Twitter: Good Timing for Tweets & Re-Tweets?
Ever wondered why no one re-tweeted? Or on the contrary: why you got so many re-tweets for something you did not expect to become viral? Dan Zarrella is a social media and “viral marketing scientist”. He studied what makes certain Tweets more viral than others and found several reasons:
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The number of followers
The semantic tweet content (timely, freebies, lists, blog posts, links)
Re-Tweet Timing – peaks between 12pm – 2pm – at least in North America, also not for Europe, Asia and Pacific Regions
Cascading Effect: The more times content is re-tweeted, the more likely it is to be further spread.
Re-Tweet others “”You scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours.”
“Please ReTweet” or “Please RT”
Dan Zarrella writes a fantastic Social Media Marketing blog. Read his post: Examples of Viral Marketing Campaigns and his blog post about Re-Tweets.
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Credit: http://visual.ly/art-getting-retweets
The Art of Getting Retweets infographic
Rachel Sprung listed 11 Guarantied Ways to Get Others to Re-Tweet Your Content:
Discuss Current Events
Nearly 80% of retweeted content is about news
Don’t Be Overly Self-Promotional
Include Links to Your Website
Content that is credible, intelligent, and valuable
Over 50% of retweeted content is entertainment-related
Ask Others to Retweet You
Consider the Timing of Your Tweets
Read the rest of the reasons for re-tweets in her blog post at Hubspot.com
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Timing of your tweets:
It seems Friday is the best day of the week, to get re-tweets. Tweet between 12 noon and 2pm to get a maximum of re-tweets for your Twitter content.
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If you have a WordPress blog: Did you already install the “Re-tweet” button? Just found a site
where they describe how to do it, both, automatically or manually: http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-retweet/ Happy Tweeting!
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