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What makes a tweet great?

A great tweet gets: (R)etweeted (even possibly becoming a TT—trending topic). (C)licks on its link. (E)ngagement, including comments and replies (or a response from a specific user) (F)avorited This...

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Twitter only pretends to give you more characters sometimes :(

UPDATE: I’ve corrected some misinformation in the original post. Thanks to @WebTrawler for pointing it out. I should have known better. Twitter long ago announced they were going to do it this way, but...

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Why The #$%& You Should Tone Down Your Language

If you’re driving people away who want to hear your message, you’re making a mistake. You’re losing followers and readers. Virtually every day I read an otherwise interesting blog post about Twitter...

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Shocking discovery for writing shorter tweets

Really: this actually shocked me. Suddenly I started writing shorter tweets without even trying to! Editing to make things clearer and shorter has been a hobby of mine since I was young—of course I...

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One simple trick to writing more popular tweets

By testing, I’ve learned that the better a tweet sounds when starting with “Reminder: ” the more popular it is likely to be. Tweets written to seem urgent, timely or containing critical reference...

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How Tweets Can Be a Very UNfunny Version of “Who’s on First?”

It can be hard to have a conversation just through tweets. Sometimes it reminds of that classic vaudeville skit “Who’s on First?” Recently I wrote some blog posts to provide folks with questions on a...

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Infographic: What to Tweet—Are YOUR Tweets Worth Reading?

The authors of an academic paper covered by the Harvard Business Review asked respondents to rate 43,000 tweets as either: Worth Reading Not Worth Reading Just OK The overall results: The authors...

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One Amazing, Easy Trick For Writing Great Tweets

Whether you’re writing a post or linking to someone else’s, finding the most compelling point about the topic is critical. The most compelling point is what you need to put in the tweet, and if you’re...

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How To Tweet To Lots of People And Not Get Suspended

If you tweet to people that don’t follow you, and they decide to mark you as spam, your Twitter account could be suspended for “sending multiple unsolicited mentions to other users.” In this post I’m...

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