Daniel Fazio describes his personal Twitter growth: it took ~1 year to reach 20,000 followers and another year to gain 90,000 more. Early-stage tactics emphasized active replying and forming personal connections; later growth came from persistently posting quality content and rephrasing prior ideas. He cites having ~24,000 tweets as evidence of volume-driven growth.
It took me about a year to get 20,000 Twitter followers, and then another year to get an additional 90,000 Twitter followers. Right? And it worked like this. In the beginning, you have to reply to people and just actually make friends and get it in and have people actually like you and, like, make friends. Right? It's literally a social network. And then it's just posting really good content. And what happens over time is you say everything you know, and then you just go back and reword all of the stuff you already said. So people are like, well, how'd you grow so big on Twitter? It's like, my guy, I have 24,000 tweets. That's how.
