Go beyond the basics of twitter by maintaining your twitter followers. This is especially important if you’re trying to increase your followers and you’re stuck around the 2,000 mark. (Twitter only allows you to follow 2,000 people until you have a similar amount of followers.)
This tool also allows you to export your follows, fans and friends and provides follower location data.
Log into FriendorFollow.com and connect with your twitter account so you can easily follow/unfollow with one click. Take advantage of the sorting options, especially location and last tweet date.
Why is this important?
Most CVBs (Convention & Visitors Bureaus) market to specific locations, targeting non-locals to visit the area. You can use this export to see where your twitter following is from by sorting the location column in the spreadsheet. But remember that twitter users can enter anything as their location, including GPS coordinates, so this will only be as accurate as the information they provide.
As important as it is to target non-locals, you most consider the power of the “ambassadors” for your city, whether local or non-local. These are people who will retweet your message and promote your city in their normal tweets.
Never underestimate the power of your local followers!
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