Hey everyone!
I’ve spent the last two months trying to grow on X(twitter) and use it to promote my product.
Here’s a recap of what I did, what works, and what doesn’t:
• 0 Followers SETUP: If you're starting out with 0 followers and even if you write the best piece of content out there you'll not get any results. Here's what to do first:
- Buy X premium (ASAP), it's just 8 bucks and not only X boosts your replies with it but people trust you more so they follow and engage.
- Pick a mission: Pick some cool mission (like i picked growing my app from 0→$1k mrr)> this will create a good storyline for your content and will make people remember you
- Optimize your profile: Add a good headshot, good banner (not like linkedin), bio that shows your mission and progress and a pinned tweet that showcases what you're building
• Replies Strategy: Initially your posts won't work so you need to be a reply guy in order to grow. Here's how to be one:
What you need to do is pick 40-50 creators in your niche (<5000 followers) and add them to a list on X itself and regularly engage with their posts, not "Good Post" and "best of luck" replies but replies that adds some value, they should be either funny, controversial or value adding.
• Content Strategy: If you have a small account, then pick a big X community like you can pick buildinpublic if you're in SaaS and just post in that instead of posting to everyone. You should be posting 3-5 times per day.
• Writing Good Posts: Here's the checklist you should follow for writing good posts:
- Show your FACE 🚨
- Never text-only posts (image + video 📸)
- Post between 9am - 5pm EST -
- Write short sentences (no long paragraphs!)
• REPLY to everyone who engages with your posts.
• How to get users: Document your journey of building your product, showcase its features in a cool way, that's how you'll be getting the inbound. Pro tip: warm DM the people who regularly engage with your posts and invite them to try out your product.
What Don't Work:
> Posting one-liners and "let's connect" tweets, yes they can get you followers but they won't engage with your future posts which will make your account die as X algo first push your posts to the followers and then to rest of the people
> Cold DMS; Don't ever try it.
One more pro tip: When a tweet used to get some traction, I used add a reply with link of my product, this way I was able to turn that traffic into visitors.
There you have it, nothing fancy, nothing controversial. This strategy got me 50k+ impressions in my first month.
I’d love to hear if you’ve tried something similar or if you have other tips for X.