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A horrible use of Plz RT is if you are trying to make a topic trend of Twitter. Another horrible use of Plz RT involves any spam tweets such as "How to Gain a Billion Twitter Followers in 90 Days."
I'd agree that the power/celeb Twitter users get more RT's, but that is becuase people want to be associated with them and be seen by them so they get noticed.
Let's be honest, we all want a RT from someone like our buddy @chrisbrogan here! Chris, hook me up man!! (totally kidding, i wouldnt be that bold)
Power users are great for people who are less known but who are still churning out great content to be noticed.
I almost commented that you're the Seth Godin of social media... but a bigger and more suitable compliment would, of course, be that you are the Chris Brogan of social media. Thanks for post after post of easy to take-away social media goodness! And for being such an-all-around-good-guy!
I'm a serious didactic scientist, whose produced the global solutionto the collase of the world economy that's Humanomics(sm). And its four major parts have to be "branded" ans so after 450 Tweets I've NOT yet begun. First mistake, was to max the 140 char. limit on most of them, thus all of them are outside limit when going wiith RTs and before knowing the rules max with 2000 followings and so what suggestions might work?
Tky, Yehoshua Ya'acov
1. people are used to tweet with you
2. people see you as a friend and trust you
3. the person that tweets it is a VIP or a celebrity or someone that is very popular.
Thank you,
@TomaBonciu
All this implies you are consistently active.
http://twitter.com/franswaa
http://twitter.com/#search?q=peterkim%20chrisbr...
"'Get More Retweet Action' writes @chrisbrogan http://digg.com/u13iSX Please Retweet. Ha!"
http://twitter.com/stevegarfield/status/1859553365
You're dead on regarding retweets. I spend 90% of my time editing tweets so that it's retweetable. People need to be concise as possible and cut down on unnecessary characters/words. You almost have to write tweets as headlines; short, concise and to the point.
Retweeting is a great way to connect with new friends and build credibility. Make sure to include any twitter names, in articles, if they have one. It assures that they'll see your retweet on their mentions. It's a good chance they will retweet, follow or engage you.
I also agree, anything about Twitter, How to's or lists will get retweeted often.
Chris, for weeks I've been mulling writing a blog like this -- but it's really outside my general scope & purposes that deal with art, inspiration and understanding (brain). So glad you did so now all I need do is RT and add this comment. ; -))
I do not RT any causes or pleas for help that I do not personally have real solid info on, unless they come from someone I trust, like Chris, to have checked it out. Far too many charities and pleas are or verge on scams. There is an important ratio of where the money is spent or goes. Does it go to those it's supposed to help or administrative costs and salaries. I want, and I want my followers to have the most bang for their charity bucks.
Also, the least likely way to get a RT is to ask for it, with a link in a DM. If whatever it is is so great or important it belongs in the stream from the get-go!
Again, Chris TY so much. But I gotta go now and RT this!
@judyrey
But I never stop to think "oh, is this going to get retweeted, how am I going to get this retweeted" or anything of the sort because that's not conversational, it's promotional. And, as for your 15:1 rule, so you're recommending people become RT bots, for the most parts? Why, what is the value? Oh, if you RT a lot, you MUST know something, so I should RT you? How is there logic in that?
As for my 15:1 rule, I'm recommending people not be self-promoting turds, and that they retweet other people's stuff where appropriate WAY more than they do their own.
You're making up interesting end goals, but that's not what I wrote up. Nothing to do with who knows what. Just a functional how-to.
And, by showing people HOW to make their tweets re-tweetable (which, at the end of the day, matters SO little), you're TELLING them how to self-promote their OWN Twitter channel.
As for the 15:1 rule, maybe I didn't make myself clear on it. That rule is akin to scratching their back. Most people will look to then RT something of yours, when you take the time to RT something of theirs. It's human nature.
As for functional how-to, we've talked about that before. You write on tools, and just tools and that is extremely helpful. But, people need real world experience and recommendations on how to use with clients, not just for themselves. That is what's helpful.
I have personally connected thousands of people on twitter through retweeting other people's tweets.
More than ever with the change to twitter's @ replies,
retweets are a great way to bring awareness to someone, some link they're sharing, a time sensitive event, the fact that someone is on twitter, etc.
(Thanks again Chris)
- @Ed
I don't see what the problem is here, then again I'm not looking for any ;)
What i like about you Chris is your approach and tact, and thats something we can all learn from (at least those who want to!!)
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Well, the @davemark would be whoever's post I was retweeting or resending. You get the idea.
Terrific post, thanks!
-- Dave Mark
Of course you want to make it so folks don't have to edit.. you want to remove friction.. but at the same time.. sometimes you just want to make the best damn tweet you can.. and sometimes you need a little extra length.. and sometimes that's the more important thing.. so I think its a question of balance.. and what the right balance is.. changes from moment to moment.. as a combination of.. lets say your will.. and the will of.. lets say strategic / tactical considerations, and that of the ecology of the folks you're following / following you..
You know.. its like relationships.. good relationships are give and take.. and you don't want.. if you just went to the middle of that.. you'd never be giving or taking.. so I guess what I'm trying to say is its ok to be one way one moment, another another moment..
Don't know how well i got to what I meant to get to but....
Retweeting for causes is something we plan to do more of. No one wants to sift through a sea of "empty tweets".
Let's make our world better -tweet by tweet!!
Thanks for sharing your best practices...much appreciated!!
Coretta
@businessethos
How do you feel about people who say "please RT" in the tweet? Somehow that seems to bother me.
Be careful with the @ChrisBrogan is looking for because Twitter considers that to be an @reply to Chris Brogan, thus only the users that are following the two of you will see the tweet. A better option is to say: Everyone! @ChrisBrogan is looking for...
I've shared some of those very tips just this week. Problem is I feel like it's preaching to the choir. FOlks that get it, get it, those that don't, won't?
Another great step to getting retweets is to get directly to the source. Don't send folks on a wild goose chase to find the actual thing you're interested in sharing. So many times folks send me a link to just a blog home page and not the actual post. Same thing goes for general web sites where they should send me to the actual page on the blog.
Mentioning it's video is a big plus for me as well. Where my day job is, streaming video is verboten. Saves me the click through.
Another hint is not to mislead folks. Don't set folks up for one thing and link something else. Funny once, after that it's of no interest.
Makes me want to dump one of these on my blog again.
Good stuff as always Chris.
I do notice a major increase to my blog http://deanholmes.me when I retweet a power user - as well as views on my Twitter Profile. Content and timing are key here - get your mix right and you could get rt'd often as well.
Thanks Chris.
Happy Tweeting!
Wouldn't it be nice?
You haven't seen the research, yet.
We're slow to publish, sure, but give us a chance to give you the real data.
And these five points are not exactly what we seem to be seeing.
~Joe
Julie
Feeling connected and sharing good info with others will never be just a fad.
Just like you said I try to ensure that my tweets have enough space for it to be retweeted without major editing by potential retweeters. There are tweets that I see that I would love to retweet but when I try to shorten it and it's too long I just don't.
That's how I do it.