Most of us are looking for interesting people to follow on Twitter, but a lot of the time we aren’t actively thinking about finding people to follow. Here’s a great tip for you bloggers that requires no trickery, no gimmick, no plugin, and minimal effort on your part.
It’s simple. At the bottom of your blog post, simply write something like this:
You can follow me on Twitter: @TristanHigbee
That’s it.
It takes care of part of the problem of wanting to follow interesting people on Twitter but never thinking to follow people on Twitter. When you stick that line at the end of a blog post, you remind people.
Here’s an example I’ve seen in the wild from Ben Nesvig:
And then I saw this a couple days ago on one of Jared Erondu’s blog posts:
In both cases, I clicked on that link to Twitter to see what kind of stuff they tweeted.
Simple, right?
Oh and by the way, I’m on Twitter.
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I haven’t done that thing yet. I think merely writing our twitter handle like that is more effective than author widgets and some social follow plugins. I think many of us, including me, don’t follow this simple trick
I think so, too. I mean, no one ever looks at blogs’ sidebars anymore, right? Thanks Jakes.
Yes Tristan, a simple yet seemingly very effective way to grow your Twitter following. I think’ll I’ve be adding this to my posts as well now :). Thanks for sharing this cool tip with our BizSugar community.
Ti
No problem, Ti. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Would never think of a simple thing like that. I hate when I miss such obvious great ideas :)
I wouldn’t have thought of it, either, but I’m good at noticing what other people are doing :) Thanks Brankica!
Seems like a great ideal with little effort to get a couple new followers. I like to use Twiends and YouLikehits but they take some extra effort.
Love this short and wonderful tip. I will have to try it. Thanks! I wonder if I can add it in my author box. Will check it out!
Great post: a simple idea but looks like it could be very effective. My first thought was be that if a blogger already has a call-to-action below the post, for example an email opt-in, free ebook message, etc. it might not be as visible or get too cluttered. But since it’s actually in the post, as in your example above, that shouldn’t be an issue. Thanks for sharing!
I like it. Very simple, practical, and straight forward way to let others know you’re on Twitter. I think I’m doing that as well.