In TwitterCounter we process millions of Twitter accounts every day, so we know which ways to increase your online popularity, make friends and increase your number of followers on Twitter. Here are 5 tips that will help you start gaining followers right now.

1: Have a great bio and avatar

Pick an avatar one that looks appealing to followers. What works best is a photo where you smile and your face is clear and recognizable. Or use a logo, bright colored drawing or cartoon. Make it stand out from the rest.

Also, don’t forget to fill in your Bio. The description you enter there is extremely important for people to get a first impression of who you are and what you do.

2: Content is king!

Make your tweets funny, entertaining and informative to make a good first impression. Give advice and help people. Link to interesting content, write about trending topics or make yourself some photos and post that, people will love it. Create unique content!

Good Tweet vs bad Tweet. Can you spot the difference?

3: Interact with your followers

People love following people who they have real interaction with. When you gain a follower welcome him or her (openly or via direct message) and make sure you include some information to make it interesting for your other followers. Make sure you are personal. Example: “Hey @Boris, thanks for following me. Didn’t know you were the founder of TwitterCounter. Great service!”

4: Use retweet and #hashtags

Learn how to use hashtags to tag your tweets and appear in the public searches. Retweet interesting stuff from your friends and encourage your followers to do the same with you. That way you will be seen by more people, so your chances to be followed will increase.

5: Become featured user

If you really want to boost up your follower count you should consider reaching a broader audience. Being featured in TwitterCounter means that you will be displayed in a website visited monthly by more than 600.000 Twitter fanatics. Are you curious? Learn more about how to become a featured user.

Yesterday, we rolled out this new feature to make Twittercounter even more accessible for all people and devices. So, for all you guys on the move, you can check now your Twittercounter stats from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, and you will see a image-only version of the graph, no Flash required. Check it out now!

Twittercounter on my iPad, yay!