What’s Your Magical Retweet Number?

January 28th, 2010

Mine is 17.

Your magi­cal ret­weet number is the amount of cha­rac­ters you need to leave at the end of your tweet in order to get ret­wee­ted. It will be dif­fe­rent based on your Twit­ter name. Here’s how I came up with the for­mula for the magi­cal ret­weet number:

There are two main ways people attri­bute a tweet when retweeting:

• RT @username:  Message
• Mes­sage (via @username)

The longer of the two is “Mes­sage (via @username)”, so we’ll use that.

The above ret­weeet attri­bu­tion takes 8 cha­rac­ters ” (via @)” PLUS the amount of let­ters in your username.

The For­mula

8 + Cha­rac­ters in Your Twit­ter User­name = Magi­cal Ret­weet Number.

• 8 + VinTho­mas = 17
• 8 + JoshHems­ley = 19
• 8 + BoLane = 14

You get the idea…

So if you want to get ret­wee­ted, make sure you know your Magi­cal Ret­weet Number!

Tags: Communications, Retweet, Social Media, Social Networking, Tips, Twitter

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 28th, 2010 and is filed under Social Media.