The 10 most clickable Twitter headlines

Here it is: Your guide to snagging more clicks for the links you post on Twitter.

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Being good at Twitter is more of an art than a science.

There’s no magic formula for social media success, nor hard and fast rules for how to use Twitter well.

But there are guidelines—informed by scads of data and legitimized through case studies and success stories—for writing the “best” Twitter headlines as measured by their clickability. Tests have shown you can increase your conversion rate on a link by 73 percent when you write a compelling headline.

Getting users to click on links in tweets is one of the major goals of brands that use Twitter.

Here are the 10 most clickable Twitter headlines that will engage your followers, draw traffic to your blog or website and help differentiate your Twitter account among the thousands of competitors vying for attention.

1. Top 10 lists

People love lists on Twitter just like they do those across the Internet. (Did you notice the headline of this article?)

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