2 builders who never spoke to each other
Win the first hundred followers one reply at a time
Before chasing anything viral, spend real hours a day on manual interaction: liking, following, messaging, replying inside other people's threads, answering everyone who talks to you even with a single character. Leaving direct messages open matters because the most useful feedback comes from people who will not say it where others can see.
The method
- 01
Get to roughly a hundred real followers through genuine interaction before you spend any effort trying to make something go viral.
- 02
Spend a couple of hours a day liking, following and messaging the people you want as an audience, and post enough basic content that the account's purpose is obvious when they look.
- 03
Reply inside other people's threads instead of only reading them, since answering a question or piling onto a reshared post is itself a way to pick up followers.
- 04
Answer nearly everyone who interacts with you, even if the reply is a single emoji, so the audience sees the channel running in both directions.
- 05
Open direct messages to everyone, because a lot of the most useful feedback comes from people who will not say it in public.
What it returned
- 100
Maia set the first target at about 100 followers, reached by engaging with people whose work she admired.
Maia's prescription for a new account: about two hours of one-to-one interaction plus simple posts explaining what the page is for.
He describes gaining followers by interacting with content that reached him through someone else's retweet
He says it costs little time and makes people much more likely to engage with the next thing you post
Sources
- [Coaching: Maia #24] Maia’s Final Episode + Reflecting on the Journey to 6 Figures - Double Your FreelancingZach Swinehart · doubleyourfreelancing.com · AI-Generated Summary: · 2024-05-15
- Gardening Your Twitter: Growing Your Followers | Peter SteinbergerPeter Steinberger · steipete.me · Engage with Your Audience · 2020-10-21
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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