User:RheingoldRiver/Twitter

When you tweet, you're broadcasting a message to hundreds of people actively - thousands at high-traffic times. If your tweet gets retweeted enough and by people with high enough follower counts, it could be tens of thousands. Your goal is to capture the attention of two groups: Everyone who is already majorly invested in your content will be clicking your links anyway. You need to reach people who are less invested with catchy but brief wording, and you need to get people to retweet your content by being succinct and interesting. Obviously not every tweet is going to be successful, but some will and those need to be as polished as possible - and drive people to the site.
 * People with high follower counts to retweet.
 * People who have only a passing interest in what you're tweeting to click your link or follow you.

Learning to tweet really really well is a very long process that takes months of practice. Don't expect to be amazing at it instantly, but try to make every tweet as good as you can. (Obviously, if it's super time-sensitive, time becomes more important than care.) But it's also super fun to come up with well-worded tweets (at least I think so) and it helps out your writing across the board if you have a lot of practice phrasing things on a micro level like this. So have fun :)

This is a list of tweets that I'm pulling from @codesportspedia and shortening. You don't necessarily need to make each tweet as short as possible, but practicing doing that is good when you want to add a link and don't have enough space. Some of the tweets won't necessarily decrease overall character count, but they will add rephrasings / hashtags that may make them more catchy.

General notes:
 * Start with a brief question to hook people in and then write what they should do - "Who do you think" is a better lead-in than "Let us know" not only because it's shorter but also because you're immediately asking people about themselves and giving them a question they can instantly answer.
 * Don't put a URL and a hashtag consecutively without having a | in between them. It makes it slightly nontrivial to see the link.
 * All URLs take up the same # of twitter characters, but you can just type " bit.ly/... " instead of " http://bit.ly/... ". It'll look cleaner and also be easier to read.
 * Saying "....here:" and then a URL isn't necessary, you can just end with a colon before the "here" and link your site.
 * Try to phrase things actively / in the present tense instead of passively / in the present perfect tense - this is an extension of "Who do you think" instead of "Let us know" but also applies to other things - The team picks up a player rather than the team has picked up a player. Tweets are like headlines, it's ok to say "NEWS: Neslo to FeaR!"
 * Also try to avoid adverbs. "Stay updated" not "always stay updated." Write as directly as you can.