How to get more retweets on twitter like PROs

How to get more retweets on twitter (like PROs)

Twitter is one of the best social media platforms to promote your brand, to build relationships and to drag a

good number of hits to your blog. Just like getting more re-shares on Facebook turns out to be very beneficial,

getting more retweets on Twitter benefits you in many ways.

You may tweet anything like your blog posts, normal tweets, about your business or about your products but

one thing is common and that is whatever you tweet, you may want to get more retweets on them.

In this post, I will explore more about getting huge number of retweets on your tweets.

Here I am sharing few surefire Professional ways that help you get more retweets on your tweets:

Tweet Timing

Not all twitter users focus on tweet timing, but it is a very important metric that decides how your tweet is

going to perform. According to an infographic published on Quicksprout, Saturdays and Sundays are the best

days to tweet and if you talk about timings, 9AM, 12 PM, 3PM and 6 PM are the peak hours. If you post a

tweet in these peak hours or days, your tweet will likely to get good response and retweets.

However, this doesn’t mean that you should not tweet on other weekdays. You can tweet whenever you want

but according to the research and analysis the above-mentioned timings are recommended ones in order to get

more retweets on your every tweet.

Put humour into your tweets

Making people laugh with your tweets may get you a good number of retweets. Though we are bloggers and

write about some serious tech and marketing ideas, we don’t have funny things to talk about but we can put

some humorous elements in our tweets to make our followers happy and they get tempted to retweet them

instantly.

For example, take a look at the above screenshot of Larry’s tweet which is geeky and at the same time, it has

humour as well. He got 235 retweets and 124 favourites which is quite well. He got many replies to this

particular tweet as well.

Therefore, start tweeting something that is a mixture of humour and your stuff.

Understand your Audience

Understanding your audience is the best thing you must do because if you don’t know who your followers are

then how would you know their needs and likes?

Therefore, it is important to know your audience and tweet something that they are interested in. This will

surely give a boost to the number of RTs to your tweets.

Suppose your audience/followers are mostly from the medical background, and you are tweeting only technical

things then do you believe they would be interested enough to check your tweets even? I am sure they won’t!

You may not expect RTs from them.

Thus, it is important that you tweet those things that are tailored for your audience.

Use images in your Tweets

Tweets with attention-grabbing images get 150% more retweets, 89% more favourites and 18% more click

through than what other tweets get.

Therefore, start using attractive and attention grabbing images in your tweets to grab the attention of your

audience. You may even post mini-infographics as images to get even better engagement.

Use Hashtags

This is a well-known fact that tweets using hashtag perform better than normal tweets. Using hashtags allows

you to get your tweets viewed even by non-followers as well because when you use a hashtag in the tweet,

your tweets can be found when someone search for that particular hashtag. Thus using various hashtags can

boost the engagement of your tweets if it is used in proper manner. Don’t overdo it!

Write attractive text while tweeting your blog post

When you click twitter share button on your blog to tweet a blog post then it takes link and title of the post to

form tweet content, I would rather suggest editing the text part, and writing something that looks more

interesting and eye catching. If you start tweeting this way, you will notice more engagement on your tweets.

Include Links in tweets

It is said that 50% of retweets include links, which means if you are publishing a tweet with link; it is likely to

get more retweets than a normal one. Therefore, while posting tweets, try to embed your blog post links in

them.

Try to use a URL shortener like bitly or goo.gl to shorten your URLs. This will give you valuable estate to add

more text to your 140 character tweet.

Retweet others’ tweets

Reciprocation is the new way people interact and help each other over social media. So keep retweeting useful

tweets from different people, and they will likely to retweet yours as well.

The other thing is, when you retweet others’ tweets, your twitter timeline gets filled with diversified content

and not just only your own tweets. This helps you increase engagement and retweets.

Bonus Tip:

Ask people to retweet you: Don’t be shy to ask your friends and audience to retweet your tweets. It helps! If

you are very shy to ask directly then you may do it in some creative way by adding text “Plz Retweet” to your

tweets. Hubspot says doing this generates 4x more retweets.

Conclusion

Twitter is something that you simply cannot ignore when it comes to market your product, business, website or

blog. Most of the potential customers you may find hanging out there. The ways you have just learned to get

more retweets are proven and many experts are already opting to these.

If every tweet of yours has a good number of retweets and favourites then your twitter timeline will seem to be

a brand and more people will start following you and start retweeting you even more.

Follow these tips and start working gradually and you will see the difference within a short span of time. I

want to hear from you as what you have to say on this particular topic.