How To Grow From 0 to 10K Followers In 6 months on Twitter (X)

Summary

The video outlines a 7-step plan for growing a large following and making money on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, within 6-12 months. It emphasizes creating content across three pillars (growth, authority, and personal), optimizing your profile, consistently posting 1-5 times per day, writing 1-3 long-form posts per week, curating a list of top 100 accounts in your niche to engage with, building relationships and a network, and eventually monetizing through products, services and advertisements.

Takeaways

• 😀 X (formerly Twitter) has huge growth potential under Elon Musk's leadership
• 💰 You can make money on X through ad revenue sharing as your following grows
• 🔽 X makes it easy to quickly test content ideas and see which resonate
• 📈 Focus on solving people's problems/pain points to grow your authority and following
• 🙂 Share your transformations, failures and opinions to connect emotionally
• 📸 Optimize your profile with a good photo, clear bio and compelling pinned post
• 🤓 Consume 1-2 hours of content daily to generate interesting ideas to post
• ✍️ Post 1-5 times per day, with 1-3 long-form posts weekly, to grow your account
• 💯 Comment thoughtfully on top accounts' posts to gain followers and credibility
• 👥 Create a network by engaging with similar creators to cross-promote content

Q & A

What are the 5 huge benefits of growing a following on X according to the video?

The 5 benefits are: 1) Elon Musk plans to transform X into an 'everything app' like WeChat which has over 1.2 billion users. 2) X is still growing rapidly and has less competition currently. 3) X pays creators to make content. 4) It's easy to create content quickly on X. 5) The people on X tend to be smarter on average.

What are the 3 categories of content the speaker recommends creating?

The 3 categories are: 1) Growth content based on trending topics and figures, 2) Authority content that displays knowledge and solves people's problems, 3) Personal content that shares your unique story and opinions.

What are the 5 parts of your X profile that should be optimized?

The 5 parts are: 1) Profile photo 2) Bio 3) Banner 4) Username 5) Pinned post

Why should you create a top 100 list and engage with those accounts daily?

Creating a top 100 list of accounts with audiences you want to reach and engaging with them by commenting will likely lead to some of them following you back. It also increases your exposure to their followers.

What is the benefit of creating long-form posts?

Long-form posts build more trust and are better for converting followers and sales because they go more in-depth on a topic.

What is the 'what, why, how' framework?

The 'what, why, how' framework states what your idea is, why someone should care, and how they can apply it in their life. It's an easy way to create content.

How does creating a network help you grow on X?

Creating a network signals to the algorithm that you and other creators know each other. So it will show your content to each other more, accelerating growth.

What is the main way X and other social media platforms make money?

Social media platforms make most of their money from advertisements. The more time users spend on the platforms, the more ads can be shown.

What is the benefit of documenting your journey publicly?

Documenting your journey eliminates impostor syndrome because you don't pretend to already be an expert. It's more relatable.

What mindset helps overcome not starting because you lack expertise?

The mindset is that you're just documenting your learning journey and teaching people a few steps behind you. You don't need to be an expert to start.

Outlines

00:00

😊 Benefits of growing your brand on X (formerly Twitter)

Paragraph 1 discusses 5 key benefits of growing your brand on the X social media platform (formerly Twitter): 1) Elon Musk plans to transform it into an "everything app" like WeChat with over 1 billion users, 2) There is less competition now before an influx of new users join, 3) You can make money from content creation, 4) It's easy to create content quickly and test ideas, 5) The user base tends to be smarter than other platforms.

05:00

😀 Creating authority content that solves people's problems

Paragraph 2 explains the importance of creating authority content that solves people's pain points rather than just motivational fluff, as this builds trust and makes it easier to convert followers into customers. It recommends picking an interest area related to health, wealth or relationships, listing your knowledge gaps, and documenting your learning journey publicly even if you're not an expert.

10:01

📝 7 steps to grow your following to 10k in 6-12 months

Paragraph 3 provides a 7 step plan to grow your X following to 10k in 6-12 months: 1) Identify content pillars using the GAP framework, 2) Optimize your profile, 3) Spend 1-2 hrs/day educating yourself, 4) Post 1-5 times per day, 5) Create 1-3 long-form posts per week, 6) Engage with a curated list of top 100 relevant profiles by commenting 25x per day 7) Develop a network by engaging deeply with 5-10 other creators.

Keywords

💡Personal brand

A personal brand refers to establishing a professional identity and reputation for an individual, similar to how a company has a brand. The video talks about building a personal brand on social media platforms like Twitter to attract followers, establish authority, and eventually monetize through products or services. Examples are given of monetizing a writing-focused personal brand.

