ReTweet ~ The Wild Thing In Twitter
Posted by Ching Ya | Posted in Social Media Tool, Twitter |
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Sorry for the horrific drawing, but I think it presents well on what RT’s all about in Twitter. The wild thing that gets us all crazy and all hyped about. Sadly, it’s no where as adorable as the original characters. For those of you who loves the story, shame on me for taking the advantage. Oh well, it’s a one-go thing, I kinda followed my instinct. Just be thankful I gave you something to tease about. =P
It’s impossible to miss a ‘RETWEET’ (RT) verb when you’re on Twitter. Whether or not they are repeated, the point is, people tend to Re-Tweet! Have you noticed? A lot of discussions going on about RT etiquettes, ways to RT, whether or not to RT… some even opined it’s pointless to do so! But regardless of all that, we can’t deny the influence of RT in Twitter.
With the emerged of mass-following Twitter tools such as Tweepme, we really need to re-evaluate the true meaning of ‘authority’ in Twitter rankings. I don’t need to go deeper on the WHYs, since Kevin Gibbons (Director of Search at SEOptimise) has explained clearly about the Power of RT in his post of How To Find Twitter Twits to Retweet Your Tweet. If you’re still in between whether amount of followers or RT should best served as a measurement tool for tweeters’ rankings, I would suggest you to have a look at TechCrunch’s well-written article about It’s Not How Many Followers You Have That Counts, It’s How Many Times You Get Retweeted. Period.
We’re all hoping to be on top of the game, to provide the best references to the public & be liked. However before we go further to the brilliant RT-related tools, let’s not forgetting there are several etiquettes that are to be followed as well. You don’t want to end up blocked or nagged as inconsiderate for your mass-RTs, right?
1. Retweet Etiquette by Dan Zarrella.
2. Twit-equette Rules To Remember by Trish Lawrence
Wanna check out what’s HOT in ReTweet?
Not that I encourage you to RT whatever is on the top ranks of these pages, you could, of course, but it’s still preferably to look for unique contents that really matters to you and your network buddies.
Popular Links/Tweets:
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– As I’ve introduced this tool in previous post of Killer Apps (pt2), not only it’s the most-used RT resources of all times, it also provides plugin for blogs to encourage post-tweets.
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– this is very similar to tweetmeme, yet not as popular. It also provides a listing of the most retweeted tweets in the time range of 30 min, 2 hrs & 24 hrs. Results are not realtime as Tweetmeme, which tracks the most popular links every 5 minutes. However, it does provide another good source for your RTs.
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– The collection of popular links on Twitter, again (they never fed up with these, don’t they?). Twitturls has them sourced out from twitter feed and displayed for your viewing pleasure. Fixed with a ‘Tweet This’ link each to bring you to the Twitter official page and get them ReTweeted, again. Good news for WP users as a plugin of Top Twitter Links by Twitturls is prepared for you at the side bar.
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– Showing the latest RTs from the last ‘hours/day/week/fortnight’. You can either Reply the tweet, or Retweet it. The times of retweet are displayed as below. In case you’re wondering what the ‘show‘ is about, it just brings you back to the header of ‘hours/day/week/fortnight’ options, no biggie.
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– Tag Clouds. Locating Trends in the midst of all the RT information in Twitter, and sorted within the clouds. Click the tag you’re interested in to be directed to Twitter Search results. Time range? From yesterday, today till now. To search for past trends? The info stored up till 3 months by Archive, just in case you’re interested.
I’m not sure how many people would look for the ‘past trends’. However, it’ll direct you to Twitter Search as well. Kinda like, finding the past within the real time conversations. Hmm.. *rolling her eyes*
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Twist
– Look familiar? Yes, it’s the flaptor logo we came across in previous entry, only Better! Where you get to check on the trends and monitor your keyword based on a GRAPH! (Finally something slightly different, huh?) A simple Twist to rest your eyes from the numbers while having an overview on how the keyword processed through time.
A preferred choice of mine than radar. It’s obvious, American Idol only HOT during mid-weeks, don’t believe me? Check on it, that’s what Twist is made up for.
The Most Re-tweeted individuals:
Of course, it doesn’t mean that all the highly ranked @ with high amount of followers worth all the ‘following’; however they’re there for a reason. Whether or not you’d like to find out, here are some tools to measure their rankings according to their Tweets.
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– from the Top 100 Retweeted Links to the most ReTweeted individuals. You can discover who is being retweeted by whom while getting the latest links that are being RT the most. You could have an overall check of the tweeters’ retweetability from Retweet History as well.
