{"id":9008,"date":"2011-07-26T14:33:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2011-07-26T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:33:40","slug":"twitter-tips-for-newbies-what-makes-irresistible-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/twitter\/twitter-tips-for-newbies-what-makes-irresistible-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Tips for Newbies &amp; What Makes Irresistible Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/twitter-bird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9010\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px 10px\" title=\"twitter bird\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/twitter-bird.jpg\" alt=\"bliue twitter bird\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>If you aren&#8217;t among the more than 20 million people on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/publicityhound\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, you may feel like you&#8217;re late to the party.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s OK.\u00a0 <strong>There&#8217;s no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed<\/strong> that you don&#8217;t understand what all the fuss is about.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, I&#8217;ve discovered, is one of the best and quickest ways to build a huge following of people who are hungry for what&#8217;s in your brain.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>one of the biggest Twitter myths is that the person with the most followers wins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If only a minuscule percentage of my more than 20,000 followers care about the information I share, but a majority of your 300 followers can hardly wait for you to tweet, you could be more successful than I&#8217;ve been.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>5 Tweets That Beg to be Retweeted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So what makes an irresistible tweet?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Content-rich articles.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Clever or helpful videos.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Educational\u00a0infographics.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>I throw in an occasional funny headline or a pithy one-liner just to keep things interesting.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>And I have 4 or 5 formulas for writing tweets that tease my readers and almost force them to click on the links I&#8217;m sharing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t write about what I ate for lunch, what time I woke up, or what the peoplewatching is like when I&#8217;m at the coffee shop.\u00a0 That just adds to the noise and is of no help to the people who follow me to learn about publicity tips.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s only a small part of my strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Many Publicity Hounds still aren&#8217;t tweeting because they aren&#8217;t sure where to start, and they&#8217;ve heard that it can be a huge time-suck.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Learn more on Aug. 4 Webinar\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hosting a webinar next week on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter for Beginners: A Step-by-Step, Can&#8217;t-Fail System for Experts and Influencers (and Those Who Want to Be).<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s at 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, Aug. 4.<\/p>\n<p>This webinar is perfect for Publicity Hounds who manage their own Twitter accounts and for PR people who are training clients on how to manage theirs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the list of things that you&#8217;ll learn. If you&#8217;ve been tweeting awhile and some of that content looks foreign to you, I hope you&#8217;ll join us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you aren&#8217;t among the more than 20 million people on Twitter, you may feel like you&#8217;re late to the party. That&#8217;s OK.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed that you don&#8217;t understand what all the fuss is about. Twitter, I&#8217;ve discovered, is one of the best and quickest ways to build a\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/twitter\/twitter-tips-for-newbies-what-makes-irresistible-tweets\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":6,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[683],"tags":[637],"class_list":{"0":"post-9008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-twitter","7":"tag-social-media-productivity","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}