Using Twitter - How can I make this work for me?

I had hoped to have all of these posts in chronological order, but as I started it a little late, I'm thinking that it simply won't be possible.  It is more important to me that they represent a history of what I did and when I did it.

OK, so this leads me to this post.

I have used Twitter before and I know how hard it can be to get followers.  I also realise the difference between follower quantity and follower quality.  Lots of people following me that are just following me so they can get their own count up really doesn't help me that much...but it does help a bit.  If you have a lot of followers, your account looks better...and let's face it, it is possible to get lucky from a random follower.

And of course, if you have more followers than people that you follow, your account looks like something people want to listen to.

Looking to see how to get my count up, I joined a thing called Twiends, but that is a topic for another post.

Today, with a grand total of 39 followers, I decided to do something a little different.  I searched for the term #pigs.  Wow, there are a lot of people that don't like the police on Twitter!  That said, they are obviously not my target audience.  I was looking for people that liked pigs so much they included it as a #hashtag.

I have even included a few that like to cook pigs...just to see if they liked them enough to play a game about them!! lol

Out of that brief search, I have found 12 new people to follow.  Not many, I know, but I just want to see if those few will make a difference.  Unfortunately, not many of them have many followers.  This could well be a failed experiment, but I am not going to give up just yet.

Have you used Twitter successfully before?  What techniques do you use?

Over the course of today, I will be tweeting a single tweet in their direction along with my normal tweeting.  in 8 hours, I'll do this again to get people on the other side of the planet :)

The journey continues...

AG

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