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Note: You can edit the tweet before you send it out.
Here are two great blog posts on how to get retweeted on Twitter.com.
How to Get Retweeted by Guy Kawasaki: http://blogs.openforum.com/2009/02/18/how-to-get-retweeted
The Science of Retweets by Dan Zarrella: http://mashable.com/2009/02/17/twitter-retweets
Basic advice:
1. Ask to be retweeted. Say please. E.g.: Please RT or Please retweet.
2. Link to a great blog posts. People like to retweet great blog posts.
3. Post a funny joke or great quotation. People like to share jokes and quotations.
4. Post a list (or a link to a list). Lists are very popular.
5. Offer a freebie. Tweeple like to pass along freebies.
6. Share breaking news or timely content. The hotter it is, the more it gets retweeted.
7. Tweets about Twitter get retweeted. Tweeple love Twitter.
8. Keep tweets to 120 characters so people have room to add RT @username in their retweets. If you push to the 140 limit, people will have to edit your tweet in order to retweet it. Sometimes it's really hard to edit a tweet so it doesn't get retweeted.
9. To have people retweet any content on any page with your special message insert the following code to the top and/or bottom of your blog post, website page, or Squidoo lens: < a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=140 CHARACTER MESSAGE HERE">Click Here< /a>. Note: Eliminate the spaces between < a and < /a. See the sample below:
Recommend this blog post in a tweet, by clicking here
Note: You can edit the tweet before you send it out.
Here are some of the current retweets of tweets by @johnkremer: http://www.bookmarket.com/twitter-rt.htm.
