Twitter fun facts!

Here are some twitter facts thanks to marketingelf.com , or http://marketingelf.com/events/effective-social-media-techniques/

1.      Focus on retweets

2.      Don’t practice tweet poaching

3.      70% of retweets contain a link

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4.      retweets with a hashtag are more likely to be retweeted

5.      Retweet the classics – classic stories that hold up

6.      Their highest tweet day is Wednesday

7.      Retweet days are Monday & Wednesday

8.      highest # of retweets are from 2:15pm to 3:30pm EST

9.      #1 Twitter city is London

10.  ABO – always be optimizing

11.  troll friends of competitors – if they are following them then they may be interested in your content too

12.  scout hashtag & trends

13.  contest & giveaways are heavily retweeted

14.  put tweet it buttons everywhere

15.  Retweet buddies & ask them to do the same

16.  RT’ers track them & thank them

17.  Keep score and remember to retweet friends

18.  one offs “payback” retweets at odd hours

19.  Dell did $6.5 million on Twitter last year, so it is viable for sales

20.  do some automated tweets, but click throughs are less

21.  quick tricks = traffic

22.  a little extra effort = quality traffic

23.  Drive engagement:
bland- what did you think of Avatar?
Better – was Avatar overhyped?

Interesting stuff! I know it's difficult to remember all of this , and there's may more! You can check out the original blog posting by clicking on the title of the post , or the link at the top of this post.