15 Twitter Statistics You Probably Don’t Know, But Should

15 Twitter Statistics You Probably Don't Know, But Should Power of Visuals Tweets with images get 150% more retweets, 89% more favourites and 18% more clicks than those without. Add images in the form of graphs, comics, photos, etc. to your tweets. Videos Work Too 2 Tweets with videos get 28% more retweets. 3 Engaging Hashtags Tweets with one or more hashtags are 55% more likely to be retweeted than those without. #3 / Open & Close Quotes 4 Tweets with quotation marks are 30% more likely to be retweeted than those without. 5 Display Excitement Tweets with exclamation points get more retweets per follower than those without. Build With Numbers 6 20 378 13956 retweets. Tweets with numbers or digits get 17% more 7 Most Retweeted Words P The 5 most retweeted words are you, Twitter, please, retweet and post. Find a way to incorporate them in your tweets to get more retweets. Power of Please 8 Tweets with the words Please RT, get 3 times more retweets than those without and Please Đ tweets with the words Please ReTweet get 4 Retweet times more retweets than those without. So if you want more retweets, ask for them. 9 Length Matters Tweets between the lengths of 71 and 100 get the highest number of retweets. Bitly Wins 10 bitly Tweets that contain links shortened using Bitly are 9.28% more likely to be retweeted. Fame Doesn't Last Long 11 24 Minute Fame It takes a tweet 24 minutes to receive half of its retweets. This is the pinnacle of all its engagement. Receiving retweets may continue, but it will be incomparable to the initial spark. For maximum engagement, schedule your tweets with 24 minute intervals. Mention Others 12 Tweets containing 'Via' and @'have higher click thorough rates on their links. The best way to use the word and the symbol is by mentioning others. So make it a point to mention and credit people in your tweets. 13 Not at the End The Links placed about 25% of the way through the tweet receive the highest number of clicks. So place your links early on in the Begining tweet, instead of the end. Time Does Matter 14 1 12 10 -69 The best time to post on Twitter is between 1PM and 3PM and the best days are between Monday and Thursday. 15 Share More Links Users who share more links in their tweets gain more Twitter followers. So share links to a lot of content in your tweets. By Social Marketing Writing SOCIAL MARKETING WRITING www.socialmarketingwriting.com http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-power-of-twitters-new-expanded-images-and-how- to-make-the-most-of-it http://danzarrella.com/new-data-use-quotes-and-hashtags-to-get-more-retweets.html http://tracksocial.com/blog/2012/10/optimizing-twitter-engagement-part-3-tweet- length/ http://danzarrella.com/infographic-exclamation-points-get-more-retweets-but-fewer- clicks.html http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/14982/New-Data-Proves-Please- ReTweet-Generates-4x-More-ReTweets-Data.aspx http://danzarrella.com/the-url-shorteners-that-will-get-you-the-most-or-least- retweets.html http://blog.wisemetrics.com/tweet-isbillion-time-shorter-than-carbon14/ http://socialmarketingwriting.com/best-and-worst-times-and-days-to-post-your- social-media-updates-infographic/ http://danzarrella.com/infographic-how-to-get-more-clicks-on-twitter.html https://blog.twitter.com/2014/what-fuels-a-tweets-engagement http://socialmarketingwriting.com/popular-words-social-media-make-infographic/ http://danzarrella.com/new-data-tweet-lots-of-links-to-get-followers.html