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20 Awesome Twitter Statistics That You Need To Know

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Twitter Statistics

There are a wide variety of statistics that people are using to make decisions for their brands. Some bloggers look at their traffic statistics to determine what to do next while Twitter users look at their individual statistics on TwitterCounter. Another group of statistics that are at times overlooked are the statistics on entire social networks such as Twitter. Here are the statistics you need to know:

  1. 23% of Twitter accounts are in the United States.
  2. Twitter users are three times as likely to follow a brand as Facebook users are.
  3. 42% of users learn about products and services via Twitter.
  4. 19% of users seek customer support on Twitter.
  5. 78% of Twitter users are active on mobile.
  6. 49% of Twitter users have an iPod.
  7. Over 500 million tweets are sent out every day.
  8. There are 271 million monthly active users on Twitter.
  9. There are over 100 million users who are active on Twitter daily.
  10. The average user spends 170 minutes on Twitter every month.
  11. 29% of millennials (ages 15-34) use Twitter.
  12. 29% of Twitter users check the social network multiple times every day.
  13. There are approximately 20 million fake Twitter users
  14. 50% of Twitter users are male and 50% of Twitter users are female.
  15. 11% of Americans tweet every month.
  16. In Q2 2014, Twitter timelines got 173 billion views.
  17. 81% of millennials on Twitter check the social network daily.
  18. 50% of UK users have tried a new restaurant based on Twitter recommendations.
  19. The average number of tweets per Twitter user is 307.
  20. There is also a cool website that allows you to see how many tweets are sent out in real time. You can get to this website here.

Those are the 20 Twitter statistics that you can use to make decisions for your business and identify how your target audience uses Twitter. What were your thoughts on the statistics? Did one of these statistics catch your eye? Do you have another Twitter statistic that you know of? Please share your thoughts and statistics below.

What Is A Hashtag?

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Facebook Hashtag

One of the most common questions I get from Twitter newbies is “what is a hashtag?” They appear in numerous tweets, and if you are on the Twitter home page seeing the updates from other people rushing in, it won’t take a while for you to see a tweet with a hashtag.

Hashtags in essence are the SEO for Twitter. All you have to do is put “#” in front of a word, and then you have your own hashtag. When using hashtags, be sure to only use them for keywords. Since my blog is about social media, I tend to use #SocialMedia instead of Social Media in my tweets.

There is a distinct difference between the two because #SocialMedia is a clickable link that leads people to all of the tweets with “#SocialMedia” in it. That means if someone else tweeted #SocialMedia, and someone clicks on that link, the person who clicked on the link will be able to see all of the tweets on Twitter with “#SocialMedia,” including yours. People who enter “#SocialMedia” in Twitter’s search engine also have a chance of seeing your tweets. Of course, this is also true with searching “Social Media,” but every tweet that contain “#SocialMedia” contains that clickable link which can potentially bring more exposure to your tweet.

It is important to use hashtags often and for certain keywords. It is better to dominate one popular keyword such as #SocialMedia than it is to have a mediocre presence from 10 hashtags. In addition, you should make it a point to only have 1-2 hashtags in each tweet. Hashtags have been proven to increase the number of retweets a tweet gets, but the more hashtags are in a tweet, the harder it is to read.

That’s everything you need to know about hashtags. What are your thoughts about hashtags? Do you use hashtags often? Too often? Please share your thoughts about hashtags below.

A Cool Headline Tool To Write Better Blog Post Headlines

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Headline Tool

I recently had the privilege of doing some digging within my own niche. Sometimes, we think we know absolutely everything in our niche inside-out. However, it is amazing how much valuable information related to our niches is on the web. When Social Media Examiner posted the Top 10 Social Media Blogs, I was all over all of them and learned a lot from the research.

There is no way I could write one blog post about all of the things I learned. I must have been on all of those blogs for hours. One of the things I did learn about is a cool tool that allows people to create powerful headlines. The headlines of your blog posts are the attention grabbers which means the better a headline is, the more clicks and readers it gets.

This cool tool is the Aminstitute Headline Analyzer, and it measures how emotionally grabbing your headlines are. The more emotionally grabbing a headline is, the more attention it gets. Some emotionally grabbing headlines encourage people to perform actions such as subscribing to your blog or buying one of your products.

This tool also gives you a percentage, and the higher that percentage is, the more emotionally grabbing your blog post is. I decided to test it out and was quickly amazed by the results.

Going in, the headlines for one of my blog posts was “5 Things About Blogging That Most People Forget.” I thought the headline looked good, but when I ran it into the Aminstitue Headline Analyzer, I got a 12.50%. Initially confused about the low score, I realized this was a negative title. The words “Most People Forget” are not exactly the positive words that people want to hear.

This motivated me to plug in different words to create a better headline. It would have been the same blog post either way, but the only thing different would be the headline. After tinkering with the tool, I finally came up with, “5 Blogging Tips You Absolutely Positively Need To Know Immediately.” This title creates a call to action and emphasizes how important those blogging tips are. This headline scored an 80% on the Aminstitute Headline Analyzer.

Would you rather read a blog post called 5 Thing About Blogging That Most People Forget or a blog post called 5 Blogging Tips You Absolutely Positively Need To Know Immediately? I know which one I would pick.

How did you like this blog post? Are you going to use the Aminstitute Headline Analyzer? Have you used it already? Be sure to share your thoughts below.

3 Easy Ways To Wake Up Very Motivated Every Day

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Wake Up Earlier

Zig Ziglar was onto something when he said that motivation and bathing don’t last which is why they need to be practiced daily. Just because you are motivated today does not mean you are going to be motivated tomorrow. We have all had the sequence when we feel incredibly happy on one day and then horrified on the other day, or the opposite. That is because many people do not see the reason to practice motivation every day. As a result, this motivation does not last.

