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This is great stuff. (Would be greater still if I’d found one of my own posts here though) š In all seriousness, this is something I will definitely consider when planning my blog posts.
Thanks for this useful article.
Hey Anne,
Glad you liked the post, and you’re very welcome!
Yeah i’m agree with your analysis that average highest tweeted posts have 1000+ words. I tested it myself on the post http://www.honeytechblog.com/top-50-twitter-tracking-and-analytics-tools/, where i get 1400+ Re Tweets.
I’ll recommend your post / analysis to include lengthy and descriptive posts.
Thanks.
Another good example, Honey.
Although I think in that case, the focus on Twitter was probably a reason for such popularity. Still, great job and nice piece!
Thanks for your comment š
Longer posts which contain usable information are extremely valuable. Some of the best posts on my site are over 1,000 words long.
I completely agree. It’s just nice for me to have some ‘real’ data. I see far too many people spouting what they think works rather than looking at what actually does.
Great to see you over here, Michael!
Very interesting facts my friend! Good job breaking it down into easy to understand and relate-able bites for the everyday blogger.
The commonality in every single one of your examples is that is poses a question that needs to be answered. Even the headline “Michael Jackson Rushed to the Hospital” which sounds like a statement and not a fact, asks… what happened to Micheal? Is he o.k.?, what hospital was he brought to?
And, of course, your headline (What You Can Learn From The Most Tweeted Blog Posts Ever) also poses questions that just must be answered! What are the posts? Who posted them? What did the posts state? How can I use this info in my posts? What can I learn from these posts?
Great stuff!
Hi David,
There’s definitely the sense of “I need to know more” after a few of those titles, as if they are missing the crucial answer which I am sure draws people in.
Well spotted, I hadn’t thought of it in that way (which is why I love this community).
Thanks for stopping by, buddy.
Definitely shows that there are a lot of ways to get retweets! I am very surprised that the average article length was over 1,000 words.
Hey Tom,
Yep, contrary to what a lot of ‘experts’ put out there, it does seem like long content is working well.
I’ve found the most effective way of getting tweets (for me at least) is to do a list post… the more points the better. It’s all about posting things that go viral (as you well know, judging by your blog name and your other posts!), and I’ve found list posts do well. The higher the number of list objects, the more tweets it gets, which is what I’ve found.
However, surely blogs get to a point where it doesn’t matter *too much* what they post, as they’ll always get tweets. Take problogger for instance, I visited one of his articles a while back literally 2 minutes after it ws posted, and it already had a couple of hundred of retweets (probably through things like twitterfeed)
For a small blog I’m not sure how practical it is to do a post about a new product, for example. Why? Because the big blogs will post about it around the same time, and all the attention will go to them as they have more followers, more authority and, more importantly, more people interested in what they have to say. I mean, if I posted about a new Twitter feature on my medium sized blog, and then Mashable posted about it… who’s gonna get more tweets?!
Hey Simon,
Interesting that you’ve found that to be the case. I know that list titles can be enticing, of course, but I have seen quite a few still fall flat on Twitter, even when they get a lot of attention.
I agree that bigger blogs get more tweets easier, but remember I picked their most tweeted posts. These are articles that stand out from their posts which usually get a few hundred tweets and I’ve looked at why.
Do you think Mashable and TechCrunch were the only sites posting about startup / web news when they started out? Of course not, they had competition which could not compete with their news over time.
I believe anyone else can do the same.
– Glen
Great post Glen. Some really helpful stuff!
Several months ago I’ve found an interesting analysis made by Sysomos. It can be found here: http://sysomos.com/insidetwitter/ the title is “An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World”. Really good stuff. You should check it out if you haven’t already š
Awesome link, thanks for sharing.
It is a little dated, but fascinating nontheless.
– Glen
You make some great points here, I think you break the headlines down very well. Thanks so much for doing all of that manual research, they are very interesting results.
That’s are really interesting perspective on what’s working. I, personally like reading posts that are shorter and only have a few exceptions, this being one, to that rule. I have usually written my posts to the length I would want to see.
Hmmm… I may have to rethink the length of my posts or better yet maybe I should ask my readers what they’d like to see in a poll.
Thanks Glen
Just a thought, but maybe the common denominator was that each of the above blogs is insanely popular… I may have said this before on here, but my advice to get lots of tweets? Have thousands of readers.
I’m addign this as a corollary to the above post, I assume these posts were also the most tweeted on the site.
Hi Eric,
I actually answered that above. Yes, these sites do get hundreds of tweets per post generally (no matter what it is) but the post I highlighted here were even exceptional for these sites, getting thousands of tweets.
Excellent post. I am just about to start blogging (for ‘the latter’) and will refer to this guide regularly.
My word that was interesting, Glen. And useful. I hope this post breaks all your records. Many thanks. P. š
We’ll see. It would be funny if it broke my retweet record (around 200) š
Thanks for the comment, Paul!
Glen, thanks for this. I agree with Eric C. I will be writing an article on Blogging advice and how useful it really is an upcoming issue. At the moment I’m just having some fun and experimenting with my blog -finding out what works and what doesn’t work through trial and error.
Hi Glen.
Cool presentation of the material. I like how the items come out looking in your table there. The logos fit in very well.
Your analysis is appreciated, because while anyone might be able to do it, the actual implementation of it is not so common.
Nice to see where some big retweetage occurred.
It took me a while that you need to write for people not just for google. I have found that for my industry 1000 words is just about right.. and if im on a hot topic i can go even longer. yes it takes longer to write 1k words vs 300 words but if you get 5x the benefit well then it really works out. also you can see in the title that most of the posts “promise” to deliver something…
PS. Your chart uber sucks. It makes no sense. You should really label the axis if you would like us to get anything out of it.
I love you david.
If you don’t understand the graph, there’s not much more I can do. It was a simple addition to the post, but hey..some people are picky š
Y axis = word count
x axis = each individual blog post
“Iām personally quite surprised to see that the average length of content that Twitter users seem to like is over 1,000 words.” – This was very interesting Glen. Especially considering I’ve heard on the web that readers like brevity and they tend to skim a lot.
As for stats-related posts – it might be interesting to see you break down the average word length of popular posts by category…for instance, personal development, finance, technology, etc. This way we can see the benchmarks for different industries/categories. Just a thought. PS. I understood your graph, although thanks for clearing it up in the replies š
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Over the last year I have been working on the assumption that internet readers like only short articles. Your excelent article shows exactly the opposite and that is a big surprise. Many thanks for sharing!
Sergio Acosta, what I would say is big article or short article both work on internet if you have provided what people like. The main question is if short articles work then why to write long article?
Depending on the subject an article may be short or long if any article needs explanation and you are just writing sub heading then it may not be understandable to general public so you also have to think from visitors point of view, all visitors have not equal power of understanding.