10 Essential Twitter Stats To Help You Reach More Followers

10 Surprising New Twitter Stats to Help You Reach More Followers Really interesting Twitter stats that can help you improve the way you reach your followers Twitter engagement for brands is 17 % higher on weekends 17% 86% 17% 200% Tweets with image links get 2 times the engagement rate of those without 200% 66% 17% Tweets with less than 100 characters get 17 percent more engagement Twitter users who mostly Amplifiers are 122 percent use a mobile device are 181 percent more likely to be on Twitter during their commute more likely to send direct messages 200% Tweets with hashtags get two times more engagement 181% 122% 66 percent of user-generated tweets 66% that mention brands come from mobile users Tweets that include links 86% 12X are 86 percent more likely to be retweeted Your tweets have a 12 times higher chance of being retweeted if you ask for it, and 23 times higher if you actually spell out the word "retweet." Twitter's fastest growing demographic is 55-64 year-olds 55-64 Hizest Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/belle-beth-cooper/10-surprising-new-twitter_b_4387476.html