{"id":413,"date":"2016-06-23T08:34:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T08:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2022-12-17T21:57:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T21:57:30","slug":"mirror-this-tweet-style-for-twitter-success-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/mirror-this-tweet-style-for-twitter-success-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror This Tweet Style For Twitter Success In 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been presenting some of the methods that have improved my Twitter viewership in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, I&#8217;m going to take a look at the tweets I&#8217;ve made so far in 2016 which have gained more than 2000 impressions (some substantially more). The number of impressions that each tweet has received are also shown.<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/storify.com\/DrLancaster\/tweets-from-drlancaster-that-gained-over-2000-impr\/embed?border=false&amp;template=slideshow\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"storify\"><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/DrLancaster\/tweets-from-drlancaster-that-gained-over-2000-impr.js?border=false&amp;template=slideshow\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/DrLancaster\/tweets-from-drlancaster-that-gained-over-2000-impr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the story &#8220;Tweets From @DrLancaster That Gained Over 2000 Impressions During Early 2016&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also performed an analysis to compare these high-performing tweets against the 10 strategies identified to see how closely these match. The analysis is slightly rough, but the strategies and analysis are shown below (you can click on the image to view it at full size):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AnalysisOfHighPerformingTwitterTweets-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-422\" src=\"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AnalysisOfHighPerformingTwitterTweets-4.png\" alt=\"AnalysisOfHighPerformingTwitterTweets\" width=\"1055\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AnalysisOfHighPerformingTwitterTweets-4.png 1055w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AnalysisOfHighPerformingTwitterTweets-4-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AnalysisOfHighPerformingTwitterTweets-4-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AnalysisOfHighPerformingTwitterTweets-4-1024x607.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AnalysisOfHighPerformingTwitterTweets-4-170x101.png 170w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AnalysisOfHighPerformingTwitterTweets-4-284x168.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1055px) 100vw, 1055px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy #1<\/strong>: Use tweets with photos (or include other images)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy #2<\/strong>: Mention influential people in tweets (so long as they will care enough to retweet)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy #3<\/strong>: Mention companies who will want the publicity in tweets<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy #4<\/strong>: Use tweets to promote the agenda and events of the company that you work for<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy #5<\/strong>: Tweet positive comments relating to the achievements of others<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy #6<\/strong>: Engage with Twitter hashtags, or generate them when they don&#8217;t already exist<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy #7<\/strong>: Use multiple tweets on a related theme to build interest<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy #8<\/strong>: Retweet other people to help them increase their Twitter reach<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy #9<\/strong>: Attend (or organise) events and engage with them widely on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy #10<\/strong>: Tweet interesting content on a regular basis<\/p>\n<p>The classifications here are slightly subject to personal judgement. They do depend on knowing my wider tweets, something that would make this automating an analysis like this difficult. But, there are some trends that seem apparent.<\/p>\n<p>All of my successful tweets have taken place in association with events, whether these are talks, marketing activities such as open days, conferences or awards. They&#8217;ve also all formed part of a series of tweets that I&#8217;ve made during those events, almost always referring to companies, individuals and hashtags.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the strategies can&#8217;t be directly analysed in this way, such as retweeting. It&#8217;s also subjective to consider whether content is interesting and often this is independent to the more marketing style of tweets that generate the large number of impressions.<\/p>\n<p>It was also interesting to see that not all of my successful tweets include a photo (but many do).<\/p>\n<p>There are certainly lessons to learn here when tweeting to get results and I encourage you to take a close look at the Twitter marketing strategy that works best for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post, I&#8217;m going to take a look at the tweets I&#8217;ve made so far in 2016 which have gained more than 2000 impressions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[268,13,271,272,38],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","tag-marketing","tag-social-media","tag-storify","tag-success","tag-twitter"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Thomas Lancaster","author_link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/author\/thomas-lancaster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In this post, I'm going to take a look at the tweets I've made so far in 2016 which have gained more than 2000 impressions.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}