💡Followers

Followers refers to the people who subscribe to your profile on social media platforms. The main goal outlined in the video is to build a following of 10,000+ followers. More followers signal credibility and can lead to increased exposure, engagement, and revenue opportunities.

💡Engagement

Engagement refers to the level and types of interaction from your followers and audience on social media. This includes things like comments, likes, clicks, etc. The video emphasizes that higher engagement signals to the algorithms that your content is valuable, leading to more visibility.

💡Content pillars

Content pillars refer to the key categories of content the video recommends focusing on - growth content about trends and personalities, authority content with expertise, and personal content. It suggests strategically combining all three pillars.

💡Monetization

Monetization means generating revenue from your social media presence and content. The main motivation highlighted for building a personal brand and followers is to eventually monetize through offerings like products, services, sponsorships.

💡Algorithm

The algorithms underpinning social platforms that determine what content is shown to whom. The video discusses tactics for signaling value to algorithms by building engagement and relationships between accounts.

💡Consistency

Posting and engaging consistently over time is emphasized rather than looking for quick bursts or viral moments. This builds credibility and authority in a niche.

💡Relationships

Forming connections and relationships with influential accounts and mutually supporting each other to exchange engagement and increase visibility.

💡Documenting

Documenting the journey instead of pretending expertise right away is suggested for building credibility over time.

💡Value

Providing value to the audience above pure entertainment through education, transformation etc. Leads to higher engagement & conversion

Highlights

Elon Musk wants to transform X into the everything app like China's WeChat with over 1.2 billion users

There is less competition to grow on X now and early adopters will get more exposure when new people join

X pays you to create content. As you grow your following, you create passive income

It's easy to create content quickly on X and test ideas by seeing which get the most engagement

People on X are smarter compared to other platforms. You'll make friends to help grow your business

Create growth, authority, and personal content. Growth relates to trends, authority shows competence, personal creates fans

Don't pretend to be an expert. Document your journey publicly and teach others a few steps behind you

Optimize your profile photo, banner, bio, username, and pinned post to attract followers

Dedicate 1-2 hours per day to learning. Constantly educate yourself to create interesting content

Post 1-5 times per day to prioritize yourself in the algorithm and get familiar with people

Write long-form posts 1-3 times per week to build more trust and authority than one-off posts

Make a list of 100 top accounts in your niche and comment on their posts to attract followers

Form relationships and interact with other creators so the algorithm surfaces your content more

