your show on the air & provide your twitter handle.
or
Retweet a celebrity's tweet with a good response
John Wheeler
Producer of "This Week in Nuclear" podcast
Follow me on Twitter at "theJohnwheeler"
2. Produce lots of content to gain experience and improve your product
3. Add a twitter "follow me" button on your web site
4. Comment on other related blogs and news stories to build credibility.
5. Call in to Leo's "Tech Guy" show with a good technical question.
6. Plug your show on the air & provide your twitter handle.
or
Retweet a celebrity's tweet with a good response
John Wheeler
Producer of "This Week in Nuclear" podcast
Follow me on Twitter at "theJohnwheeler"
source(s):
my experience
my experience
voted helpful: hartwell
1 Follow them
2 Post responses to their tweets, IF you have something to contribute
3 Follow people they follow
4 Post responses to tweets of people they follow, IF you have something to contribute
5 Be genuine
6 Don't be a stalker
7 Don't ask to be followed
2 Post responses to their tweets, IF you have something to contribute
3 Follow people they follow
4 Post responses to tweets of people they follow, IF you have something to contribute
5 Be genuine
6 Don't be a stalker
7 Don't ask to be followed
voted helpful: hartwell, angusn, martymankins, dotchilatham
Closest I've gotten is to have them retweet you, not follow. @ reply them about something important but not so important that it's actually been covered by the media. Anything for a good charity is usually worth a retweet, so start looking.
Follow their tweets, build rapport and be different. Make your tweets interesting and entertianing so you connect with the person and not not the FamousPerson
Wrong
@FamousPerson - your right - that was great - go man!!!
Right
@FamousPerson - I agree - it's like slim in the bath sometimes it looks pretty but you never ever want to have to deal with it'
Wrong
@FamousPerson - your right - that was great - go man!!!
Right
@FamousPerson - I agree - it's like slim in the bath sometimes it looks pretty but you never ever want to have to deal with it'
I found that celebrities follow people who run a fansite about them.
Maria Kanellis (@MariaLKanellis) has been a "WWE Diva" for 5 years now. I run www.Maria-Kanellis.org and she follows and replies to me often because of that. I've seen other celebrities follow people who run websites about them too.
-@Eminemdrdre00
Maria Kanellis (@MariaLKanellis) has been a "WWE Diva" for 5 years now. I run www.Maria-Kanellis.org and she follows and replies to me often because of that. I've seen other celebrities follow people who run websites about them too.
-@Eminemdrdre00
Put #twist in your tweets. @stevenklein
Well, not that I'm terribly famous by any stretch, but I do host a number one national morning show. I have a rule for following people: If followers engage me in meaningful conversation I will follow them. I don't blindly follow people back who don't contribute to what I call "The Virtuous Circle" of conversation. If I crowd source a question via Twitter I will follow back anyone who responds. But I would warn against simply following famous people who don't care about their followers. I spend at least an hour a day writing to the people who follow me. Conversation is a two way street. I'm @ClaytonMorris on Twitter for those who want to chat! Cheers.
voted helpful: tchachra
In my experience with someone famous following me, it was a matter of providing valuable tweets that gained their trust. My two rules for this particular person were:
1. Don't be a crazed fan. Just tweet reasonable content. Watch the content and interest they post on Twitter and provide relevant responses when you have something relevant to post. Making up stuff just to try and get them to follow you back doesn't work.
2. Once they follow you, don't get angry if they unfollow you at a certain point. The famous and celeb types change up who they follow on a regular basis. They are more particular about who they follow, being extra cautious and hand picking the content they see in their Twitter feed. Responding back to them by asking why they unfollowed out is not recommended. If you have valuable content, continue to reply back to them when the content is something you feel is of value to them. If they decide to follow you again, so be it.
Treat them how you would want to be treated on Twitter is the rule of thumb I follow.
1. Don't be a crazed fan. Just tweet reasonable content. Watch the content and interest they post on Twitter and provide relevant responses when you have something relevant to post. Making up stuff just to try and get them to follow you back doesn't work.
2. Once they follow you, don't get angry if they unfollow you at a certain point. The famous and celeb types change up who they follow on a regular basis. They are more particular about who they follow, being extra cautious and hand picking the content they see in their Twitter feed. Responding back to them by asking why they unfollowed out is not recommended. If you have valuable content, continue to reply back to them when the content is something you feel is of value to them. If they decide to follow you again, so be it.
Treat them how you would want to be treated on Twitter is the rule of thumb I follow.
The first question you'll need to ask and answer truthfully is, do you have something that is of interest to the person whom you want to get to follow you (which I'll refer to as the target from here on out)? This interest could range anywhere from having specific knowledge in an area they are interested or involved in, to just having the same sense of humor, or anywhere in-between. Answering no to this question is the deal-breaker, regardless of if the target is famous or not. How many Twitter users do you follow who you find *uninteresting*?
