7 Simple Ways To Get Re-Tweeted

Posted by Scott Williams

June 30, 2009

Twitter

retweet This post will get straight to the point… If you want to get Re-Tweeted Follow These 7 Simple Ways:

Leave 18-20 characters available in your tweet… allows enough room for your name @ sign and RT.
Tweet content that provides value to a broad audience… quote, humor, questions, compelling thought, breaking news, tips…
Make sure your tweets are consistent… like a newspaper subscription, followers learn to trust and grow to expect a particular type of content.
Don’t consistently ask your tweeps to Re-Tweet your stuff… every once and awhile is okay, if you ask to often it will fall on deaf ears.
Re-tweet other’s tweets if you find their information of value…don’t be a Re-Tweetaholic or again it will fall on deaf ears.
Develop a twitter brand, presence, notoriety worthy of being Re-Tweeted…some tweeps have earned the right for their content to be Re-Tweeted, no matter if the content is good, bad or ugly.
Write a simple blogpost about How To Get Re-Tweeted or get tweeted by @ Twitter_Tips

Share your thoughts on these 7 Simple Ways To Get Re-Tweeted. Do you have any additional ways to add to the list?

http://www.twitter.com/shawnjroberts shawnJRoberts

Provide links to pictures of attractive women without clothes on. I don’t do this and usually would not click on such links, but you would probably get retweeted and, of course, leave 18-20 characters for retweeting.
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http://www.radsmarts.com Robin Dickinson

Thanks, Scott. Nice, direct and to the point.I would add:

8. Add value before retweeting: if there is space, you can add a few words that signpost to your followers what you liked about the tweet or why they should pay attention to it.

Cheers, Robin
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http://www.joannamuses.com Joanna

I think number one and number 4 are particularly important. Number 1 because it takes too much effort to edit down long tweets while still reflecting what was originally said. Number 4 because unless the content is of high value to a large number of people, its just annoying. It comes across as really arrogant if you ask people to RT tweets that are self promotion or useless rambling because it makes it look like you think strangers love you so much that they’ll do it. Its one of the things i’ll unfollow people for
http://www.jennifercady.blogspot.net Jenn Cady

So great to meet you Scott in Hendersonville!!!! You might have convinced me. I might be tweeting by the end of this week …we shall see Tweet!!! tweet!!!

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