How do you make your Tweets go viral?

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Permalink Reply by Noah Coffey on September 28, 2009 at 11:50am

One reason that bit.ly is so high up on the usage list is that Twitter bought bit.ly and made it the default URL shortener for all non-shortened links.

One tip for tweeting with the purpose of getting retweeted is to make sure your original tweet can be easily retweeted without it being modified. Meaning, make sure that there are enough characters left to add "RT: @yourusername " in front of your original tweet. This, of course, is easy to figure but different for everyone depending on the length of their username. I'm actually surprised that some Twitter clients haven't started warning you when you approach your "optimum retweet length" (most warn you when you approach 140 characters).

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Permalink Reply by Jack Shepler on September 28, 2009 at 2:47pm

Bit.ly is the default shortener, so no surprise there.

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