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  • 9 Ways to Cram More Words Per Tweets

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    Best Practices for Short Tweets

    Courtesy of Pardot, here are nine tips on how to squeeze more words (or more meaning) into your 140-character tweets.

    1. Use Thsrs (http://www.ironicsans.com/thsrs) to find shorter synonyms for long words you want to use. — Click to Retweet #1

    2. Don’t use the word “and.” Just substitute symbols like & or + to save 2 characters. — Click to Retweet #2

    3. Get rid of unnecessary pronouns and articles, like the words “that” and “the.” — Click to Retweet #3

    4. Find the best link shortener out there. Bit.ly is a good choice. — Click to Retweet #4

    5. Substitute numbers for words. — Click to Retweet #5

    6. Use contractions whenever possible. — Click to Retweet #6

    7. Drop vowels from words as long as the word still makes sense. — Click to Retweet #7

    8. Use common abbreviations. While they’re not always pretty, substituting “w/” for “with” can save you 2 characters. “Retweet” can easily become “RT,” and “by the way” is often shortened to just “btw.” — Click to Retweet #8

    9. Use expanded images. A picture is worth 10,000 words. Tweets with expanded images receive 18% more clicks, 89% more favorites, and 150% more retweets than those without. — Click to Retweet #9

    See also: How to Get More Retweets

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    Trees for Troops provides Christmas trees, decorations, and assistance for the holiday season for families who have loved ones serving in the military overseas. Donate here: http://www.treesfortroops.org.

    Curator: John Kremer

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  • TrackMaven: How to Get More Retweets

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    How to Get More Retweets

    TrackMaven just released a report that analyzed 1,423 Twitter accounts featuring more than a million tweets. The report reveals many of the elements that make up a successful tweet, one that is retweeted more often.

    Here are the major results they discovered during their survey:

    More tweets are sent out on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday than other days of the week. Tweets during the weekend are half those during the week.

    Tweets on Sunday get an average of 0.168 retweets, more retweets than any other day of the week.

    More tweets are sent out during the middle of the day than any other time of the day, peaking at noon Eastern time.

    Retweets peak in the late evening hours with the highest percentage of retweets occurring between 10 and 11 p.m. Eastern time (0.194 retweets on average per 1,000 followers).

    More hashtags result in more retweets. 5 hashtags and 11+ hashtags get the most retweets.

    If you use @ mentions in your tweets, you’ll get the maximum number of retweets with 4 or 6 mentions (with a dramatic dropoff with more mentions).

    You’ll get more retweets if you place a link near the end of your tweet.

    Tweets with images get 3 times as many retweets as tweets without an image.

    If you want retweets, ask for the retweet (not an RT).

    The more exclamation marks, the more retweets, with 9 exclamation marks getting the most retweets.

    ALL CAPs tweets get 4 times as many retweets as no caps tweets. Many social media experts recommend that you don’t shout (use ALL CAPS), but this result obviously suggests that ALL CAPS actually produce better results (at least in regards to the number of retweets).

    And for another look at this survey, see http://bookmarketingbestsellers.com/11-proven-ways-to-get-more-retweets.

    See also: 9 Ways to Cram More Words Per Tweets

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    Gifts That Give is a shopping site that donates $1 out of every $5 you spend to a charitable cause of your choice. Shop at http://www.giftsthatgive.com.

    Curator: John Kremer

    John Kremer on Google+


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  • HubSpot: Why You Might Want to Try More Twitter Automation

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    HubSpot - Twitter Automation Reasons

    Most Twitter accounts that have millions of followers feature celebrities, well-known media outlets, sports teams, and the like.

    A handful of accounts – such as @OMGFacts with 5.3 million followers, @BreakingNews with 5.2 million, @NoteBook with 4.1 million, and @WhatTheFFacts with 3.2 million – break this rule.

    How did they get so many followers? The answer is simple: automation of high quality content.

    Do you want more followers, then post 22 tweets per day and tweet more links.

    If you want more retweets (which help attract more followers), feature links in 60 to 80% of your tweets.

    For more details, see this HubSpot post: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/34199/new-data-supports-the-case-for-more-twitter-automation.

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    In celebration of American Heart Month (February) . . . The American Heart Association works to teach people how to identify heart attacks and strokes as well as funds research and treatment for heart disease. Donate via http://www.americanheart.org, or by calling 800-242-8721.

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  • Mashable: Tweets about Pope Benedict’s Retirement

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    Tweets about Pope Benedict's Retirement

    Mashable: As soon as the news of Pope Benedict’s resignation broke, amateur and pro comedians alike flocked to Twitter to launch their best (Rat)zingers.

