Simple Tips for Success: Follow your Fans on Twitter

This week’s Simple Tips for Success is aimed to help you maximize Twitter using TweetFeed.

If you’re doing something right and gaining some traction, chances are that your band, product, name or service is going to get mentioned on the Twittersphere.

So what should you do?

Find and follow those users that are talking about you!

Those are the people you want to connect with.  Those are “the few” that Andrew suggested you focus on in last week’s Simple Tips for Success.  Those are the people that care about you enough to share you with their friends, and you should do your best to add them to your network.

What’s the simplest way to do that?  Follow them on Twitter.

Following people is as easy as a clicking the mouse, but the real challenge is finding out if and when people are talking about you.  What is the best way to find if people are talking about you? Use TweetFeed.

TweetFeed is a simple, easy to use service that allows you to create ‘feeds’ for terms mentioned on Twitter.  Basically it is Google for Twitter.  Want to see it in action?

Check out the Artists House tweetfeed.

So the process works like this.  Sign up for an account with Tweetfeed (takes less than five seconds), set up a feed you’d like — say ‘your band’s name’ or ‘your name’ or anything else you’re interested in, and you’re good to go.  Then you can check on it periodically — once a day — once a week — and click through to twitter to follow the people that mentioned you.

This is a great way to show your fans that you truly care about them, and want to connect.  After you follow them, you could send them a direct message, get them to follow you, and create mutually beneficial two-way communication.

Anecdotally, this could also be a great way to get people talking about you.  I have specifically seen occurrences where friends tweeted out about Hulu, got followed by Hulu a few hours later, then re-tweeted their excitement about what happened.

I even blogged about McDonalds when it happened to me.

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What do yall think?  Any other ways to do this?  Comments?
Do you know of any bands that are doing this?