The next thing you have to determine is if the target really gives a damn about their Twitter followers or if they're just using this medium as another PR gateway. You should be able to tell this by their activity on Twitter. Use your best judgment so you don’t waste time and effort on an unachievable goal.
If you have that basic foundation to build upon the next thing to do, immediately, would be to stop thinking of yourself as an average, ordinary person. You need to believe you're on the same playing field as the target. If you are someone who doesn't have much of an ego then reverse that and start thinking of the target as an average, ordinary person. After all they are, right? They deal with average-ordinary problems and they make average-ordinary decisions. Many people equate: celebrity equals money and money equals no problems. Those people are wrong. Celebrities are living life, just like the rest of us; and life, as they say is, the proverbial bitch. We should all be able to agree with that, assuming of course that you haven’t lived your life in some utopian society I’m not familiar with.
The next thing you have to ask yourself is, did you see Donnie Brasco or pay attention while watching The Sopranos? "Why," you ask? I'll tell you why, you need to determine if it you're "a friend of ours" or if you're just "a friend of mine." Just so I don't lose anyone here, let me explain. In mob-speak if you're introduced as "a friend of ours" you're a made guy (already part of the mob). If you're introduced as, "a friend of mine," you're just some jamook off street. Are you a made guy (e.g. someone who's already on the target's radar) or are you some jamook off the street (e.g. someone who needs to find a way into the target's inner-circle)? Now if you're the "made guy," then just being relevant and interesting to the target should get you where you want to be or it should make it a hell of a lot easier.
No offense meant here, but I'm assuming you're "some jamook off the street." This means your job is going to be a whole lot harder, as you need to find a way onto the target's radar. What follows are three fool-proof (YMMV) strategies for doing just that.
Engage at a More Meaningful Level
Twitter is great and all, but the interaction there is not very meaningful. That may come off sounding a little harsh; I just mean it's not really the best platform for meaningful full-length discussions, IMHO. Twitter is still on the path to really defining itself, but one thing it isn’t at this stage is a useful way to engage in meaty discussions. Hopefully your target has a blog. That is the perfect place to find something the target is discussing in which you also have insight into or something interesting to add. Find posts that resonate upon that common interest that you’ve already identified. Start making comments on their blog, watch for comment replies from the target and continue making these exchanges. The more recent the posts the better and the sooner you can comment the better. It goes without saying that it’s better to be on the first page of comments than to be the 500th comment on the 20th page. After a few of these exchanges try to work your Twitter handle into the sign-off of your comment. Make it a call to action as well, something like, "Hey, you should really follow me on Twitter, @Me." Make sure you use a link if possible. Watch the tone you use with that call to action, make sure it is appropriate. Don’t do this too soon and don’t continue to do it every time (especially not with the same text). You’ll have to feel out when is the right time to do this, just like taking a relationship to the next level (and I mean that in a very analogous, non-stalker-like, way). After making your initial comment on each post, tweet something like “just commented on an interesting post about topic-x on @target’s blog. http://link.to.blog.post.” Be sure to spread these engagements over time; don’t find ten blog posts you want to comment on and do them all in a day. Try to gauge the targets Twitter usage time for the tweets you send to increase your chances of them seeing your tweets. If you can detect any patterns in their blogging habits use that to your advantage as well, so you can be an early commenter.
Getting the, “a Friend of Mine” Introduction
The first step to becoming “a friend of ours” is getting introduced as “a friend of mine.” If you’re not on the target's radar yet this is what you’ll have to shoot for. How do you go about doing this? This technique is somewhat of a social trojan horse. Instead of targeting the target, you’ll want to focus on the people the target already engages with, i.e. the people they are following and interacting with on Twitter and blogs. The strategy here is to engage with friends of the target. The difference here is that instead of just focusing on a particular topic of interest, (you still want to do that as well, but…) you want to watch out for if they talk about the target or even are commenting on something the target blogged about. The benefit here is two-fold. First, it is common for a blogger to follow the pingbacks from other blogs where they will also read the related post and comments; (this is what you're hoping your target will do). If the target is following these people on Twitter it’s likely that they also follow their blogs. You'll want to be commenting and making yourself present on those other blogs as well, engaging in the conversation. Secondly, you’ll also want to try to get the target’s friends to follow you. This creates a few advantages. It is common for people to follow Twitter users which their friends are following. Also, if a friend of the target @replies you, the target may see that particular reply and look into who you are and maybe even make the decision to follow you as well. After all, no one likes to be left out of a good conversation.
The Golden Rule
BE GENUINE! Shouted because it needs to be. This is key which will cause everything else you've done to have the effects you desire. If you're being a phony people will smell it from miles away. Be genuine!
That's it. You should be on the road to having celeb followers in no time.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I hope you find it useful.