Create a group of creators to exchange engagement and cross-promote content

Be consistent over 6-12 months and you'll likely reach 10,000+ followers on X

Transcripts

over 250,000 followers consistent

$100,000 months dozens of

multi-millionaire friends these are some

of the benefits I've gotten just from

the social media platform X formerly

known as Twitter and with Elon Musk

taking over Twitter it's now the newest

and best opportunity to make money on

social media and to be honest only a few

smart people are taking advantage right

now before The Secret Gets Out so in

this video I'm going to show you exactly

how you can grow a follow of 10,000

followers on Twitter or X in the next 6

to 12 months and start making money from

your personal brand as quickly as

possible but first I mean why even grow

on X well there are five huge benefits

that not many people know about so first

off Elon Musk says he wants to transform

X from a social media app into the

everything app like China's we chat that

has over 1.2 billion users and if you

don't think one of the smartest and

richest guys guys on the planet who

launches Rockets to Mars creates brain

microchips and digs underground car

tunnels can't build the biggest social

media platform in the world while my

friend you are smoking crack so for

contexts Instagram and YouTube have well

over 2 billion monthly active users

right now X has over 541 million monthly

active users and in May of 2022 X had

229 monthly active users so that's over

a 100% increase in one year alone and I

predict the growth of X in the next 4

years is going to hit well over 2

billion people which means right now

there is less competition to grow and

those who do build their brand will get

a ton more exposure when the influx of

new people join the social media

platform and not only that but X is one

of the few social media platforms right

now that pays you to create content so

for example within 3 days of signing up

for X add Revenue share and posting

content I made

$329 so as you grow your social media

following you're also creating an asset

that gives you passive income now reason

three to grow a following on X is

because it's super easy to create

content you can create a post within 30

seconds and have it potentially go viral

so the effort to reward ratio on X is

unmatched which leads to the next

benefit since you can create a ton of

content quickly you can test which ideas

resonate with your Audience by seeing

which ones get the most likes and

Impressions repost all of that then you

can take the validated pieces of content

that get the most engagement and

repurpose it into Instagram posts into

LinkedIn posts short form video even

newsletters and that's how I've grown my

Instagram to over 200,000 followers and

Linkedin to 35,000 followers simply by

repurposing my posts from X now the

final reason is the people on X are

simply smarter compared to other

platforms I don't know if it's because

it's a heavily text based platform that

attracts smart people but the IQ level

on there is much higher than something

like Tik Tok hell no man not only are

you going to learn more because of the

quality of information but you're going

to make friends with smart people who

can help grow your business help make

you more money and help you grow your

social media so that's all fine and

dandy you know all those benefits but

how do you actually grow a following on

X and how can you grow to 10,000

followers in the next 6 to 12 months

after growing my own following from zero

to to 250,000 followers and ghost

writing for some of the biggest personal

brands on the platform I've created an

easy seven-step plan for you to follow

and this is what I charge my clients

thousands of dollars a month for but

you're going to get it for free in the

next 7 minutes so step one is you need

to figure out your content pillars and

there's three categories you want your

content to touch on and I call this the

Gap framework the G stands for growth

content the a stands for Authority

content and the P stands stands for

personal content so growth content is

anything that relates to trending topics

and well-known figures you can tie back

to your brand so if I was a writer and

creating writing content on social media

then I would take advantage of the chat

GPT Trend and tie that back to my

content or I would think of okay who are

the big authorities and well-known

figures in the writing world and I would

make content breaking down their lessons

their books something like stepen King's

top lessons on writing and this is the

type of content that's going to get a

lot of clicks because it's on top of

everybody's mind you know they're

familiar with those topics and they're

going to click on it which is going to

get you more exposure now the second

category is Authority content and this

is the number one mistake people make

when they are trying to grow on social

media it's creating only creating fluffy

content that sounds like it came from a

fortune cookie because humans act in

their self-interest we are more prone to

follow accounts that solve our pain

points or move us closer to a desired

outcome and even if you do manage to

grow some account based off of fluffy

motivational content you're going to

struggle to make money from products or

Services which is where you're actually

going to make money with social media so

I want you to grab a pen and a piece of

paper and list out the topics you are

interested in and it could be Fitness

writing business you don't have to be

good at them just list out your interest

now from your interest pick one that if

you were to learn and provide a service

or product to other people it had the

potential to either make other people

money improve the other person's health

or improve their dating and relationship

life and there will always be a market

for health wealth and relationships so

it'll make it easier for you to grow on

social media and easier to make money on

social media and remember you don't need

to be an expert you just need to post

content and this is the biggest problem

holding most people back from even

starting and the best mindset you can

have going into it is that you're just

documenting your Journey you're building

in public and teaching people a few

steps behind you when you adopt this

Frame you're not pretending to be

someone you're not and you'll eliminate

a ton of impostor syndrome now finally

for your third content bucket personal

content I mean think about it if people

only wanted information they would just

Google it so personal content is how you

separate yourself from everyone else on

social media because that's the one

thing that can't be copied is who you

are so you want to share your story you

want to share your failures you want to

share your Transformations and your

uncensored opinions and that will spark

all that unique content that people

can't replicate because it's process

through your own experience so make sure

to create personal content because this

is what's going to create Die Hard fans

because when people relate to you they

connect to you on emotional level and

emotion will always influence people

more than logic now step two is create

your profile your profile is going to

drastically affect the amount of

followers and sales you get so you want

to optimize it and your profile can be

broken up into five parts profile photo

Banner bio username and pinned post for

your profile photo people are attracted

to faces and you'll be more identifiable

on the timeline when it's a quality head

shot of you so use an iPhone don't use

an Android or use a DSLR camera to take

a photo of you and if you don't have one

ask a friend or hire a professional

photographer it's well worth the

investment because you are literally

creating the face of your brand and to

give you some examples here are some

