The secret behind many Twitter followers - Aftenposten

U.S. scientists have gone through half a million Twitter messages to find out how to be successful in 140 characters. If you are not a superstar, with thousands or millions of followers, this is the most important advice of Eric Gilbert from the Georgia Institute of Technology:

• not write only about yourself
• Be positive
• Be careful with # hashtags

After analyzing messages from 507 tvitrere, written over 15 months, the researcher found that there is strong correlation between the messages you publish, and how many people follow you, write forskning.no.

followers is Twitter’s value

investigation so far scientists know the first of its kind.

– For the first time we have had the opportunity to explore the relative effect social behavior, content of messages and network structure on twitter, and examine how these factors affect the number of Twitter followers, Gilbert writes in a press release from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

He says the findings could help not only individuals to gain a larger audience, but also developers to customize the digital tools better.

– The number of followers is Twitter’s most fundamental value. Yet it was known very little about how people build a large audience on Twitter, says Gilbert.

find the study.

not be too egotistical

The main finding is that people are more interested in information than the various updates about tvitreren itself. They like “informers” better than “meformers”, the researcher explains it. Typical Facebook updates about what you ate for breakfast and how good you are to exercise, thus fits poorly into the Twitter stream.

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Likewise, positive people are more popular than those who always complain. After analyzing 2800 messages containing either positive or negative emotions, they checked the respective positive and negative tvitrere gain or lose followers. And the trend shows that people are generally not interested in following the negative people who constantly writes about illness, death, unemployment and irritation. If there is too much of that kind, Subtitle those you instead.

Use square with the way

Square Marking (hashtag) of a subject for the message used to set a theme, so the message is easily searchable by others, whether discussing # eurovision, # idol # HLM (right convention) or # Aftenposten.

But the driver to use the hashtag, there is a danger that many of your followers disappear, according to Gilbert. The bigger hung tvitrerne had to hang various hashtags in their messages, the less likely it was that they got new followers, the study shows.

These are the Twitter top

According to the world’s top Twitter is however far the safest trick to secure world fame first. The five most followed tvitrerne in the world at the moment:

1 Justin Bieber (about 38.7 million followers)

2 Lady Gaga (approximately 37 million followers)

3 Katy Perry (about 36.1 million followers)

4 Barack Obama (approximately 31.1 million followers)

5 Rihanna (approximately 29.5 million followers)

Norway witnesses leaderboard that humor is also a good tool to gather followers. Besides the Prime Minister, the four consecutive tvitrerne famous comedians:

1 Jens Stoltenberg (about 98 500 followers)

2 «Harald Rex” (fictional account, Odd-Magnus Williamson behind, ca. 75,900 followers)

3 Morten Ramm (about 59 500 followers)

4 Steinar Sagen (about 54 200 followers)

5 Tore Sagen (about 49 200 followers)