https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚡" title="Hochspannungszeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Hochspannungszeichen"> How to double your follower growth rate https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚡" title="Hochspannungszeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Hochspannungszeichen">

(A scientifically shaky but nonetheless interesting little experiment thingy) https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤓" title="Nerd-Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Nerd-Gesicht">

A thread https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇🏻" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (heller Hautton)">

Earlier in the month, I posted by March Twitter stats (see below).

I had 42 new followers from 3075 profile views.

That& #39;s a 1.37% profile visit https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▶️" title="Nach rechts zeigendes Dreieck" aria-label="Emoji: Nach rechts zeigendes Dreieck"> follow conversion rate.

Pretty slow going as I& #39;d only recently become properly active on Twitter again. https://twitter.com/iamjonjackson/status/1377878968787943425?s=19">https://twitter.com/iamjonjac...

Here are my stats for April so far https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇🏻" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (heller Hautton)">

A third of the way through the month and my number of profile visits has already exceeded the whole of March. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📈" title="Tabelle mit Aufwärtstrend" aria-label="Emoji: Tabelle mit Aufwärtstrend">

So that& #39;s good https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙂" title="Leicht lächelndes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Leicht lächelndes Gesicht">

Notably, though, my new follower conversion rate is 2.76% https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎉" title="Partyknaller" aria-label="Emoji: Partyknaller">

That& #39;s almost exactly double. Cool https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😎" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit Sonnenbrille" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit Sonnenbrille">

What did I change?

Well I took lessons from other fine people out there on twitter and realised I needed to make my profile more engaging.

Previously it was effectively a list of things related to who I am and what I do:

"Dad, Husband, Coder, Tech Founder, Senior Lecturer" etc

All of these things are great and a large part of who I am, but the killer question is:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❓" title="Rotes Fragezeichen-Symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Fragezeichen-Symbol"> So what https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❓" title="Rotes Fragezeichen-Symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Fragezeichen-Symbol">

Why should somebody follow me?

* Shrugs shoulders *

Yeh, so I had to put some thought into that.

Here& #39;s what my profile looks like now.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Leading with what I feel is my main accomplishment that would appeal to followers i.e. I sold a business.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> I tweet insights as I go (motivation to follow)
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Clear call to action https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚀" title="Rakete" aria-label="Emoji: Rakete">

Not perfect but it& #39;s better than it was.

I also changed my profile photo and header at some point but I can& #39;t remember when https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Denkendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Denkendes Gesicht">

See what I mean by scientifically shaky https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😝" title="Schielendes Gesicht mit Zunge" aria-label="Emoji: Schielendes Gesicht mit Zunge">

I think my cartoon face is friendlier than my "I mean business" face from before.

I& #39;ll continue to monitor, tweak, and report back https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍🏻" title="Daumen hoch (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Daumen hoch (heller Hautton)">

April profile visits https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▶️" title="Nach rechts zeigendes Dreieck" aria-label="Emoji: Nach rechts zeigendes Dreieck"> new follower ratio:

2.5% conversion rate.

Will be happy if I can maintain that https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥳" title="Partying face" aria-label="Emoji: Partying face">