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Want More Retweets? Share Links, Be Original, Be Polite (And Stop Tweeting About Yourself)

11/22/2011 Twitter News Posted in: links,original,polite,retweets,tweeting

Retweets are the backbone of the Twitter network.Because of the platform's very powerful ripple effect, the humble retweet allows any single person's message to be quickly shared, then re-shared, and, theoretically at least, be seen by any and everyone on the network.All from the simple click of a button.In the past I’ve written a ton about the different steps you can take to give yourself a much better chance of being retweeted, but what about a more scientific approach?

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Popular Twitter Accounts Engage Less, Share More Links, Says Study [INFOGRAPHIC]

11/11/2011 Twitter News Posted in: accounts,engage,infographic,links,popular,twitter

A recent study from Hubspot has determined that while highly-followed Twitter accounts share a lot of links, they converse less frequently than people who follow less than a thousand people.Twitter accounts with a million or more followers tweet links three times more frequently than users with 1,000 followers or less, but only about 7% of their tweets are replies, compared with 17% for those with the smaller network.

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Goodbye Information Overload: Strawberryj.am Digs Out The Best Links From Your Twitter Connections

9/29/2011 Twitter News Posted in: connections,goodbye,information,links,overload,strawberryj,twitter

Twitter is simply a deluge of information. Links, thoughts, images pour in non-stop, sending your timeline into a flurry of activity every time it's refreshed.Enter Strawberryj.am. This cute and simple app condenses all of the links shared by the people you're interested in on Twitter, and only shows you the most popular ones. So instead of sifting through the 500 links in your timeline in the past hour and a half, you're served only the juiciest, most-shared, and most-retweeted morsels.

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Links Shared On Twitter Last Half As Long As YouTube

9/07/2011 Twitter News Posted in: links,shared,twitter,youtube

The folks at bit.ly, the popular URL shortener service, asked themselves just how long a link shared on a social network "lives". And they found out that links shared on Twitter lasted only half as long as links shared on YouTube.

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What Tech, Social And Marketing Links Are Trending On Twitter Right Now?

8/30/2011 Twitter News Posted in: links,marketing,social,trending,twitter

There's a new tool available for you to track the hottest links on Twitter from 100 of the top news sources online. Popshared.com offers you insight into what's popular right now on Twitter in the world of tech and social media, showing you which stories have been retweeted the most in the past 24 hours.

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All Links 20 Characters Or More Are Now Being Shortened With Twitter’s “t.co”

8/15/2011 Twitter News Posted in: characters,links,shortened,twitter

Like Bit.ly? Unfortunately, it might be going the way of Twitpic and the dinosaurs soon, if Twitter has anything to do with it.Today officially marks the day that all links on Twitter which are greater than or equal to 20 characters will be automatically shortened using t.co, Twitter's own URL shortener. And by automatic, we do mean automatic – you don't have a say in this whatsoever.

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New Media Index: Tweeted Links Surge on U.K. Phone Hacking Scandal

7/30/2011 Twitter News Posted in: hacking,index,links,media,scandal,surge,tweeted

The News Corp. News of the World phone hacking scandal marked its third consecutive week atop the list of the most tweeted news articles, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 18-22.

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7 Interesting Things You Can Tweet Beside Links

7/30/2011 Twitter News Posted in: beside,interesting,links,tweet

It's good Twitter strategy to mix things up, but sometimes it's hard to come up with anything unique to tweet. So most of us default to sharing links to articles we've read, along with the headline, and forget about it.However, this can quickly lead to a mundane, non-engaging Twitter presence if it's all you do. To combat link boredom, here are seven interesting things you can tweet to your followers that aren't links to other people's content.

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