solid profile photos on the screen now

next for your bio focus on the benefit

for the reader you want to think why

should they care so the first line of

your bio should give people an idea of

what your account is about you can keep

it simple so something like post on X Y

and Z the second part of your bio should

be something that backs up your

Authority and shows that you're

competent in what you talking about so

for example one bio could be posts on

writing business and content creation

and then the second line would be I've

helped 117 people monetize their

personal brand or if you are new and you

don't have as much experience you can

talk about how you are documenting your

journey on your way to some big goal so

if I was just starting out I could say

post on writing business and content

creation sharing my insights on my way

to building a 10K a month personal brand

now for your banner it can be anything

just think of it as the wallpaper for

your brand and all it has to do is match

the vibe you're going for so for your

username you want it to be easy to spell

and uncomplicated so it's easy to

remember and look you up and avoid

putting numbers or underscores those

look absolutely atrocious please just

slap yourself if you do that now finally

for your pinned post if you want to

optimize for followers make a long form

story post that talks about a specific

transformation you went through so it

could be something how you lost 107 lb

and went from fat to fit or how you went

from broke to not broke or if you want

to optimize for sales make a long form

post showing a case study of one of your

clients like how you got them great

results or a case study of yourself and

how you've done it for yourself and

basically this is going to show you are

competent in what you are selling and

it's going to encourage people to buy

from you now step three is to dedicate

one to 2 hours a day to learning so

creating content is like cooking a ious

meal if you want to make something truly

unique and flavorful you need a variety

of ingredients so to create interesting

content you need to constantly educate

yourself so block out an hour or two

every day to read listen to podcasts

consume courses whatever then store your

notes on something like notion or Google

Docs and refer back to it whenever you

need to create content now step four is

post regularly now that you know what

you want to talk about on social social

media and got your profile set up you

need to post content and if you want to

grow on X you need to post consistently

1 to 5 times a day and this is going to

prioritize you in the algorithm and get

people familiar with you at first nobody

is going to see your content so don't be

discouraged if you're not growing you

want to think about your social media

post at the start as your digital resume

when someone goes to your profile and

scans your content it's going to convert

them and the easiest way to churn out a

ton of content is to follow another

framework I created called the what why

how framework so State what your idea is

why someone should care and how they can

apply it in their own life and if you

listen to all the tips I've given so far

in the video it follows this framework

now step five is to create 1 to three

long posts a week not 1 2 three it's one

to three now posting 1 to five regular

posts a day will grow your X account but

to supercharge your growth you want to

create long form Authority and story

posts and these types of posts convert

the best for followers and sales because

you're going more in depth on a topic

which builds trust way more trust than a

single oneoff post and all long form

posts are is a collection of steps on

how to reach a desired outcome or solve

a paino so if I was a fitness account I

would think okay what are the biggest

pain points of my audience for example I

can make a long form post on how to lose

5 lbs in the next 30 days then I follow

it up with actionable steps and for each

step you can use the what why how

framework to simplify the whole process

and make it easy to write now step six

is to create your top 100 so from 0 to

5,000 followers this is going to be the

best way to grow your account so you're

going to be like Santa Claus and you're

going to make a list of 100 people and

these 100 people are going to be those

who have the audience you want to have

now what you're going to want to do is

click the list button on the left side

of the screen when you log on to the X

app then create a new private list and

add all those people to it and this will

organize it in one centralized Hub where

it will make it easy to log on and

engage with all those accounts and now

that you have your list you're going to

comment 25 times a day or more on those

people's posts and this will have two

huge benefits so one over time many of

those accounts you follow are going to

follow you and this will get you a ton

more follower conversions because when

bigger accounts follow you it's a source

of credibility because when someone goes

to your account and they see oh 10 or 50

or however many people people I follow

follow this person I'm going to follow

them too because they must be credible

and the second big benefit is increased

exposure so when you leave comments on

bigger accounts their followers will see

it and some of them will click on your

profile and if you have a solid profile

and good content which you will these

people will follow you too but it is

crucial you do not leave stupid comments

like dropping a fire Emoji like it's

some thirst trap on IG or simply saying

I agree expand on what the original post

says add your own opinions add your own

exper experience to what the person is

saying and this will stand out because

you're showing you are a human you

actually have good thoughts and it's

going to attract quality followers now

the final step is Step seven and that's

going to be creating a network so we

need to remember why social media

platforms exist money but social media

is free so how do they make their money

ads which means the longer someone is on

social media the more ads that social

media platform can show them and the

more money they will make so if the

algorithm sees people are engaging with

your stuff it's telling it you're good

at keeping people on the platform and

it's going to push your content to more

people so it's crucial you make friends

on the platform comment on people's

accounts you Vibe with and once you're

friendly in the comments reach out and

form relationships in the DMS and the

more you interact with other people the

more you're going to signal to the

algorithm hey these people know each

other let's push the content to them

more and not only is this going to show

your stuff more in the social media feed

but you're going to create valuable

friends you can grow with and

potentially do business with or whatever

so if you really want to accelerate your

growth you can create a group of 5 to 10

other creators and exchange engagement

so as each of you grow and grow larger

audiences you'll push each other's

content to larger audiences and this is

going to compound and snowball over time

so make it a habit to reach out to one

to three people a day on the platform

now if you're consistent with these

seven tips over the next 6 to 12 months

I guarantee you're going to have at

least 10,000 follow followers and set up

very nicely for when X becomes the next

big social media platform so if you want

to build a personal brand and make money

with social media I do offer a program

that walks you through everything I

learned that scaled my business to

$250,000 months and a $500,000 plus

following within 3 years if you're

interested in that you can click the

link in the description but with that

being said I hope you all have a

fantastic day and I will see you on the

next one