When creating a Twitter profile one of the first tasks is to grow a decent audience. Happily there is no shortage of advice on tips and tricks to do this.

In this blog post I’ve compiled 111 ways to do just that, as suggested from across the web.

But before you dive headlong in, don’t forget you’ll need an easy way to track your results as you seek to grow your Twitter followers each week. A great way to do this is to join the Rise Twitter Followers Club. Join the Club and receive free weekly emails letting you know your % growth in followers each week, and compare your performance to other members.

1. Create Valuable Content
2. Comment on relevant news/tweets
3. Retweet relevant content
4. Engage with major events
5. Ask for retweets
6. Promote Responsibly
7. Countdowns
8. Twitter-Exclusive content, contests and promotions
9. Two-sided Conversations
10. Add a unique image
11. Create a unique header image
12. Write an engaging bio
13. Customize your colour scheme
14. Add a follow button to your blog
15. Add a Twitter share button to your blog posts
16. Setup Twitter cards
17. Link to your Twitter account in your author bio
18. Link out to influencers in your blog posts and let them know about it
19. Embed tweets in your blog posts
20. Avoid sending multiple tweets in a short space of time
21. Stop sending automated DM’s
22. Tweet more (within reason)
23. Follow people who value what you have to say
24. Vary the type of content you share
25. Leverage and optimize hashtags
26. Pin your best stuff to your profile
27. Share the content your audience is interested in
28. Share other people’s content and tag them
29. Take part in Twitter chats
30. Schedule your tweets to be published when your followers are online
31. Ask Your Users to Follow You
32. Add Twitter Profiles To Email Signatures
33. Include Twitter Profiles in Company Material
34. Promote Product or Company Related Hashtags
35. Use Twitter For Support
36. Include Twitter Follow Buttons on Thank-You Pages
37. Allow Users to Share Pre-Filled Tweets
38. Use Favorites as Testimonials
39. Add Your Twitter Profile To Your Facebook Page
40. Know What Time Zone To Best Engage
41. Reach Out To Influencers
42. Engage With Customers
43. Use Images, Properly
44. Join In Conversations With Other Brands
45. Use Hashtags At Conferences
46. Include Your Twitter Profile On Presentations
47. Keep It Positive
48. Follow Your Own Followers
49. Create Lists & Follow The Users
50. Tweet To 3 New People Every Day
51. Add Twitter Profiles To Guest Blogs
52. Get A Celebrity To Retweet You
53. Use Trending Hashtags Wisely
54. Cross Promote Hashtags
55. Ask Your Followers Questions
56. Use Vine or YouTube Videos
57. Give Twitter Followers A Coupon Code
58. Leverage Partnerships
59. Use Promoted Tweets
60. Have Multiple Staff Accounts
61. Tweet Stats & Interesting Content
62. Reward Your Followers
63. Use Favourites As A Marketing Platform
64. Promote Your Twitter Account Through Other Channels
65. Utilize your LinkedIn and email connections
66. Use a timesaving tool to schedule your tweets
67. Tweet inspirational quotes.
68. Follow users who follow your followers
69. Follow the accounts recommended by Twitter
70. Respond to people who are interested in similar content
71. Tap into your existing customer base
72. Run a followers advertising campaign on Twitter
73. Collect feedback to build a better business
74. Tap into real time programming 
75. Feature seasonal, cultural and industry events
76. Launch a product on Twitter
77. Track your results.
78. Create value for your followers by solving their problems
79. Use pauses to leave space for engagement
80. Tweet from the heart
81. Get to know Twitter lingo
82. Keep your Bio current
83. Embed your best Tweets
84. Use your Twitter account to sign in to other forum sites
85. Sign up for Twitter directories (and Rise boards)
86. Get a celebrity or industry leader to follow you
87. Send a Direct Message to your new followers
88. Search for Tweets with business related keywords and hashtags 
89. Tweet about breaking news
90. Repeat your most popular tweets 
91. Keep it short 
92. Don’t auto-tweet
93. Don’t rapid tweet 
94. Be a great headline writer
95. Tweet about other blog posts
96. Use the .@mention –
97. Check your Twitter throughout the day
98. Use promoted tweets
99. Respond to @mentions
100. Partner with other businesses 
101. Use promoted trends and accounts
102. Target your ads
103. Host a live tweet event i.e product launch
104. Track your links 
105. Tweet on weekends too
106. Improve your tweets
107. Regularly unfollow people who haven’t followed you back
108. Use keywords to find followers
109. Make an effort to Keep Your Followers on Twitter
110. Consider creating a different Twitter account.
111. Turn a Twitter list into a Power 100 leaderboard

While I’m sure most of you do many of these already, I hope you find at least some new tips in here to help you grow your Twitter follower numbers.

This week we have also been looking at the Twitter followers of the world’s tourist boards. Check out our findings on this week’s Rise Report – Top 1000 Travel Destinations on Twitter. Which places would you think have the greatest following on Twitter? The answers may surprise you…