From the category archives:

Retweeting

Top Tips and Tricks to Getting More Retweets:

December 5, 2012

When someone retweets you, they have two choices: they can just click the “retweet” link to retweet it, or they can create a tweet that comes from them, and adds a credit line (such as RT @user) in the tweets. And while you can add “Please retweet” to your tweets, I would do this very, [...]

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Do You Click the Links You Retweet? Not Everyone Does #Infographic

November 9, 2012

Dan Zarella found nearly 1 in 6 tweets had more retweets than clicks, meaning the retweeters weren’t clicking the link. Here are his findings:

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Should You Repeat Some Tweets? I Do. Here’s Why:

May 28, 2012

If there’s important and popular information that’s helpful to people on Twitter, generally I repeat it within a day or so…even though some people are annoyed by the repeating. I don’t earn anything by repeating tweets, and 99% of what I repeat is not written by me or anyone I work with. So I’m not doing [...]

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Infographic: Should You Avoid Twitter’s Official Retweet Button?

February 6, 2012

Most people don’t fully understand the different types of retweets. The traditional, user-created retweet is sometimes also called “retweet with comment” or “classic retweet.” But even if you don’t add a comment to a retweet, there can be benefits to avoiding just clicking the retweet button on Twitter.com (or setting your app to work that [...]

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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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