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The Twitter Election

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Secrets of Effective Twitter Campaigns

Understand the power of 140 characters.

Sound like a human. Be succinct & funny.

Limit Tweets to a single idea.

Avoid status updates.

Use between 85-130 characters.

Don’t start public tweets with “@”.

Give them something good to Tweet.

Give them something to retweet.

Measure twice, Tweet once.

Never use more than one link per tweet.

Parody accounts are caricatures.

Host Twitter events on your website.

Use retweet count to test messaging.

Maximize reach on Mondays and Fridays.

Tweet between 10-7 PM EST.

Use #FollowFriday to show recognition.

Don’t Tweet like teenagers text.

Promote Tweets to combat parodies.

Prepare new account launches early.

Don’t feed the Trolls.

Hashtags will be co-opted.

Twitter Trends favor novelty over popularity.

Plan a Twitterbomb at a set time.

Use Direct Messages to spark Twitterbombs.

Direct Message influencers using SocialBro.

Followers protect against account suspension.

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Don’t send @mentions to many users rapidly.

Revoke Bad Applications to Stop DM Spam

Twitter “Hacking” doesn’t really happen often.

Trends organize topics, then find identifiers.

Following is the best way to get followers.

Target geographically using advanced search.

Ask for retweets using “please retweet”

Use Twibbons to establish community identity.

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