From the category archives:

Retweeting

Hoax: Steal a retweet scam, lie about it, get media coverage

September 1, 2011

Dozens of folks have used a word-for-word identical tweet claiming they made a bet with their boss to get Twitter retweets. You’d think someone would at least change one word! One of the most successful of these scammers copying tweets to get retweets was @PoultryKeeper. They even wrote a blog post lying about what they [...]

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The “bet with my boss” scam. Please do NOT retweet it

August 28, 2011

The “bet with my boss” tweet scam (see bottom of this post) gets people to retweet to help someone make their boss pay for doubting the power of Twitter! However, it’s a scam. People (and some spambots) are just copying a tweet that they’ve seen has worked for other people in order to get more [...]

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An easy way to get someone’s attention on Twitter

August 5, 2011

Find out what people like, and what others like about them. Then retweet or engage them on what they like, or what others like about them. The easiest ways to do that: Read and retweet their all-time most popular tweets. I love doing this. Favstar and Topsy will show you the most popular tweets of many [...]

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Simple tip to get more retweets

August 5, 2011

Here is a great simple Twitter tip inspired by Mack Collier and mentioned by Tamar Weinberg. Tweet your own posts at the same time you tweet about other people’s posts. Doing this will get more engagement (clicks, retweets, comments) on your Tweet. Why? Once the people you have shared something about will see what you have done, you have their [...]

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Joining a Twitter or blog retweet group: Should you do it?

June 10, 2011

There are services that will promote your tweets or blog posts for you. While each offers different controls and methods, most have you join a group where everyone in the group promotes everyone else. There are variations of how you choose who is in your group, create groups, get invited to groups, etc. And variations on [...]

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Retweet Glossary, Syntax and Punctuation

March 29, 2011

“RT” and “via” are the most common abbreviations used, and you can provide retweet attribution to the curator at the beginning or ending of a tweet with a wide variety of punctuation. A good reference to familiarize yourself with is Why Misunderstanding Retweets Can Get You Suspended, which includes information on how and why to credit multiple usernames. There [...]

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How Misunderstanding Retweets Can Get You Suspended From Twitter

March 28, 2011

There are two kind of retweets: editable retweets, and native retweets. Native retweets are what you get if you click “retweet” under a tweet on Twitter.com (or if you have your app set up to work that way). This post is about editable retweets, which used to be the only kind you could use on [...]

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Tips and benefits of being brief when retweeting

March 27, 2011

When there are too many usernames on a retweet to include them all easily, it can be tough to figure out what to do. The main tip is to use every method you can to make the tweet as brief as possible. What I do at @TweetSmarter is: Use a RT standard that is brief. [...]

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How should you credit retweets?

March 27, 2011

This has been fairly controversial. Rather than comment further, I suggest reading: How Misunderstanding Retweets Can Get You Suspended Retweet Glossary, Syntax and Punctuation Recently @TonyRobbins retweeted a tweet from us, using our text and exact short URL, to his nearly 2 million followers.  The problem was that he removed our username, yet still had [...]

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The most complete guide to finding the best time to Tweet

March 3, 2011

Looking for the infographic? Click here or scroll to bottom of post. You might also want to read “What makes a tweet great?” a deeper exploration of RCEF factors, and this great explanation of not being fooled by your social media data. Trying to figure out when your tweets will get the most “RCEF ” is the [...]

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