Growth hacking
Techniques for Twitter
By Romain Simon
www.romainsimon.net
Article originally publishedon webmarketing&co’m

#1 Hijack the trafic
When youshare a link on Twitter,display a
bar on topof it to promoteyouown content
Example: http://share.romainsimon.net/27

Tools to do it :
 Headsha.re : http://www.headsha.re/
 TrafficJacker : https://gumroad.com/l/trafficjacker
 Snip.ly : http://snip.ly/
TIPS :
 It must be discrete (but with a visible call to action)
 Users should be able to close it easily
#1 Hijack the trafic

#2 Use lists to boost your followers
Add people to interesting listsin mass to
catchtheirinterestas theywill receivea
notification and gain followers

Tools to do it :
 TacticsCloud : https://tacticscloud.com/
TIPS :
 Never add people to lists they wouldn’t want to be in
 Don’t add people to more than one list at a time. Remove duplicates
 If your list has more than 5000 accounts, export and split with Excel
 Once exported to Twitter, change the description by default exported
from @tacticscloud on March 21st, 2014”
 Avoid doing agressive advertising, prefer a real description
#2 Use lists to boost your followers

#3 Auto-Favorite tweets
Favorite tweetswith interesting keywords.
People will receivea notification and a mail
from twitter.and eventually followyou.

Tools to do it :
 TwitFox : http://www.twitfox.com/
 TargetPattern : http://targetpattern.com/
TIPS :
 Unfortunately, this technique is overused in some niches (try to tweet
« growth hacking ») : be smart witrh your keywords!
#3 Auto-Favorite tweets

#4 Multiply visits from your tweets by 4
Postyourtweets4 timesat 6 hours
intervals instead of 1.
You will get about 4xmore visits.

Tools to do it :
 Buffer : http://bufferapp.com
 Hootsuite : https://hootsuite.com/
 1001Tweets : http://www.1001tweets.com/ (beta)
TIPS :
 Don’t do it for all your tweets
 Do this only if you tweet a lot (ex, Guy Kawasaki does this)
#4 Multiply visits from your tweets by 4

Disclosure
Usethese4 techniquesin an intelligent way
thatdoesnot ruin theexperience on twitter.
if you don’t :
 It will no longer work
it’s probablyalready thecase for the auto-favorite and list techniques
 Twitter will ban it
Theyalready did it for thefollow-unfollow technique
 Your account will get suspended
Be smart
And i will kick your ass

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