The Real Secret to Get 12K Followers on Twitter

How you are with your friends, people you love and care about?

When you meet them for coffee or drinks, do you stand on the chair and throw your business cards at them, screaming about your latest big launch?

Do you walk around the restaurant forcing people to stand around you and be part of your herd, since you promised to be part of their herd first?

Do you pay someone $99 dollars to find a bunch of random bodies to sit at your table?

Of course you don’t.

That’s not how we develop relationships with people we care about.

When we are around people in our real-life in-person communities, we act real.

• We share our stories.
• We listen to each other’s stories.
• We ask questions and listen to the answers.
• We respond to each other’s questions.
• We share something we just discovered and are excited about.
• We share resources that we honestly believe will help the other person.
• We introduce people to each other who we think would get along.
• We fix people up who we think would really get along.
• We check in with each other if it’s been a while since we’ve talked.
• We share stuff that is funny or bizarre or gross or stupid.
• We go on adventures together.
• We give gifts.
• We tell inside jokes.
• We debate issues that are important to us.
• We help each other with our challenges.
• We ask for help when things get hard.
• We find out what’s wrong if we sense there’s a problem.
• We celebrate each other’s successes.
• We morn together when things go bad.
• We apologize when we screw up.
• We call each other on our bullshit.

Bottom line –> We act like human beings who care about other human beings.

If you want twitter to work for you, if you want to develop real relationships with your followers, if you want any of this to actually mean something …  that’s all you have to do — treat people on twitter like you would treat friends in your regular life.

Act like you care about people you know on twitter.

Better yet, actually care about people you know on twitter.

You don’t need a guru or expert or A-list blogger or even me to tell you how to be a human being.

All you have to do is take massive action that’s naturally inspired from that caring place.

And the real relationships will follow.

#thatisall

P.S. I’ve seen stats showing that 10K followers can pull the same number of click-throughs on a tweeted link as 1 million followers. You don’t need big numbers of followers. You need engaged followers. People you have real relationships with. People you care about, who care about you in return. If you want a bullshit ego inflation mechanism go ahead & build up a big follower count. If you want to have an amazing life & amazing relationships & an amazing business, you have to care.

#nowthatreallyisall

How has your experience been on twitter?

What has worked for you? What has not worked? Where did you find your greatest success?

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