Comments on: What’s in a Retweet? The Data Behind Viral Messaging on Twitter

By: Saurabh Sahni — What is your retweet rank?

Saurabh Sahni — What is your retweet rank? — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:32:40 +0000

[...] are great indication of the originator’s topical influence and the audience’s interest. Recently, after reading a post [...]

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college essay — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:31 +0000

RT is simpler; that explains its popularity. this really shows how people take control of one part of technology. social media is a great driver of people's participation

By: The Science of ReTweets

The Science of ReTweets — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:34:30 +0000

[...] Earlier data I analyzed hinted at two of these trends; calls to action (and polite ones at that) and the tendency to use ReTweeted to spread external content. [...]

By: » Ten Ways to Get Re-Tweeted - New England Social Media

» Ten Ways to Get Re-Tweeted - New England Social Media — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:17:58 +0000

[...] Tweet at the Right Time. Dan’s discovered that retweeting grows steadily during the course of the weekday and is heaviest after 3pm EST. He [...]

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media buying — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:24:25 +0000

Interesting info, I wonder if advertisers take this into account when doing media buying on social networks.

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media buying — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:24:25 +0000

Interesting info, I wonder if advertisers take this into account when doing media buying on social networks.

By: scottfasser

scottfasser — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:48:49 +0000

Hi Dan, interesting data. I'd be interested to know the avg number of RT's per tweet or how many tweets generate a RT.

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By: Copywriter Karen Goldfarb - 5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter | Karen Goldfarb, Copywriter

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:48:00 +0000

[...] Links. Straight from Dan: “The data also showed that almost 70% of all ReTweets contain a link. This is good news for marketers in that [...]

By: 5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter : Cotton Rohrscheib

5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter : Cotton Rohrscheib — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:00:23 +0000

[...] research has shown that the word “please” occurs in ReTweets far more often than it occurs in other [...]

By: The Linguistics of ReTweets | Dan Zarrella

The Linguistics of ReTweets | Dan Zarrella — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:31:50 +0000

[...] done a bunch of research into the characteristics of ReTweets in an effort to understand what makes them viral. [...]

By: Monika Miklos

Monika Miklos — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:36:57 +0000

Very informative! Nice job Dan!

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:21:18 +0000

Nice Charts Dan, though I am missing something:
An additional point that Twitter is a world wide used tool and that your graph on time is most likely spoiled by that. )

By: fleurbrown

fleurbrown — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:13:04 +0000

How can you tell if someone has retweeted a tweet (other than staying online to check). Is there a widget for that?

By: Santosh Puthran

Santosh Puthran — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:34:35 +0000

Dan,

Very informative article. Did you design the ReTweet This widget ? that’s really cool. I would also like to have such widget on my blog.

Regards,

Santosh Puthran

By: realmatrix

realmatrix — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:51:39 +0000

I stumbled on this through a tweet or retweet by @niceprof. There is some very interesting and salient information provided for those of us who use twitter on a regular basis. Thanks

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:07:15 +0000

hmmmm. A lot of thought going into retweeting. he he.

By: Molly Gordon

Molly Gordon — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:38:28 +0000

Awesome. And I’m interested in data about the number of iterations of a given Tweet/RT. How many Tweets are RTd twice? Three times? Ten times?

Thanks!

By: bansi

bansi — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:57:02 +0000

As a web analyst and Twitter lover, this post is just awesome!

By: Jesse Liebman

Jesse Liebman — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:08:53 +0000

RT is an essential piece of having an effective Twitter strategy. Here’s what I’ve applied so far, including the infamous RT:

http://www.jesseliebman.com/2008/12/15/captain-planet-meets-twitter-strategy