    Mashable called these tweets hilarious (20 Hilarious Tweets About the Pope’s Resignation). As a Catholic, I am offended. Most of these tweets aren’t funny at all. They are mean, disgusting, inconsiderate, anti-Catholic, and anti-religion.

    Our society today has a very distorted view of what’s funny. That’s sad.

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    In celebration of American Heart Month (February) . . . The American Heart Association works to teach people how to identify heart attacks and strokes as well as funds research and treatment for heart disease. Donate via http://www.americanheart.org, or by calling 800-242-8721.

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  • 11 Reasons Why Brands, Businesses, and You Should Be Active on Twitter

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    11 Twitter Reasons

    This infographic showcases 11 reasons why brands, businesses, and you need to be active on Twitter. Note: Twitter doesn’t have to take much time to have a big impact.

    140 million active users tweet an average of 340 million tweets per day.

    40% of Twitter users regularly search for products via Twitter.

    86% of people who’ve posted a business complaint on Twitter expected a response.

    71% of complaints on Twitter are not responded to by the business.

    74% of people on Facebook use it daily, compared to 35% of those on Twitter.

    29% of people on Twitter follow a brand.

    39% of people on Twitter have tweeted about a brand.

    29% of people have retweeted a brand tweet.

    62% of Fortune 500 companies have an active corporate Twitter account.

    Companies on Twitter get two-times the amount of leads per month.

    Shorter hashtags on Twitter are more popular than longer ones.

    Charity Showcase

    The National Blind Children’s Society focuses on helping blind children. This U.K. society’s goal is to enable blind and partially sighted young people to achieve their educational and recreational goals. It focuses on providing educational advocacy advice, family support, and the correct equipment for each child’s home and school. For more information, check out http://www.nbcs.org.uk.

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  • Twitter Hashtags: What You Need to Know

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    How to Use Twitter Hashtags

    The hashtag (#) is used to highlight keywords or topics in a tweet. Originally created by Twitter users as a tool for categorizing messages, the hashtag is now also used by members of Pinterest, Facebook, Google+, and other social networks.

    Here are a few good reasons why you should be using hashtags in your tweets, pins, and Facebook posts.

    Hashtags featured keywords that help you find your target audience.

    Hashtags enable you to drive interested people to your content.

    Hashtags allow users to engage in targeted chats focused on shared interests.

    Tweets that include hashtags receive two times more engagement than tweets without hashtags.

    24% of tweets contain hashtags.

    Tweets with more than two hashtags have a 17% descrease in engagement.

    To locate the best hashtags to use, check out http://www.hashtags.org, http://www.twubs.com, and http://www.tagdef.com.

    See also: Social Media Hashtags for Book Authors – http://bookmarketingbestsellers.com/41-social-media-hashtags-for-book-authors

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    Rainforest Alliance helps to protect the forests, wildlife, and people of the rain forests. Also works to provide education and healthcare to children of the rain forests. To learn more about small actions that can lead to big changes, go to http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/smallactions.

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    John Kremer on Google+


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  • Infographic: Facts and Figures on Twitter Marketing

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    Twitter Facts and Figures

    Twitter Infographic: Everything you ever wanted to know about Twitter marketing.

    Twitter has over 500 million registered users, but only 140 million users are active.

    Every day, Twitter gets 300,000 new visitors.

    Every day, 1 million new accounts are created on Twitter.

    25% of Twitter accounts have no followers.

    40% of Twitter accounts have never sent a single tweet.

    The average Twitter user has 27 followers.

    The top 5 countries with the most Twitter users are the US, UK, Australia, Brazil, and Canada.

    More searches are made on Twitter each month (24 billion) than on Yahoo and Bing combined (13.5 billion).

    79% of Twitter users in the U.S. are more like to recommend brands they follow; 67% are more likely to buy from these brands.

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    SmileTrain helps to give children in the developing world a new life by supporting free treatments of poor children with clefts. Their motto: Changing the world one smile at a time. You can donate via http://www.smiletrain.org or by calling 800-932-9541.

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  • The Complete Tale of John Kremer on Twitter

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    John Kremer on Twitter

    Here’s another Visual.ly created infographic (http://create.visual.ly). This one features the Twitter activity of John Kremer, but could just as easily featured your Twitter activity. It takes all of five minutes to create an infographic like this.

    John Kremer started tweeting on March 9, 2007, but didn’t really get active on Twitter until two years later.

    He has around 24,000 followers, has posted 11,000 tweets, and favorited just 56 tweets.

    John Kremer was mention 2,930 times in the past year and appears in 754 Twitter lists.

    This infographic was brought to you by Visual.ly, Amstel Light, and @JohnKremer.

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    ChildHelp USA maintains a 24-hour National Child Abuse Hotline at 800-4-A-CHILD. For more information, see http://www.childhelp.org.

    Curator: John Kremer

    John Kremer on Google+


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