The next thing you have to determine is if the target really gives a damn about their Twitter followers or if they're just using this medium as another PR gateway. You should be able to tell this by their activity on Twitter. Use your best judgment so you don’t waste time and effort on an unachievable goal.
If you have that basic foundation to build upon the next thing to do, immediately, would be to stop thinking of yourself as an average, ordinary person. You need to believe you're on the same playing field as the target. If you are someone who doesn't have much of an ego then reverse that and start thinking of the target as an average, ordinary person. After all they are, right? They deal with average-ordinary problems and they make average-ordinary decisions. Many people equate: celebrity equals money and money equals no problems. Those people are wrong. Celebrities are living life, just like the rest of us; and life, as they say is, the proverbial bitch. We should all be able to agree with that, assuming of course that you haven’t lived your life in some utopian society I’m not familiar with.
The next thing you have to ask yourself is, did you see Donnie Brasco or pay attention while watching The Sopranos? "Why," you ask? I'll tell you why, you need to determine if it you're "a friend of ours" or if you're just "a friend of mine." Just so I don't lose anyone here, let me explain. In mob-speak if you're introduced as "a friend of ours" you're a made guy (already part of the mob). If you're introduced as, "a friend of mine," you're just some jamook off street. Are you a made guy (e.g. someone who's already on the target's radar) or are you some jamook off the street (e.g. someone who needs to find a way into the target's inner-circle)? Now if you're the "made guy," then just being relevant and interesting to the target should get you where you want to be or it should make it a hell of a lot easier.
No offense meant here, but I'm assuming you're "some jamook off the street." This means your job is going to be a whole lot harder, as you need to find a way onto the target's radar. What follows are three fool-proof (YMMV) strategies for doing just that.
Engage at a More Meaningful Level
Twitter is great and all, but the interaction there is not very meaningful. That may come off sounding a little harsh; I just mean it's not really the best platform for meaningful full-length discussions, IMHO. Twitter is still on the path to really defining itself, but one thing it isn’t at this stage is a useful way to engage in meaty discussions. Hopefully your target has a blog. That is the perfect place to find something the target is discussing in which you also have insight into or something interesting to add. Find posts that resonate upon that common interest that you’ve already identified. Start making comments on their blog, watch for comment replies from the target and continue making these exchanges. The more recent the posts the better and the sooner you can comment the better. It goes without saying that it’s better to be on the first page of comments than to be the 500th comment on the 20th page. After a few of these exchanges try to work your Twitter handle into the sign-off of your comment. Make it a call to action as well, something like, "Hey, you should really follow me on Twitter, @Me." Make sure you use a link if possible. Watch the tone you use with that call to action, make sure it is appropriate. Don’t do this too soon and don’t continue to do it every time (especially not with the same text). You’ll have to feel out when is the right time to do this, just like taking a relationship to the next level (and I mean that in a very analogous, non-stalker-like, way). After making your initial comment on each post, tweet something like “just commented on an interesting post about topic-x on @target’s blog. http://link.to.blog.post.” Be sure to spread these engagements over time; don’t find ten blog posts you want to comment on and do them all in a day. Try to gauge the targets Twitter usage time for the tweets you send to increase your chances of them seeing your tweets. If you can detect any patterns in their blogging habits use that to your advantage as well, so you can be an early commenter.
Getting the, “a Friend of Mine” Introduction
The first step to becoming “a friend of ours” is getting introduced as “a friend of mine.” If you’re not on the target's radar yet this is what you’ll have to shoot for. How do you go about doing this? This technique is somewhat of a social trojan horse. Instead of targeting the target, you’ll want to focus on the people the target already engages with, i.e. the people they are following and interacting with on Twitter and blogs. The strategy here is to engage with friends of the target. The difference here is that instead of just focusing on a particular topic of interest, (you still want to do that as well, but…) you want to watch out for if they talk about the target or even are commenting on something the target blogged about. The benefit here is two-fold. First, it is common for a blogger to follow the pingbacks from other blogs where they will also read the related post and comments; (this is what you're hoping your target will do). If the target is following these people on Twitter it’s likely that they also follow their blogs. You'll want to be commenting and making yourself present on those other blogs as well, engaging in the conversation. Secondly, you’ll also want to try to get the target’s friends to follow you. This creates a few advantages. It is common for people to follow Twitter users which their friends are following. Also, if a friend of the target @replies you, the target may see that particular reply and look into who you are and maybe even make the decision to follow you as well. After all, no one likes to be left out of a good conversation.
The Golden Rule
BE GENUINE! Shouted because it needs to be. This is key which will cause everything else you've done to have the effects you desire. If you're being a phony people will smell it from miles away. Be genuine!
That's it. You should be on the road to having celeb followers in no time.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I hope you find it useful.
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Voted as best: achieve75
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