There are a bunch of things you can do to grow your Twitter account, including some we don’t recommend you try.
Even though it’s tempting, purchasing fake followers is something you should avoid doing. The reality is it can give you a small boost at the very beginning of your account. It’s better to have a couple of hundred followers than 17, and the first ones are pretty hard to get. However, you do run the risk of:
Though most Twitter Follower sellers will tell you what they provide is 100% organic and undetectable, this is simply not true. If it was real, why would any person or brand pay for a premium Twitter agency? Or purchase follower ads on Twitter? Or even bother to write decent tweets?
Following a bunch of people and unfollowing them to grow your audience is 1) not cool, and 2) so 2010.
Nowadays, many free services exist to monitor the people who unfollow you, so setting up this technique will definitely get noticed.
Depending on your audience, most people have stopped following back every single person who follows them. So the follow-unfollow strategy is outdated and doesn’t really work anymore.
To be honest, this can work if you can do it at scale. The limit is 1000 DMs per day. However, you will look a bit desperate and spammy to most of the people you contact. So if you have a super large audience and no particular interest in doing business with them, this is a fine strategy. If what you’re looking for on Twitter is a business-oriented audience (entrepreneurs/founders, marketers, sales, small business owners, etc.), we suggest you either:
What seems like a great shortcut (like buying followers or spamming all of Twitter) is often a bad idea. But there are great ways of building up your Twitter audience. Here are a few of these that we strongly suggest you do if what you want is more followers that are actually interested in what you have to say.