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Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

David Gibson — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:33:11 -0000

Interesting to see Retweet activity occurs when I was least expecting it ie late afternoon and through the evening and on Thursday and Friday. I need to change the time I tweet from mid morning Tuesday to Thursday and start tweeting mid afternoon with more on a Thursday/Friday.

Thank you for sharing this - really useful
David

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Aimee Giese — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:20:42 -0000

Another homerun post Brian, thanks.

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

StephenPickering — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:44:47 -0000

Hmmm, Great post, but I don't understand that last circular graph. What do the colors in it stand for? And from the looks of it Friday and Monday are the most retweetable days, whereas I thought you said Thursdays and Fridays. Oh, also, would you put the Please Retweet or Please Share at the beginning of the tweet or the end or does it matter? Thanks! :-)

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Satya Prakash — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:52:43 -0000

This is really very useful information. Thank you are sharing the research findings.

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Ron aka LANWANMAN — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:34:22 -0000

I read "The Science of Retweets on Twitter" and really appreciate the useful information I obtained. It is time to tweek those Twitter Centric Marketing campaigns. It will be interesting to see the extent of improvement in retweets. I am certain the ideas in the article will be a big value add to our marketing efforts.

Ron aka LANWANMAN, Ocala, Florida USA

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Donagh Mc Sweeney — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:48:11 -0000

Very true! If someone says "please RT" I automatically switch off. They also put themselves in danger of being unfollowed if it's persistant self promotion.

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Donagh Mc Sweeney — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:44:50 -0000

Great post. One of the things that caught my attention was the analysis of the URL shortening. In my opinion the only reason that bit.ly is way ahead of the rest is because it has been annointed by Twitter as the default URL shortener and most people don't bother changing it. Tools like TweetDeck also have it as default, so really I don't think it's too valid to say that by using Bit.ly you increase your chances of an RT

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

gwalter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:26 -0000

Great post - great numbers - great analysis. Thank you!

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

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Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

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Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

angelinasimon — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:40:54 -0000

Thanks so much for passing this along Dan. I’ve been looking for concrete Twitter stats and info and this definitely seems like a great lead. Do you happen to know of any sites that deliver stats on clickthrough rates for Facebook and Twitter? I’ve found sites that claim average Twitter clickthroughs to be anywhere from .1%-4%.Managed hosting

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Angela Olsen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:27:40 -0000

I appreciated all of the information in this post. I do a lot of RT'ing and have studied for myself which Tweets I'm more likely to RT. I think that the most relevant advice you gave to people who want to attract RT's is to make a Tweet less than 140 characters from the beginning. If I have to think a lot about which of your precious characters to leave out in order to RT, I'm more likely to move on to the next Tweet. There's just too much good information out there to waste my time.

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Hannah — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:27:42 -0000

I found this post interesting. All the different statistics that show what people retweet is significant. I was surprised that self-reference was not one of the highest retweetable emotional and cognitive factors. I would think that when people read a tweet about themselves they would acknowledge the person who tweeted about them by retweeting their statement. I found it interesting that many of the words listed on the “Least retweetable words” list were “boring” or everyday, normal activities such as, work, sleep, bed and tired. The reason for this could be that people retweet things that are new or interesting not things that happen everyday and our just part of a person’s normal routine. Friday was the most retweeted day and the day that people twitted the most on. I was not surprised by this because I would think people would tend to like to tweet about what they are doing on the weekend and people would be more likely to retweet someone’s tweet on Friday because it is most likely something new, and newness content is retweeted more than average, everyday content.

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Terrance — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:57:23 -0000

Now that's what I call a post Brian, I didn't know Monday and Friday was the best RT days, I thought it was on the weekends when people are off from work, thanks for the testing.

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Shai — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:24:42 -0000

One needs to be very cautious about the data suggesting that "please retweet" and the like get you more re-tweets. It is possible that regular use of "please retweet" could have a negative impact on the number of your followers as well. It's really important to focus on what your goal of a re-tweet would be in advance of strategizing about how to get it retweeted.

In terms of trying to understand Twitter as a terse communications form, I'm really interested in the tweets that get re-tweeted without having links embedded. Those would be the best examples of powerful ideas being expressed within the limited space.

Again re: caution about the research. It might be easier to get re-tweeted via including a link. But your tweets that get re-tweeted without having a link in them might have a bigger impact on developing your Twitter brand.

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

jssavona — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:12:54 -0000

This Site is BRILLIANT

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Hannah Tighe — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:58:07 -0000

Wow! Thanks for breaking down all that info, very informative post!

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Kat — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:28:13 -0000

Excellent blog! I'll definitely RT. :)

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

cheeky_geeky — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:43:49 -0000

I am a little surprised at the time of day numbers. In my experience living in EST, I get the most RT's between about 7-10am, when people are getting ready for work, or just arriving at work. My magic time for "breaking new thing I just wrote) is about 8:30am.

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

kureng — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:12:18 -0000

very great analysis of retweet

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

btrandolph — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:44:07 -0000

I got burned on a few retweets I shared too quickly where the link content wasn't what I thought or even where I didn't agree with it at all! now I make a point of re-ading before I re-tweet...

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Rose Clark — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:38:48 -0000

This is a keeper. Retweeting is an integral part of the Twitter experience.

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

briansolis — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:11:58 -0000

Indeed...I'd also like to see how many people who RT a link actually read the content before sharing it...

Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Bernie Ritchie — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:34:47 -0000

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Re: The Science of Retweets on Twitter

Green Cathedral — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:36:50 -0000

Time zone probably plays a role. More than 70% of tweets are from North America.
A division in continents or even countries will provide different pictures.
For example: South Africans are not retweeters and only 3-4% of South African tweets are read by South Africans. Most responsive words (retweets) for South Africans are 'bokkie', 'hardegat', 'bakgat' and 'gatvol'. In Europe you willl see that relativily most retweeters are based in UK. Etc. etc.

But still: interesting