In an earlier blog post, I mentioned how the first hour you wake up controls the rest of your day. This means on a typical day if you motivate yourself early in the day, you will remain motivated for the rest of that day. Then, you have to repeat the process again tomorrow. Instead of going through day by day trying to motivate yourself, you need to set up a plan for yourself so you start the day right and stay motivated every day. Here are the three ways to get motivated early so you stay motivated for the rest of the day.

  1. Realize that you are a miracle. There are some days when the journey gets rough, and these are the points when we look for a miracle. We look for quadruple the sales in 1 month or a way to get hundreds of thousands of followers in a short amount of time. What discourages people from putting in the work is that many of these miracles take a long period of time to pull off. Few people realize that getting born is a miracle. The way microscopic parts of the body work is that there are millions of possibilities, but you were the possibility that was brought forth to the world. Your birth was a miracle, and that means you are hear for a reason. To make a difference.
  2. Write down 1-3 motivational quote and read it/them when you wake up. Few people think of writing motivational quotes down, and when people write motivational quotes down, they write too many. In this case, less is better because you will have a stronger appreciation of the motivational quotes you have in front of you. I use angel cards to determine what motivational quotes I get. One of them says “Think Global.” I got this card when I had a little under 30,000 Twitter followers and a mediocre strategy to gain a targeted following. The second card is a motivational quote that I read daily that says, “Keep charing ahead, and don’t take no for an answer. Expect miraculous solutions to appear.” It may be easy to imagine how reading that type of motivational quote can charge someone up every day.
  3. Just get out of bed. We all know that sleeping too little is bad for our health and causes symptoms like depression and anxiety. Plot twist: sleeping too much causes the same symptoms. Depending on what time I get to bed, I sleep between 6.5 to 8 hours. I never sleep for more than 8.5 hours at anytime simply because the human body does not need as much sleep as advertised. The people at Buffer have a lot of data on the amount of sleep we really need. Most of the time, I only sleep for 7.5 hours on a given day. The next question you may be wondering is how I always get out of bed at that time. I’ll say that I do not have an internal alarm clock, and I use a devious trick with the alarm clock that wakes me up every day. For some, the trick may be too devious to even attempt, but it is definitely worth it, and it will get you out of bed for sure

Motivation does not last daily which is why it is important to constantly practice these three motivational tips so you have an empowering day. What were your thoughts on the list? Do you have any additional advice on having a motivating day? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

5 Reasons Why I Decided To Use iContact Instead Of WordPress To Send Emails

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iContact

I recently made the switch from WordPress’ free emailing service to iContact. I knew that if I wanted to reach tens of thousands of subscribers, something needed to change. Now I am wondering why I did not make the switch before. iContact has proven to be a more powerful option than WordPress’ free emailing service, and here’s why:

  1. iContact allows me to customize the emails I send out. Instead of being linked to an RSS Feed and sending out an email each time I come out with a new blog post, iContact gives me the power to craft my own emails and include links to blog posts. This allows me to send one email every week containing links to all of the blog posts that I published that week.
  2. iContact allows you to create autoresponders. Autoresponders are a series of emails that everyone gets when they subscribe to your blog. You can space out how long it takes for people to receive an email from the autoresponder and use it to promote one of your products in a way that people would want to buy it. WordPress’ emailing service did not provide this option.
  3. iContact allows me to interact with my subscribers in a better way. No matter which service you use, there is a certain degree of automation. iContact allows you to schedule messages while WordPress would just send a message each time you came out with a new blog post. However, iContact allows me to craft my own message which allows me to interact with my subscribers in a better way. I get to ask subscribers how their day was, what they want to do differently, and anything else I want to ask them all in one email.
  4. I have more control over the confirmation and welcome messages. Not only do I get to write anything I want for these two messages, but I also get to change the way these messages look. I decide what the backgrounds for these messages look like, the size of the font, and everything else as well.
  5. More plugin capabilities. There are more WordPress plugin capabilities associated with iContact that WordPress’ free emailing service. Switching over to iContact has allowed me to do numerous things with my blog such as include a subscription form at the end of every blog post. This was previously not possible with WordPress’ emailing service, and now this form at the bottom at every blog post has been responsible for a majority of my subscribers.

There are some costs associated with making it as a full-time blogger. Buying access to an emailing service is one of the best investments any blogger can make to grow their email list. What are your thoughts on iContact and using paid email service options to get access to more features? Please share your thoughts below.

How To Save Your Valuable Content From Getting Deserted

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Save Valuable Content From Getting Deserted

As you write more blog posts, your older blog posts will get pushed farther below your blog’s main page until they get kicked off the first page. The typical blog post that gets kicked off the first page gets a significant decrease in viewership. However, there are blog posts that were written several years ago that are still getting thousands of daily visitors leaving most bloggers stumped. The question everyone wants to ask is how this happens and how the results can be replicated.

The most important thing for you to know about these types of blog posts is that they dominate the search engines. If you search a term like “Top 100 Inspirational Quotes,” chances are you will still see the Forbes article written in May 2013. Social media is a great way to get initial traffic, but to get consistent, long-term traffic on a daily basis without having to post a tweet on the same blog post every day, incredible SEO is the way to go.

I have been using social media to save my articles that get old but still provide value. However, my most popular articles are the ones that I don’t have to tweet about every day. They bring in traffic through the search engines. I put in the work at one point, and now these articles bring in passive traffic.

What are your thoughts on making sure your blog does not get deserted by using SEO? What advice do you have for people who are trying to pull it off? Please share your thoughts and advice below.