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10 practical tips to get your tweets retweeted!
1. Hours of the day: Peak tweet hours – business hours (between
9am-5pm; I guess that’s one of the very few advantages of having a
J.O.B. – you get paid for tweeting). Peak retweet hours – 3pm to
midnight.
Moral: if you want to be read, tweet in the morning; if you want to
be retweeted, tweet at night.
2. Days of the week: The worst day for RT is Sunday; it picks up
from there and peak RT day of the week is Friday, going back down
from there.
3. Use links: Tweets with links are retweeted much more often –
meaning: send your social media generated traffic to good content.
4. Use Bit.ly: Bit.ly URL shorteners are retweeted the most
(tinyurl is retweeted the least – don’t ask me why).
5. Length: forget 140 characters, the shorter the better. 120
characters is the new maximum if you have any chance to be
retweeted.
6. Use hashtags: using existing hashtags greatly increases your
findability by Twitter users and Twitter bots alike.
7. Short profile names help. This one is optional, but very helpful
for obvious reasons. The shorter your name is the more space you
leave for retweeting.
8. Punctuation matters: Overwhelming 93% of all retweets contain
proper punctuation in them, particularly colons and periods. So pay
attention to those small details.
9. Most Retweetable (read: generate the most targeted traffic)
Words & Phrases social media increase your targeted website traffic
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1. you                           11. please retweet
2. twitter                       12. great
3. please                      13. social media
4. retweet                     14. 10
5. post                           15. follow
6. blog                           16. how to
7. social                         17. top
8. free                            18. blog post
9. media                        19. check out
10. help                          20. new blog post
As you can see, the word “YOU” ranks as number one – a reminder
that we all like to be talked to on a personal level. If you are
talking to “me”, then I am more likely to retweet you.
The word “PLEASE” is very important. If you want to be retweeted,
ask for it and be polite while you are at it.
Tweeting about your new blog posts, particularly on social media,
is a smart thing to do as well.
10. Least Retweetable (read: generate the least amount of targeted
traffic) Words
1. game                           11. well
2. going                          12. sleep
3. haha                            13. gonna
4. lol                                14. hey
5. but                               15. tomorrow
6. watching                     16. tired
7. work                            17. some
8. home                           18. back
9. night                           19. bored
10. bed                            20. listening
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