Twitter alert: 6 tips for the best tweets
Researchers at Cornell University have suggested that the structure your tweets could affect their success.
HAVE you been striving to become more popular on Twitter? Science might just hold the key to unlocking some invaluable tips that could help Twitter users perfect their tweeting skills.
The tireless research conducted by social scientists at Cornell University suggests that the style of a tweet is more important that the actual content.
By using a specialised algorithm the researchers analysed keywords as well as sentence constructions from thousands of tweets to determine what made some tweets more popular than others. They then went a step further. Using the special algorithm the researchers created a website that could accurately determine which version of a tweet would gain the most attention. You can access the website to compare tweets by using the following link: https://chenhaot.com/retweetedmore/.
Some interesting results where obtained from the research, and suggest Twitter users should simply ask people to share their tweets. Words such as, ‘please’ (or plz and pls) and ‘retweet’ are likely to make your tweet more successful.
Consistently using common language, or a language that your target audience would use, has also been found to increase the popularity of a tweet.
Another surprising finding indicated that tweets written in the style of a newspaper headline were more popular that other tweets.
Being informative and using positive and negative sentiments were also found to popularise a tweet.
Also, the research suggests that tweeps should use third person pronouns and refer to other people and not only to themselves.
Finally, the least surprising suggestion is to think simple. Write your tweet in so that it is easy to read and understand.