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- From his post The Science of Retweet, a calculation is made by Dan Zarrella to measure the ReTweetability of people’s tweets. How infectious are they, why is everybody RT-ing their tweets?
The best way to find out, is to have a look on their site or conversations. I would suggest you to not just follow blindly, unless you’re really interested in their topics.
That’s a whole lot of info to digest in 1 day. I’ll pause for awhile to let you get on to your tweets @ RTs. Next I’ll be sharing with you some RT tools that you could tryout to monitor your RTs while at the same time, gain some new followers/following individuals.
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Hahaha i love your drawing. Your blog is awesome. Keep up the good work.
Awesome post Ching Ya! I can see you put so much work into it (whew!) and it is really informative.
Great stuff.
Anonymous, thank you so much. ^^ It’s a bad drawing, really. I just suddenly thought about the bookcover, and did it anyway..
Rosey, thanks a lot. Glad you found them useful. I enjoy Twitter alot, the power of ReTweet does have its values. Amazing gadgets.
I love your drawing!
WOW! is all I can say that my brain is on overload – I have a twitter account, and keep getting emails that people are following me.. but I haven’t gone anywhere!! I keep hearing re-tweet..but haven’t investigated it..
I am wondering if this is the new all rage, as Facebook was at the beginning of the new year.. what do you think?
Welcome Gran,
Really? Thank you so much. ha.. maybe a little drawing imperfection would help some bit of an impression? =P Would love to see you here sometimes.
Susie,
I missed your drawings, and so sorry you have to see this atrocious one (with ballpen).
Back to Twitter,
I can understand. I wasn’t really into that at the beginning either,only after trying it, I realized people are in for the social-networking that literally helps in respective involvement, especially on the web. Comparing to facebook, it could provide realtime info-sharing, and spread to larger crowds than facebook in a short time. People are following you willingly for your info, and vice versa. ^^
It’s interesting as Twitter was started off since 2006/7, getting mass attention last year, and wilder nowadays. To me, it still has some good months to go, unless it starts to ask for payment from users @ more unnecessary adds overlapping its site/widgets. Let’s hope not.
It all kind of intimidates, if not downright terrifies me.
I don’t know what to do with all the choice.
Hi Jannie,glad to see you here. =)
ha.. well, I guess too much choices do kinda intimidating, especially for such a long list. However, when you get to practise them a little bit, it's not hard to determine which will benefit you the most. Everyobody has own preference, and that's what choices are all about. Although we do hope for: the more the competitors, the better they'll improve their gadgets respectively to meet our demands. ^^
For me, I'll go for:
-Tweetmeme to get the most Retweeted topics or incoming ones;
-Twist (flaptor) to monitor the trends (graph makes it easier)
-Twitter Official Search for the ultimate check; user details & realtime results
It's a matter of preference. ^^
Like everyone else, I love the drawing too. Its so much better than what I could do. lol.
I do love twitter but I am so “twitter illiterate” (“twilliterate”?lol). Thanks for all the great information.
Hi Lilymom, always a pleasure to have you around. I'm sure your children could do far much better drawing than I. I don't know where my guts came from. ha..
I wouldn't use "twilliterate" on you as you're doing fine so far. ^^ My problem with Twitter is there are way too many 3rd party gadgets emerging due to it. Brief postings with several sentences can't satisfy my curiosity about them, might as well test it out & share some thoughts. Lots to learn, really.
Great post! Lots of information…
I’ve tagged you in a meme! Check it out.
Wonderful post Ching Ya. I learn so much coming here.
Hi Sadie, nice to see you here. ^^ Wow, so another 6 random things about me huh, might need some times to think about it. Thanks for the tag.
Hi Pink mama,glad you enjoyed your stay. Hope to see you here often. Take care.
You do realize I’m Pink Mama? lol
ha.. I didn’t aware until I got in your Pink homepage. So Ms Pink has transformed? ^^
No matter how, I still welcome you with arms open wide, and a big big hug, Rose.
Another great informative post by Ching Ya and enjoy reading it. Sure will take your advice in using Twitter tools. By the way, I think the drawing is such creative. Nice job!
Thanks alot iValueNews. ^^ Always glad to have you here. I can see you’re getting quite used to Twitter already, good for you.
Hi Chinga Ya,
Great post and very detailed.
Hi Salute, how are you? ^^ Welcome back, always.
Did you able to pick up some useful tools for your Twitter-usage? Hope everything goes well for you. A new post is coming up soon?
See you around. Take care.
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