Top Ten Tweets: I CAN ACTUALLY USE TWITTER NOW!

Posted on by Kyra Azzato

At the beginning of this class I had 38 followers. Throughout the course of the semester I doubled my followers for a grand total of 76. My Klout score increased from 16 to 29.

Tweet #1 

This tweet was vey successful because of the hashtags that I used. Another meme account retweeted my meme which helped it have more impressions.

1 retweet, 4 hearts, 313 impressions with 16 total engagements

Tweet #2

I believe this tweet was successful because it was an interesting graphic on a timely subject. I used the hashtag #WomensHistoryMonth which is why I believe my tweet got retweeted.

1 retweet, 2 hearts, 299 impressions and 13 engagements

Tweet #3

This survey tweet garnered significantly more engagement than all of my tweets before it.  I believe that survey tweets are an easy way to increase engagement because they are fun to participate in, everyone wants their opinion to be heard, and in order to see what everyone else voted for you have to participate. I also choose a topic that is relatable to a majority of my followers.

0 retweets, and 0 hearts, 301 impressions and 13 engagements

Tweet #4

This tweet was successful because it was highly relatable to my twitter audience and it had an interesting bright picture.

1 retweet, 2 hearts, 193 impressions and 16 engagements

Tweet #5

For this tweet I “quote tweeted @JudyArzt who tweeted out a periscope of a giraffe at the zoo. Several people liked my tweet and the @JudyArzt replied to my tweet. I believe this post was successful because the periscope was short, positive and cute so it drew in viewers. 

1 reply, 2 hearts, 337 impressions and 4 engagements

Tweet #6

For this tweet I shared a link relating to suicide prevention. I believe this tweet had a lot of engagement because suicide is a topic a lot of people feel very strongly about. This tweet also provided an interesting take on prevention and detection that is highly relatable to my twitter followers. I believe it got retweeted because this is something people want other people to be aware of.

2 retweet, 2 hearts, 510 impressions and 21 engagements

Tweet #7

This tweet worked because it was extremely timely and everyone was looking at tweets with the hashtag #SuperBowl. I replied to my own tweet and gave an update and that also got 2 likes.

0 retweet, 2 hearts, 581 impressions and 18 engagements

Tweet #8

This tweet was successful because it had a lot of interesting pictures and it was a bigger post that drew the attention of my twitter followers. The pictures also made people want to click on them to expand them which is why there was so much engagement on the post.

0 retweet, 3 hearts, 247 impressions and 21 engagements

Tweet #9

For this tweet I tweeted a gif @RoughGuides an account dedicated to traveling. In hindsight this tweet would have probably had more engagement if I would have started my tweet with “.@RoughGuides” so that all of my followers would have been able to see the post. 

Tweet #10

For this tweet I tweeted at some other Newhouse broadcast journalism students who have a way greater twitter following than I do. I should have tweeted “.@” for this tweet as well.  Two of the three people I tweeted at replied and two people liked the post.

 Upon examination of my tweets it is clear that posts with interesting pictures and relevant hashtags get significantly more engagement and impressions. As the semester went on I began figuring out how to ensure that more people see my tweets (not starting a tweet @, and instead using .@). I also realized that people will respond better to tweets on topics they are interested in. At the beginning of the semester I tweeted a lot of military related topics that I thought were interesting but did not really make sense to my twitter followers so the engagement on those posts was very low. Later in the semester I tried to criterial my content towards my followers which significantly increased engagement.

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