Wanna grow your Twitter account fast? Well, these Black Hat Tactics can turn you into a megastar overnight.

There are cheeky ways to grow your Twitter following from 0 – and fast. Despite their effectiveness, these methods aren’t exactly Kosher. 

You could go down the two more traditional routes to grow your Twitter account fast : 1) be famous/have a loyal following outside of Twitter or 2) consistently post good, useful content and organically attract a large following. 

However, if you are less patient or struggle to write great content that appeals to a wider audience, there are ways to avoid tweeting into the abyss.

In short, a Black Hat tactic is a method by which a user seeks to gain an advantage by illicit means.

Meritocratic in nature, platforms aim to reward good content by driving views to content creators who produce good, useful content.

For example, in the world of SEO, a Black Hat tactic would be to illicitly drive traffic to a website through techniques like keyword stuffing, a private blog network, buying backlinks, and spamming links onto other sites. Search Engines may issue a punishment to downgrade a site’s visibility if they are deemed to be repeat offenders.

For Twitter, a Black Hat tactic to accelerate growth on the platform would be to break Twitter’s Terms of Services to boost the amount of engagement, traffic, impressions, followers, or anything that would artificially increase the amount of exposure your tweets receive.

But the dirty little Twitter secret is that even the biggest and best content creators – barring a few exceptions – participate in Black Hat tactics to further their personal brand or to make a quick buck.

Black Hat Twitter Tactics

There are a few ways you can employ a Black Hat tactic to grow your Twitter Account fast. 

They vary in difficulty, but each tactic can turn an intellectually sterile platitude account into a social media superstar – and make a comfortable lifestyle from selling courses or high ticket coaching offers on the platform.

You don’t have to spend hundreds of hours painstakingly curating hard hitting obscure information into carefully written threads to gain a following.

But you must understand that Black Hat tactics are against terms of service and it can lead to the permanent suspension of your account. 

For those interested in trying a Black Hat tactic, be advised that Twitter can see your DMs. Therefore, any activity against Twitter’s Terms of Services is best done off-platform.

If you’re undeterred, then read on.

1. Buying Engagement

The first and most obvious Black Hat Twitter Tactic is to simply buy engagement off a larger account. 

This usually comes in the form of retweets as it will help boost the most engagement to the smaller account’s content. 

But it has been known for some smaller accounts to pay for other forms of engagement such as likes, comments, or quote tweets. 

This can help a small fish attract new followers or interest to help them start growing into a Twitter shark.

Having said that, some large accounts may be large in size only and with poor engagement.

Some large accounts can balloon up to their size by buying followers or other Black Hat Twitter Tactics that we will discuss below. 

Accounts that have blown up with Black Hat Tactics haven’t truly done so organically. As a result, their following may not be as engaging as a content creator that grew from the bottom up with White Hat tactics. 

2. Share for Share Deals

If you’re a smaller account, this Black Hat Twitter Tactic might not be as useful since you have no leverage to bargain with for larger accounts.

However, many accounts with a reasonable following often do tit-for-tat deals with content creators of a similar size to help propel their reach among the widest possible audience.

If your niche has a certain carryover with another niche (for example self-improvement and fitness, finance and crypto, psychology and mindset coaching, to name a few) share for share deals can be a good way to pull in residual traffic. 

3. Engagement Groups

This technique is used by a lot of smaller content creators trying to gain initial exposure. 

Building out a personal brand from scratch purely through White Hat Tactics can be extremely tough.

Engagement Groups – paid or unpaid – are a wonderful way for accounts to build a community off-platform as well as gain exposure. 

And engagement groups often operate in a similar way as a share for share deal, but across various other accounts within the group, making collusion harder to track.

4. Follow Trains

You may have seen follow trains on Twitter. 

A follow train is usually a tweet that contains the Twitter handles of several content creators another account encourages to follow.

A follow train may specify the niche of a certain content creator next to their handle, with their praises sung by the tweeter, usually in exchange for a retweet, engagement, or a fee.

This Black Hat Tactic is not as common as the above three, but can help solidify a crescent account’s standing within their circles.

Since follow trains are very conspicuous, they also carry a high risk of Twitter officials clamping down on participants, as opposed to Black Hat tacticians who operate off-platform.

5. Buying Followers

Now, this final Black Hat Twitter Tactic won’t specifically drive traffic to an account, but it can fake an account’s authority. 

For example, you see an account with 100k followers, at a cursory glance you automatically think that this content creator *knows* what they’re talking about – of course, they have the following to back up their content, right?

Wrong. 

You may, from time to time, see accounts with respectable followings and pitiful engagement. 

Apart from a long absence and lapsed followers, there’s no reason why massive accounts should have similar engagements to a newcomer, unless they are buying bots. 

An example of this can be mainstream news organizations. Many mainstream news accounts have millions of followers but struggle to break 10 likes on a tweet. 

Twitter’s algorithm can punish repeat content and links, but mainstream news accounts have notoriously high percentages of bots and lapsed accounts making up their huge followings.

A live account with a large following should have a correspondingly engaged audience.

Pros and Cons of Black Hat Twitter Tactics

Pros 

• Grow your account fast
• Network with like minded individuals 
• Find clients fast
• Save time and gain significant exposure

Cons

• Risk of suspension/reprimand by Twitter
• Content can become stale
• Some large accounts have disengaged followers (bots, lapsed, disinterested)
• Can be a waste of time and money

A word of advice: try to grow through your own content and words. Viral content such as memes, screenshots, and headlines are a great way to drive engagement to your brand, but you will attract a low quality following. 

Overall, we recommend that you do not attempt Black Hat Twitter Tactics to grow your account fast, for the sake of the long run – especially if you are trying to cultivate a personal brand.

To the trained eye, you can spot an account that has used Black Hat Tactics from a mile away.

The very best accounts have grown an engaging following from scratch or off the platform through other means. 

Yes, Black Hat Tactics can grow your Twitter account fast, but your account won’t be the same.

We recommend that you grow your Twitter account through White Hat Tactics such as the ones we have detailed in our article here. 

Alternatively, we have a step-by-step guide here that will help you grow your Twitter Account and Personal Brand from scratch.