Choosing who to follow
Target the followers of three to five accounts in your exact niche, then filter by bio keyword, activity and follower ratio. Targeting decides your follow-back rate far more than volume does.
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Add source accounts
Paste the handles of accounts whose followers you want to reach. Three to five is a good starting spread — enough to compare, few enough to read the results.
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Add bio keywords
Filter for the words your buyer uses about themselves, not the words you use about them. "Founder", "building", "indie hacker" rather than "SMB decision maker". Every filter shrinks the pool and raises the follow-back rate.
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Set quality filters
A minimum follower count skips empty accounts. A maximum following count skips people who follow forty thousand accounts and will never see you. A last-tweet recency rule skips profiles that went quiet years ago.
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Review per source after a week
Each source reports its own follow-back rate. Most people find one or two sources outperform the rest by three times. Keep those, drop the others, add more like the winners.
What a good follow-back rate looks like
Broad targeting lands somewhere between 5 and 10 per cent. Tight targeting — people who already follow two or three accounts in your exact niche — runs 20 to 40 per cent.
That difference is the whole game. To gain 200 followers, broad targeting needs around 3,000 follows; tight targeting needs about 600. A fifth of the activity, a fifth of the risk, and a better ratio at the end.
If you are below 15 per cent after a week, the problem is almost always the source accounts or the profile, not the pacing.
More on growing
- Setting safe daily limits
Start at 20-30 actions a day on an account under three months old, 30-50 up to three months, and 80-120 once established. Spread them across your active hours — pace matters more than the total.
Still stuck? Email info@tweeksocial.com.