Twitter is one of the top 5 Traffic source for Shoutmeloud. I often get into discussion with my fellow bloggers on the way of tweeting the post. Most common question I was asked is : Is it good to tweet your post multiple times or just tweet it once ? .
I always suggest and recommend to tweet your blog post multiple times. This is because twitter is global and so is your follower. You have follower from different parts of the world and probably when you have tweeted your post, other side of world may be sleeping and you are missing a great amount of traffic. More over your readers are missing a useful blog post.
How you Should tweet your blog post multiple time?
I work on simple strategy and that is tweeting single post multiple times in a day. I tweet maximum 3 times any single post in a given day. I maintain a gap of 8 hours before tweeting the same article and make sure in between I have tweeted other articles also. This is because your followers might get annoyed seeing same twitter updates multiple time. Eight hour gap make sure that most of your followers won’t see the duplicate tweets.
You can use of many twitter web tools to schedule your tweets. I personally use Hootsuite for this purpose. You can also make most out of it be scheduling the same tweet after every 7-10 days. This will make sure your old posts will keep getting traffic. Meanwhile you can also follow me on my personal twitter profile @denharsh to connect with me.
Do you tweet your single post multiple times or you tweet once and leave the rest for your readers?
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Harsh, Nice Strategy will try this out in the next few days, also having more followers also helps increase the reach in this strategy.
I’m sure it will help..but don’t over do it and make sure to include hashtag into your tweet keywords.
I agree with you mate! but we should not over do it, so our followers may get irritated!
I agree with you Pubudu, overdoing is like killing your own brand.
Its really nice strategy, i will try to follow this strategy from now on
I’m glad Loveish you find it useful
That was a healty tip!
I re tweet my older posts every week but didn’t repeated the posting of tweet every 8 hours..
Will surely follow it.
Sagar even retweeting your post every week is a good advice as you will keep driving traffic to your old posts. Even I do that and my upcoming post is based on it
Why didn’t I think of that…great advice.
Thanks Christina. I’m glad you find it useful
I’m not too sure if this is on the fine line of spamming your followers, if they see the same thing over and over again they are going to unfollow you like a shot!
Karen It depends how we take it. For example when I work I stay online for 8-10 hours and after that I’m gone. And similarly after 8 hours your followers from other zone come online and they must have missed your updates which you have made earlier. Retweeting will make sure that your followers will not miss that update.
i was skeptical about tweeting my own posts….but you gave a good strategy to follow
Yups Thats a very good strategy..
And yes If you want to tweet a post multiple times in day, then you can use service like hootsuite which provides you scheduling option.
You can schedule a same tweet multiple times a day.
Hem — i just know about it, i will try . And it give me an idea that we should tweet our old post.
Great article friend! I will try HootSuite now!
nice idea dude
Now I know the reason, why your updates comes multiple times. Initially I thought I have read somewhere…
Nice tip.
I also tweet 3-4 times per day, it think it’s not too much, and it’s definitely very useful.
Interesting thoughts about Retweeting. Before going through your article, I was tweeting my blog post once only, but now I’m thinking of doing it multiple times may be 2-3 times for some of popular posts on my blog.
Thanks for the suggestion about hashtags, will try not overdo it.
I think 2 tweets for a single post in a day will work better. First, to avoid multiple tweets of the same link. Secondly, you still have the option og using other micro-blogging platform to get inorganic traffic…
I follow the strategy of tweeting tweets from different category. Keeping variation in tweets will help getting your followers attention.
i have never thought of re-tweeting my tweets more than once, this is a good idea for sending traffic to old articles
Tweeting a post multiple times in a day is good strategy to bring traffic from different countries, but we need to make sure that it should not look like spam tweets. I have used this strategy with my blog and it definitely works!
I too agree with you as most of the followers wont be able to View out tweets if we twitted only once. It is always good to post multiple tweets.
Its a habit which I came up with off late. Even the right time tweet a post is also important.
I think tweeting a new post a second time is ok but tweeting out posts that are old is a definite no in my book. i would unfollow anyone who did so, there is promoting your content and then there is overselling it.
Hi Harsh
Tweeting a post multiple times is best option for base articles and not for all.