A Neat Little Twitter Trick
Yesterday I downloaded a couple chapters of Joel’s Comm’s Twitter Power book, and I noticed something interesting on that site.
Joel had a link you could click that would send you to Twitter with a tweet already filled in for you. He obviously did that so his visitors could tweet and spread the word about his book promotion, but up until then, I had never seen that strategy used before.
It’s something that’s certainly worth testing. Given Twitter’s non-pitch atmosphere, I’d recommend only trying it to encourage tweets about pure content or freebie giveaways, though.
What do you think? Feel free to test it out by tweeting about this blog post, which should definitely have mass Twitter appeal and does fit the pure content criteria.
Click here to tweet!
(To see what I did, just right-click the link above, select “Copy Link Location” if using Firefox or “Copy Shortcut” if using Internet Explorer, then paste it in notepad or any text editor.
By the way, lots of useful information and resources in Joel’s book. You can see some of the changes I already made to my Twitter profile as a result (you can also connect with me on Twitter there).
Download your free copy of the eye-opening report, 10 Ways To Write More Effective Ads. Feel free to print it out and pass it it around.
Thanks John,
I appreciated the code and your sharing.
Roy
John,
Wanna make it even more powerful and viral? Add in “RT @john_ritz” (minus the quotes) to the beginning of that Tweet message, and all of those people will be visiting your Twitter profile directly and many more will follow you.
Dennis
Thanks, Roy. Glad to contribute!
Dennis, great tip! I just made the change. There’s another bonus to doing that: I’ll get to see those RT’s in the replies. Thank you!
Excellent tip John,
I will definitely be using that!
Andy
Hmmm…when I right click the link there is no “Copy Link Location,” Do I have to use Firefox? Paul
Thanks, Andy!
Paul, you’re right. For IE users, it would be “Copy Shortcut.” I’ll update the post to reflect that. Thanks for pointing that out.
John
An update: I found a nifty plugin for Wordpress called Tweetmeme (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/). It puts a reweet button at the top or bottom of your posts, using the same concept that I used with the link in my post.
It also keeps track of how many RTs and displays a counter. Something I’m going to test.
John
Hi John,
Thanks for the helpful tip. Do you have a link to a site that lists the various punctuation conversions? For example you use an apostrophe and that’s %27. I’d like to use a period in mine, and I’m not even sure how I would search for this.
Thank you,
Dan
Sure, Dan. I use http://www.asciitable.com
Comes in handy all the time. Here you want the 2-character field under the “Hx” column. Just prefix it with a % sign and you have the code.
So for a period, it would be %2E
Cheers,
John
Thanks John, that’s exactly what I was looking for.
Warmly,
Dan
WOW, awesome trick!
WOW.. that is a cool trick.. thanks! and thanks for following me on twitter. Hope to connect soon. ALSO.. thanks for the wp plugin advice. I’ve been trying to decide which one to download..
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Excellent tip, thanks! This is another reason why Twitter is going viral – little touches like that.
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John,
Very useful. Thanks! Your Twitter Traffic Swarm videos are great too.
- Darrel Hawes
Very good John, much appreciated.
Something that I have really enjoyed is http://spnbabble.sitepronews.com/
Pretty good system and easy to use.
Tipping:) my hat to John.
Terry
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Hey thanks John, I’ve just finished watching your videos on Twitter. I will be implementing them ASAP. Very well explained. Thankyou.
John, just recently started following you and it has been well worth it already!
Thanks John, very useful information, try on my Blog now.
Alexander Mendez
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Great tip John I had seen it before and it never registered to use it.
One question, people still use Internet Explorer? Microsoft dosn’t even use it any more.
Brad West ~ onomoney
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Hi John,
I followed a tweet here.
I do not use the Wordpress blog platform but, I know some people have started switching over to http://twittley.com – Then when someone wants to retweet a story it also places it on the Twittley site, as a post gets more retweets it moves up in rank. Similar to a DIGG.
Like I said, I do not use WP but, I thought it may be of interest to you. I do have the Twittly on my toolbar so, I can submit good blog post even if they do not have a button.
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Thanks, folks! I appreciate the great ideas you shared.
Brad, not sure about Microsoft, but my own stats show that quite a number of people still use IE. And Microsoft released IE 8 not too long ago, so I doubt they’re abandoning it anytime soon.
The cool thing about this trick is that it deosn’t require a Worpress blog. In fact any blog should work, and even a “standard” authority site model will work just fine.
That also goes for all the tips I shared in the video and article in my post “Get More Sales With The Twitter Funnel”, which you can find here:
http://www.johnritz.com/blog/get-more-sales-with-the-twitter-funnel/
Cheers,
John
It is very nice meeting you via Twitter. Thank you for sharing this Twitter information with us. I also am a big Wordpress fan and will be looking up the plugin Tweetmeme that you mentioned and the Twittley info is interesting as well.
Cheers, Andrea
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