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Looking to drum up more interaction with your Twitter followers? Well, other than avoiding the more obvious out-of-bounds type tweets, the “rights” and “wrongs” of tweeting are not always terribly clear.
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Looking to drum up more interaction with your Twitter followers? Well, other than avoiding the more obvious out-of-bounds type tweets, the “rights” and “wrongs” of tweeting are not always terribly clear. What are some best practices when it comes to rules of engagement in the Twittersphere?
Kevin Shively of Simply Measured reports on the “5 Surprising Tips for Tweets That Drive Engagement” derived from Simply Measured’s “Twitter Benchmark Report.” The report is an analysis of over “23 million engagements (Retweets, @Replies, & Favorites) from 117 million users interacting with 145,828 brand Tweets” during the fourth quarter of 2014.
And the surprising top 5 Twitter tips are:
- Tweet Text Only
- Use Your 140 Characters
- Use Hashtags…But, Not Too Many
- Use Links and Hashtags Together
- Show Excitement and Convey Urgency