I love data. I’ve spent the last 5 years of my career dedicated to doing research on huge datasets of hundreds of thousands and millions of rows to reach best practice conclusions. And those conclusions are great for experimentation with specific brands and audiences.
But the real power comes when you begin analyzing your own, individual sets of data so you can find out what kinds of content, timing, and behaviors work best for your specific audience.
Enter RetweetLab.com! Using this free tool, you can analyze any Twitter account — including your account or a competitor’s account — to unearth the data you need to get more retweets. The tool works by allowing you to compare your current behaviors (the small graphs in the text) with the behaviors that are correlated with your account getting more retweets. Here’s how you can use this new, free tool to analyze and improve your own Twitter presence.
How to Use RetweetLab to Analyze Your Twitter Marketing
Let’s start with something we’re all familiar with — the Twitter hashtag. Ever wonder how important it is to spreading your Twitter content? RetweetLab can help you understand that.
The graph above details the effect of hashtags on retweets for my account, @DanZarrella. You’ll notice that the vast majority (93.4%) of my tweets do not contain a hashtag; but those tweets thatdo contain a hashtag tend to get more retweets. I may want to think about experimenting with more hashtags in light of this data, right?
Time of day, especially in the cluttered Twitter stream, can have a huge impact on your effectiveness, too. Take a look at what the hour of day breakdown shows us, this time from an example using the @HubSpot account:
We see that our account sends the most tweets at 2 p.m., but that tweets at that time seem to get fewer retweets than the rest of the day. Based on this, maybe we should experiment with more tweets in the morning, rather than afternoon — as you can see, around 8 a.m. we do quite well with retweets, and even much later in the night, around 10 p.m. Continuar leyendo «HubSpot Launches Free Tool to Analyze the Shareability of Your Tweets – by Dan Zarrella vía @hubspot»
Gabriel Catalano® 