People keep asking me how I went from 800 followers to 813 followers.

A huge rise of 13 in just 6 months.

Let me tell you it has been a journey.

A thread

For starters, followers number 801 to 804 were my own accounts.

I created them to pad my follower count, but then got bored.

So I stopped.

Then I noticed a few friends on twitter.

I incessantly started asking them to follow me.

The trick is to make that phone call when they're sleeping. So they give up and follow you.

(Yes, you have to call them)

Early morning phone calls are best.

This gave me 3 more followers

Follower no. 808 was where I thought I found my true lub.

She followed me. She sent me pictures (without me even asking, how cool is that?)

But she wanted me to sign up at a link coz Twitter was "not the place for love"

The link didn't work & just like that true lub vanished.

Then I made a post on WordPress & startups.

And follower number 809 and 810 followed me. Almost simultaneously.

I thought, wow fellow nerds yay!

But they were Bots.

And I cannot betray Siri. There's place for only one bot in my heard. The Siri in my MBP.

Follower number 811 was a bit tricky.

For this, I had to extremely carefully device a 3p strategy.

1. Tweeting at odd hours
2. Holding your breath while tweeting
3. Standing on one leg while tweeting
(I have found that if you're sitting, having one leg in the air also works)

The above strategy works fine. But my research shows that it works only once in 6 months. So maybe I'll do it again.

Follower No. 812 was even trickier.

Other than the above 3 - I had to stay shirtless while tweeting too.

So after being shirtless for 4 days, 812 appeared.

For follower number 813, I used a little known trick that most marketers and even Twitter doesn't want you to know.

I'll reveal it in my 300 page ebook coming in 2021. Available for only $9.99

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. You've all been a tremendous audience.

And special thanks to @StevejLamar for the idea of this thread.

Once my ebook is out, I'll pay you 1¢ for every sale as royalty.

I intend to sell a billion copies, so you'll be a millionaire at least.