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Three Characteristics That Make Up The Perfect Tweet

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Not all tweets are created equal. Some tweets get more retweets and interaction than other tweets. The retweets and interaction have a lot to do with enough people actually seeing the tweet. However, creating the perfect tweet is possible. However, the perfect tweet differs for each Twitter user.

The perfect tweet can mean taking advantage of a trending topic and say something humorous about that trending topic. The perfect tweet could be a link to a great blog post. There are different ways to tweet the perfect tweet, but there are three characteristic that all perfect tweets have.

The first characteristic of a perfect tweet is that people need to be interested in the topic you tweet about. The news stories get retweeted because many people want to know about what’s going on. A poorly done Vine video won’t get a lot of attention. However, you can’t tweet for everyone. There are a lot of social media enthusiasts, but if you tweet about social media, there is a real possibility that someone you’re tweeting out to isn’t a social media enthusiast. As long as you get attention from a majority of your followers, you’re tweet is going to get retweeted a lot.

The second characteristic of a perfect tweet is that your tweet must be easy to understand. Stuffing a tweet with hashtags makes the tweet more difficult to understand. A tweet with typos is going to be difficult to understand as well. If someone gets confused when they read a tweet, that tweet is not a perfect tweet. If one person gets confused by a tweet, chances are other people will be confused by that tweet as well.

The third characteristic of a perfect tweet is that the tweeter or one of the first people to retweet that tweet is very popular. Some people are going to disagree with this third characteristic since popularity doesn’t decide how good a tweet is written. A perfect tweet is one that is a tweet of quality and a tweet that gets shared a lot. The perfect tweet cannot be the greatest secret. If it were a secret, it wouldn’t be perfect. Popularity will result in more retweets, and more retweets will result in more people knowing about you.

It’s very important that you don’t view popularity as being the big guy with 100,000 followers. You can be popular with only 500 followers that read every tweet you send out and retweet as many of your tweets as they can. When it comes to popularity, it isn’t a quantity game. It’s a quality game.

Those are the three characteristics that make up a perfect tweet. Think about these characteristics as you send out or schedule your tweets today so you can end up with the next perfect tweet.

 

How To Find Top-Notch Twitter Followers

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We’ve established the difference between a real follower and a fake follower. The real follower actually tweets and can engage in a conversation with you. The fake follower is just a statistic to give people the false impression that you’re popular.

Now it’s time to establish the difference between a real follower and a top-notch follower. The real followers are the ones who actually tweet and can engage in a conversation with you. Since there are plenty of real followers, plenty of your followers are going to have different interests. A blogger on Twitter isn’t going to get the attention of a follower who is only interested in fashion.

This is where the top-notch followers come into play. The top-notch followers are the cream of the crop. If you tweet about blogging, these followers are bloggers, they enjoy reading blog posts, and they have their own blog that they update regularly. The top-notch followers have a lot in common with you. They’re the top-notch followers because they are more likely to click on your links and share your content.

The best way to get the top-notch Twitter followers is with Twellow. Twellow breaks down Twitter users into plenty of different categories and subcategories. Twellow has its own category for blogging, plenty of subcategories for sports, plenty of subcategories for marketing, and so on. If you talk about sports, follow the people who talk about sports who are most likely to follow you back. Once the person follows you back, you got a top-notch follower.

Having followers is good, but it’s more important to have followers who know who you are.

What’s Presented And What’s Good

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100,000 followers may seem like a lot. If they’re fake, that’s not good. Even if all 100,000 followers are real, if they don’t share your content, subscribe to your blog, know who you are, or buy one of your products, that’s not good.

Virality shows up every once in a while. YouTube videos get millions of views. That Hump Day video from Geico is hilarious. Then, there’s the, “15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.” That’s good because Geico gets its message out, and people will continue to say, “It’s Humpppp Dayyyy!” The next question would be how many people actually buy Geico insurance just by listening to that commercial.

500 followers may not seem like a lot, but if 100 of those followers bought one of your products, that’s really good.

