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Strategies for Increasing Twitter Engagement

There are a few different metrics that companies can keep track of when it comes to Twitter, such as the number of impressions, engagement, and more. The impressions metric is the number of times that people have seen the Tweet from a business, while the engagement is the number of people that engaged with it, which can range from liking and retweeting, to replying or even opening the link to see more. Companies can see the performance of the tweets they’ve published inside the Twitter Analytics Dashboard to keep track of the various metrics available on the platform. However, to improve those metrics, and especially the engagement, companies can rely on a couple of tried and true strategies.

Content

Companies should be figuring out different ways to show the target audience various targeted messages and valuable content. That means companies have to invest in creating different types of valuable content including photos and images, videos, articles, and blog posts that the target audience and more people will find valuable so that the company can start expanding its audience on the platform as well as generate more engagement. Companies can increase their overall engagement on Twitter by relying on this strategy and including it in their overall content marketing and branding campaigns. It can also be used to improve the company’s overall promotional messages and the way that they are presented. Additionally, each piece of content should be optimized so that it appears better when the company finally distributes that content on the platform.

Schedule

Another great way that companies can start generating more engagement on Twitter is by creating a schedule for sharing content on the platform, as well as engaging with other users, and sticking to that schedule over a long period of time. These days, the whole internet, which includes social media platforms, is overflowing with data and information which makes it a bit difficult for companies to figure out what they should be doing, or even how they should be implementing various strategies. Fortunately, despite how crowded with content the internet might be, companies are still able to reach their audiences by sticking to a schedule when it comes to sharing content on Twitter, as well as any other social media platforms.

Put simply, when a company starts sharing content at specific times of day, those tweets and that content are going to be a lot more likely to be seen, which means the company will end up generating a lot more engagement. Although the best possible times for companies to reach their audiences tend to differ by platform and by industry or market, most companies across the board agree that they generate the most engagement when sharing content on Twitter early in the morning or late at night. Companies that want to get the best possible results can rely on the Twitter Analytics dashboard to figure out when their followers are most active and engaged on the platform and start sharing their content during those times of day to ensure they’ll be reaching the audience and generating more engagement.

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There are a few different metrics that companies can keep track of when it comes to Twitter, such as the number of impressions, engagement, and more. The impressions metric is the number of times that people have seen the Tweet from a business, while the engagement is the number of people that engaged with it, which can range from liking and retweeting, to replying or even opening the link to see more. Companies can see the performance of the tweets they’ve published inside the Twitter Analytics Dashboard to keep track of the various metrics available on the platform. However, to improve those metrics, and especially the engagement, companies can rely on a couple of tried and true strategies. Content Companies…