Trading Diggs for Retweets?

For quite some time, marketers and content producers have been seeking more diggs. While some still seek these (and others are less enthusiastic about Digg due to recent changes), we're seeing a lot of people looking for "retweeting" of their content on Twitter.

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Could some of the tips often used to get more Digg love also be applied to Twitter? I have noticed one similarity. Diggers have always loved to digg stories about Digg. Likewise, Twitterers love to retweet stories about Twitter. Something to think about. Luckily there are still so many questions about how to use Twitter (in general, let alone for marketing purposes) that content producers have an unlimited supply of potential article/blog post (or even tweet) topics.

Another thing that can probably survive the translation from Digg to Twitter is the Telegraph strategy. Many people do this. I call it that because Hitwise studied Telegraph which has been a very popular site on Digg. Telegraph encourages users to Digg their content. Encouraging the Tweeting of your content will likely help your cause. Once your content is Tweeted, if it's good enough, it will get retweets.

Although it's always nice to have other people tweet links to your content and have other people retweet those tweets (sometimes I feel like I'm not even writing in the English language anymore), having your own followers is a good way to gain more tweets and retweets too.

Rich Brooks has a Finding Twitterers with similar interests and in similar niches to communicate with can also be a good way to get some extra retweets. You'd be more inclined to share something you were interested from someone else right? Chances are others feel the same way. Our own ways to use Twitter search. There are ways Large brands and small ones are finding new and unique ways of utilizing the communication tool that is Twitter to attract traffic, conversions, customers, and loyalty.

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