How to Get Readers to Share Your Tweets

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Looking for some Twitter tips to take your tweeting to the next level? Keep reading to discover how to get your audience to share your tweets.

Wouldn’t you love to know which words are the most retweetable?

Can’t you see yourself? There you are, soaring above the competition, racking up shares (does anyone really use the word retweet anymore?).

Ah, can’t you just taste the glory? You’d be a Twitter rock star, right? A member of the Twitterati.

Well, not exactly. You’d still have to figure out how to use the most retweetable words in every tweet.

And you’d feel a little like James Joyce who, legend tells us, struggled with what order to place his words. (Now doesn’t that explain Ulysses?)

Well, a part of your struggle has been fixed. We do know what the most retweetable words are, and that’s half the battle.

20 Most Retweetable Words and Phrases

The 20 most retweetable words or phrases for engagement and retweets, according to Dan Zarella, author of The Science of Marketing, are the following:

you
Twitter
please
retweet
post
blog
social
free
media
help
please retweet
great
social media
10
follow
how to
top
blog post
check out
new blog post

Below are my thoughts on some of these words and phrases along with some Twitter tips for writers.

Updated Thoughts and Twitter Tips

You– “You” is an easy word to include in tweets, which are often headlines for blog posts unless you’re conversing with someone. You already know that the word “you” is important for search engine optimization on your website because you want to talk directly to your reader. And using the word “you” in blog posts can be smart. So it makes sense that “you” would top this list.

Twitter / social / social media / media– Isn’t it kind of narcissistic that among the top words on Twitter would be the word Twitter and some of the possible variations of social media? But, hey, #TwitterTips is a hot hashtag on Twitter, so if you’re not a nonfiction author writing about social media, or if you’re not a fiction author wanting to help out your colleagues by teaching them something new on Twitter or social media, well, you’re out of luck.