Here's The Optimal Length For A Tweet If You ... - Business Insider

It's not obvious that the length of a tweet on Twitter might affect the number of people who engage with it. After all, tweets are all roughly the same length: Fewer than 140 characters.

But advertisers who use Twitter to reach their consumer fans -- especially those who are paying for promoted tweets -- need every degree of leverage they can get. Social media marketing and analytics company Track Social decided to measure whether tweet length affected the likelihood of getting a retweet from others on Twitter. The company found that the sweet spot for tweet length is 71-100 characters:

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Bonus points: If you noticed that the headline on this article -- which tweets automatically from BI's accounts -- was written to hit the retweet sweet spot. It's 76 characters long.

You can read more of Track Social's tweet length analysis here.

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-optimal-length-for-a-tweet-if-you-want-that-tweet-to-be-retweeted-2012-11

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