If the presentation looks good, that doesn’t always mean the quality is there. A first time speaker with an incredible Keynote proves my point. The Keynote is the presentation, but the first time speaker isn’t going to be as influential as the guy or gal who has been speaking for years.

Before you determine whether or not the presentation looks good, or if an idea fits your business, do the homework to find out if that idea is a good fit for your business.

20 Proven Methods To Get More Twitter Followers

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Here is the giant list of ways to get more followers on Twitter. It is up to you to implement what is on the list:

  1. Tweet regularly.
  2. Tweet consistently.
  3. Follow people with good follow back ratios.
  4. Follow back your followers.
  5. Retweet other people’s tweets.
  6. Don’t primarily focus on tweeting what you want to tweet. Focus on tweeting what your followers want to see. You’ll get more retweets and influence this way.
  7. Promote your Twitter account on other social networks.
  8. Say something very clever about a trending topic. This will get you a lot of retweets and exposure.
  9. See when your followers are on Twitter by using Tweriod so you can figure out when to send out your best tweets. If your followers always see your best, they will continue to follow you and spread the word.
  10. Be patient. If you get 20 followers every day, you’ll get 7,300 followers every year. You’ll get more followers per day as you get more followers though.
  11. Focus on quality. Buying Twitter followers will accomplish the job of giving you more Twitter followers, but fake followers aren’t going to help your ideas spread on Twitter or any social network. The quality followers are the ones you build upon.
  12. Do something creative. Don’t do what everyone else is doing. Be different on Twitter, and in what you do, and you’ll get more followers.
  13. Start conversations because people need a reason to talk with you and tell their friends about you.
  14. Be quick and reliable. If you aren’t replying to an important tweet within 30 minutes with an accurate response, that’s not good enough because the average person is only using Twitter 23 minutes every day.
  15. Have a good bio. People need to know about you before they decide to click the follow button.
  16. Have a picture of YOU. The people with hundreds of thousands (or millions) of real followers have pictures of themselves. There are few exceptions, and for the exceptions, not all of their followers are real. If you’re afraid to put a picture of yourself on social media or the web, you’ll be afraid of doing the incredible.
  17. Tweet popular content. You can see how popular a link is right now with the URL shortener, Bitly.
  18. Look at the statistics. If one of your links is getting clicked like crazy, tweet that link tomorrow as well.
  19. Use TwitterCounter to find out when you gained the most amount of followers. By figuring this out, you’ll be able to identify what you did on a particular day that led to the best result.
  20. Tweet quality content. It’s good to tweet what other people want to see, but if you can combine that with quality, you have the winning formula.

Some Of My Social Media Videos

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I did a lot of videos over the summer, and my goal is to come out with one video every week about social media, blogging, and business. Right now, there are only videos about social media and blogging, but I can guarantee you that videos about business will show up as well. If you want to learn a lot about social media and blogging, these five YouTube videos will help out a lot.

In addition to those five videos, you can subscribe to my blog where I will give you free access to the Mastering Pinterest Video Tutorial where I share my knowledge about Pinterest and becoming a power user.

You can see all of the videos here.

Numbers Are Overrated

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Someone has 100,000 followers. Are they real, fake, or inactive? How likely are they to even buy one of your products or at least retweet something you tweeted?

Someone’s YouTube video has 1,000,000 views. What did you get out of those views and exposure, and were those views paid for?

Someone’s Facebook post got 50,000 likes. Are those people just liking a lot of posts, were those likes paid for, and did getting all of those likes and exposure benefit your business (more sales, more followers, etc)?

Someone’s blog post got shared 5,000 times. Who shared the blog post? Someone with 10,000 followers or 10 followers?

Someone got 10,000 visitors on their blog today. Did the traffic come from a third party site?

Someone has 5,000 blog posts. Were they all actually good or were there some one-liners that didn’t make any sense? Were there any long blog posts that didn’t make any sense?

The numbers are overrated, but many people don’t see it that way. These people are focusing on spending their money and resources on temporary solutions to simply boost numbers. These people don’t spend their money and resources on things that can actually benefit their businesses. Are you spending your money and resources on your business the right way?