Why I stopped being Amir Khan.

My greed for twitter followers drove me to create a twitter account called AmirKhanTweets (after the megastar Amir Khan who recently broke all records with his film ‘3 idiots!’). Super.

I followed a krao so that it looked like Amir was following his wife Kiran. Great. I followed a few celebrities so that it looked like Amir was consorting with his equals. Excellent.

I sent a few oblique messages like ‘I am hoping the Chetan Bhagat controversy gets over amicably’ and others. Wunnerful. I got a few followers after a few days. Super again.

Then I got a DM (Direct Message for twitterignoramuses) ‘I am a great fan of yours sir’. Uh oh… Then I got another DM ‘Sir it is an honour to be sending you a message’. And I immediately deleted the account.

Why? Because I do not like to manipulate, influence or con people. Period. And these people were believing that they were talking to the real Amir… ughhh that was mega cheating. So I stopped being Amir Khan. (please don’t ask me why I started with this entire thing in the first place, I don’t know)

The Tweet Tweeter of Hamelin!

All the rats followed the Pied Piper of Hamelin as he played his pipe, but how does one get thousands of followers in Twitter. By behaving like the Tweet Tweeter of Hamelin of course.

You have to play a tune that attracts followers in droves.

That tune that you play, is the overall nature of your tweets, whether about technology or about cars or whatever. Find your space and your tune and play (tweet) on.

Of course if you are a celebrity, the rules are different, then you just have to tweet any and everything and you will have millions following you.

Sending tweets that are useful, informative and simple is a thumb rule that will get you followers. You should also engage with your followers as much as possible, that’s what buzzes everything up.

Here’s to you, the Tweet Tweeter of Twitter!