How To Get 1000 Followers On ALL Platforms
Twitter, YouTube, Substack, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads & TikTok
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In this newsletter, I’m going to show you how to go from 0 to 1,000+ followers on any major social platform in less than 1 hour per day.
This system worked for me and dozens of clients, but before it can work for you, there’s one key thing you need to understand first.
Before we dive in, the X Business System will soon not be available anymore (but customers keep lifetime access and updates). It’s the system that got me from 0 to 6-figures, +55K X followers and +9K email subs. Click here to get it before it’s gone.
Follower Funnel
This is the Follower Funnel.
It explains how growth works on almost any social platform.
Growth happens in 3 steps:
They see your content, comments or DMs
If they like it, they’ll click on your profile
If your profile looks good, they’ll click on the ‘follow button’
That’s it.
Content, comments, and DMs give you profile clicks.
Your profile converts those clicks into followers.
So to grow, you need to optimize your profile, content, and comments.
Everything else is noise.
On video platforms, great content is enough.
But on writing platforms, you need an engagement system.
I’ll cover that later, but first let’s optimize your profile so that you will actually convert the traffic you get into followers.
Profile Optimization
There are a lot of tiny things you can optimize, but let’s stick to the 2 most important things in this newsletter: your profile picture and your bio.
Your profile picture needs to look professional.
The fastest way is to emulate a picture that you like.
I liked the picture of Andrew Huberman, so I created something similar but still different.
Don’t blindly copy it, but take inspiration from the pictures you like.
Your bio needs to clearly explain how you help people.
I recommend using this simple template:
“I help [person] achieve [result] with [topics]. [social proof + CTA]”
It’s not perfect, but it’s clear and people immediately know what you do.
Example:
Don’t overthink it.
You’ll probably change it dozens of times over the years, so just get your first iteration out there.
Think of it as your Minimum Viable Profile.
You can use this on all platforms and when you do, you will convert at least 10% of traffic into followers. But if your content isn’t good then you won’t keep them so let’s talk about what you should post now.
Content
Content starts with writing good tweets.
After that, we’ll repurpose them to every other platform.
There are only two types of content you need:
Growth content to grow your audience.
Credibility content to monetize your audience.
Growth content takes popular topics and packages them in proven formats.
For example: contrast posts or triad posts.
Post at least 2 growth posts per day if you want to grow fast.
Credibility content is about educating people and showing proof to build trust.
For example: deep dive threads or educational lists.
Post at least 1 credibility post per day, ideally with a CTA below it to get inbound leads.
I post 8 times per day, but 3 posts per day is enough to grow:
The writing formatting of your content is also important.
I call this Aesthetic Writing, and it’s the writing equivalent of video editing.
I explain it in detail in the Writing Simplified eBook that you can get as a gift if you subscribe to my newsletter.
If you want my entire content and growth system, check out the X Growth System or DM me ‘ACS’ on Twitter (or reply to to this email) if you want my 1-1 help.
Engagement System
Now you know what to post.
But early on, writing platforms give you very few impressions.
So you need to leave comments to put your content in front of more people.
Create a list of 100 creators in your niche.
About 20% big creators and 80% smaller ones.
Leave 25+ comments twice a day.
More works better, but consistency and quality matter more than volume.
Do something you can stick with for months.
Don’t comment too fast and focus on one platform at a time to avoid burnout.
I recommend starting on Twitter because it lets you use X Pro to add your comment list.
For other platforms, you have to make a spreadsheet with account names.
That’s the engagement system.
Now that you understand how to optimize your profile, content, and engagement strategy, let’s talk about how you can turn your tweets into content for all other platforms.
Cross-Platform Growth
Now let’s talk about repurposing.
The idea is simple:
Take a good tweet and turn it into content for every other platform.
Let’s start with the easiest ones.
Substack & Threads
For Substack and Threads, you can just copy paste your tweets.
I use Hypefury (aff. link) to automatically schedule my tweets to Threads.
You can do this with one click:
For Substack, I paste my tweets into WriteStack (aff. link) to schedule them.
That’s all you need to do.
That brings us to the next one.
LinkedIn, Instagram & TikTok
For LinkedIn and Instagram, you can:
Take your tweet
Turn it into an image
Create a slightly longer version
You can do this yourself or you can paste the tweet into ChatGPT, ask for a longer version, and edit it to improve it.
It won’t be perfect, so make sure that you still edit and improve it yourself.
The goal is to get a rough draft that we can edit.
You can also write the longer version yourself entirely (the reason we ask AI to do it is to save mental energy, not to create the perfect post).
Then, you can turn the original tweet into an image using a tool like Tweetpik.
You just paste the link of the tweet in there and you get an image of the tweet.
We’re doing this because posts with images usually do better on LinkedIn and we need an image for Instagram.
You can also use this for TikTok or you can even turn the tweet image into a short video.
I don’t have TikTok, but other people post my content there (and it works):
All of this takes less than 30 minutes per week.
YouTube
YouTube takes more time, but you can still reuse your ideas.
I repost my LinkedIn content as YouTube community posts.
You can literally just copy and paste your post text and image here.
For videos, the simplest option is turning list tweets or threads into list videos.
For example, I turned this list tweet into this list video:
I just created a few slides in Canva:
1 intro slide
1 slide per point
1 outro slide + CTA
Then I recorded it with Tella (aff link) and edited it.
This only took a few hours.
This won’t create viral entertainment videos, but for entrepreneurs and educational creators, it works very well.
It’s a simple system you can use to get started (you can improve production later if you want to).
So this is how you can get to 1000 followers on every platform in 1 hour per day.
It might take a while without comments on most platforms.
With comments, and other growth strategies, you can get there quickly.
If you want to get there faster, check out the X Growth System (price increases soon) and the other resources below.
Talk soon,
Stijn
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