Twitter?

[Gillnox]

Hey everyone! I was just wondering about Twitter! I hear lots of people talking about how they use it really effectively to find new people to watch their videos and building relationships with people over Twitter! My question is how do you do that because I feel like when I Tweet something nobody is seeing it! If you have had moderate success with Twitter can you walk me through your steps? Like: What you tweet?, Who you tweet to?, Which hashtags you use?, How you find new people?

 

[CaptainSauce]

I wouldn't say it's a good promotion tool but it's a good networking tool. When you genuinely interact with people in your field, their followers see you and some might even check out your content. First you have to regularly tweet out interesting things, then people will follow you because of it. No one follows an empty account or one that just tweets out their videos. You shouldn't get on twitter with the purpose of promotion and self gain, it isn't a platform for that.

Some people will mass favorite or follow people in the hopes of getting followed back or bringing peoples attention to your content, but that really just destroys any respect you may gain in your genre. It isnt worth the very people you might attract.

 

[ControlledPairs]

Like the CaptainSauce said. Twitter is a network too. That being said, networking is a great way to promote you channel. It's an important part of developing and audience into a community that interacts with you, each other and your content. I love twitter. I get to talk to my subscribers and other creators. Just today, actually, I tweeted to the biggest youtuber of a certain game I love to play (see image). He responded and thousands of people saw our interaction and as a result looked at my profile. Perhaps analytics will later reveal that some of those people came to my youtube channel.

Additionally, when you share your content on twitter, you are increasing the SEO value of your videos. Without being overly complicated, suffice it to say that google promotes videos with more external links to them more than stagnate, not shared content.

Finally, don't just make a twitter account and spam your content. Instead, find other people who are talking about the same topics as you and interact with them. If you're a gaming channel, search the #(insertyourgamehere) and see who's talking about it. Talk to those people about the game, develop a legitimate relationship, and later on they will be fans of your content rather than one time viewers.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

 

[Gillnox]

Like the CaptainSauce said. Twitter is a network too. That being said, networking is a great way to promote you channel. It's an important part of developing and audience into a community that interacts with you, each other and your content. I love twitter. I get to talk to my subscribers and other creators. Just today, actually, I tweeted to the biggest youtuber of a certain game I love to play (see image). He responded and thousands of people saw our interaction and as a result looked at my profile. Perhaps analytics will later reveal that some of those people came to my youtube channel.

Additionally, when you share your content on twitter, you are increasing the SEO value of your videos. Without being overly complicated, suffice it to say that google promotes videos with more external links to them more than stagnate, not shared content.

Finally, don't just make a twitter account and spam your content. Instead, find other people who are talking about the same topics as you and interact with them. If you're a gaming channel, search the #(insertyourgamehere) and see who's talking about it. Talk to those people about the game, develop a legitimate relationship, and later on they will be fans of your content rather than one time viewers.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

Thanks This does clear up a few things for me!

 

[Zerodecoole]

It depends on how interesting the Twitter account is.

I sometimes take a look at Twitter accounts from a few smaller YouTubers and the only thing they usually tweet about is when they upload a new video.
When I look at the Twitter account of bigger YouTubers I notice that they actually share what they do outside of YouTube, post entertaining and funny tweets and cool photos.

Of course you don't have to be very public about your life if you don't want to but it's useful to post more than just video and channel updates on Twitter, if you post fun tweets then you might gain more followers who could become your new audience.

 

[TheSuperFunArt]

I feel a fallout on Twitter too. No one interacts with me. Integration comes very rare to me. I guess it's all about posting more regularly.
But not because they are not liking your tweet or retesting or replying mean they are not reading it.
When I post my videos I expect no views but I actually get like 2-5 views from Twitter. Which is not much but it tells me someone out there is seeing my tweets and that feels good.