Want more people to share your tweets?
If you can answer these 7 questions, the rest is easy.
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If you can answer these 7 questions, the rest is easy.
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1. How will sharing your tweet help the person who shares it?
The more benefit someone gets from sharing, the more likely they are to do it.
Does sharing your tweet create an opportunity for THEM?
Does it make THEM seem smart or helpful?
Does it unlock something valuable?
The more benefit someone gets from sharing, the more likely they are to do it.
Does sharing your tweet create an opportunity for THEM?
Does it make THEM seem smart or helpful?
Does it unlock something valuable?
2. What will sharing your tweet say about the person who shares it?
People want to share things that make them look good.
Not bad.
This is why they're more likely to share something as a show of support for a cause than something that's just interesting.
People want to share things that make them look good.
Not bad.
This is why they're more likely to share something as a show of support for a cause than something that's just interesting.
3. How will sharing your tweet make that tweet more valuable to the person who shares it?
For example:
A tweet asking for book recommendations becomes more valuable when it reaches more people.
Because that leads to more recommendations.
For example:
A tweet asking for book recommendations becomes more valuable when it reaches more people.
Because that leads to more recommendations.
4. Does your tweet say something people want to say or wish was true?
People share to express themselves.
So the better you're able to say something people believe, the more likely they are to share it.
Especially if it goes against the conventional wisdom.
People share to express themselves.
So the better you're able to say something people believe, the more likely they are to share it.
Especially if it goes against the conventional wisdom.
5. Does your tweet trigger an emotional reaction?
Emotion drives virality.
This is true for both positive (love, suppport) and negative emotion (anger, frustration).
Emotion drives virality.
This is true for both positive (love, suppport) and negative emotion (anger, frustration).
6. Have you asked people to share your tweet?
Simple. Obvious. Effective.
Simple. Obvious. Effective.
7. Would you share your tweet if someone else wrote it?
This is the ultimate test.
If you wouldn't share your tweet from someone else's account, why do you think anyone will share it from yours?
Don't get high on your own supply.
Be honest with yourself.
This is the ultimate test.
If you wouldn't share your tweet from someone else's account, why do you think anyone will share it from yours?
Don't get high on your own supply.
Be honest with yourself.
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