12 reasons your requests for retweets fail

Avoid these pitfalls to persuade others to forward your Twitter posts.

Avoid these pitfalls to persuade others to forward your Twitter posts

One of the great benefits of Twitter is that it allows for content to spread rapidly and virally across the network.

If a Twitter message is compelling and interesting enough, users might republish that tweet to their followers; commonly known as retweeting.

When you ask someone to retweet your content, you are effectively asking them to endorse and share the content with their followers. It’s very much having them forward an e-mail.

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