Tuesday, April 27th 2010
The Power of a Retweet
Last week amongst the news of volcanic ash clouds bringing the country to a standstill I decided to join in with some of the fun on Twitter.
So for a joke I ‘Photoshop-ed’ a quick picture:
…with the line Ash starting to appear over Leeds
It was retweeted a few times. A retweet is when a Twitter user ‘re-broadcasts’ your message to their followers – thus broadening the audience.
In a few minutes the image had been viewed over 100 times.
Then it was retweeted by Suzi Perry from Channel Five’s Gadget Show. Suzi has over 40,000 followers – suddenly my image is being viewed (and retweeted) by thousands.
Then Paul Daniels retweeted Suzi’s retweet to his 25,000 followers. By the end of the day the image had been viewed nearly 10,000 times.
At the latest count we’re on over 14,000 views!
Posted by Richard on Tuesday 27th of April 2010 at 12:11pm
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