The Easy Guide To Making Your Tweets Soar to Popularity

Make Your Tweet Count

If you want to see a story go popular, choose your tweets wisely.

Be a leader and be the first to tweet breaking news that will soon be heard around the world, and go on to make history. Find a story, website or resource with a funny or unique angle that no one else has spread around yet. Or, find interesting images that are sure to captivate and inspire your audience.

Whatever the type of content that you choose to tweet about, just make sure that it’s so awesome that it makes your followers feel they absolutely have to share it with their friends too, which brings us to the next point…

Get ReTweeted

Whether you’re a user with a moderate following or a power user with many thousands of followers, your tweets depend on the community to go popular.

When you get retweeted, your story is exposed to the networks of your friends, gaining more potential to go popular as more users retweet it. Not all users will be reading their timelines at once, but it increases the chance of your tweet being seen and clicked through.

Keep a steady flow of high quality and interesting tweets and users will take notice. You’ll gain a reputation for making great tweets, get retweeted more often, and you’ll also gain more followers.

Get Help From Your Followers and Friends In High Places

You may be a user with a solid following who has no problem getting retweeted, but you would still like your content to get more traction than 6-7 retweets and a few hundred clicks. That’s where friends come into play.

Don’t make it a habit, but if there is something that you are really passionate about, ask your friends for some help.

Also, if you have a friend with a huge following and your tweet fits their audience, ask if they would consider a retweet. Occasionally you may get lucky and won’t even have to ask, especially if they follow you and take notice.

Don't Forget To Say Thanks

When one of your tweets goes popular and you start celebrating your awesome Twitter success, remember that without your friends and followers, you are nothing.

Always thank your followers when they help you out.

If just a few people, send a quick tweet thanking them, highlighting each of their names. If many people retweeted, say thanks to “everyone” for helping out.

Also, give some love by retweeting friends that helped you out and recommend them to your followers on #followfriday.

Check Your Stats

To see how your tweets did after being released into the wild, make sure to use a URL shortening service that also offers tracking for your links.

bit.ly is arguably the best URL shortener, because not only does it keep links to a tiny 20-21 characters — leaving lots of room for compelling descriptions — but it also provides kickass real-time tracking features for each link that you create.

Sign up for an account to keep a history of all links you make, as well as view stats for each one, including total number of clicks, user locations, tweets they appeared in, referring sites, and performance graphs.

Have Fun!

Now that you know what to do, remember to have fun and avoid getting too caught up trying to calculate every step. All of this will eventually become a matter of habit, helping increase the quality of your tweets and making you a valuable member of the Twitter community!

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