Track Your Retweets
If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, then you will certainly want to keep track of all the times you have been retweeted on Twitter. Tracking your retweets allows you to see who is taking notice of you in the Twittersphere. There are a number of ways to do this, and to see other data about your retweets. Read these steps to find out the different ways you can do this.
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Steps
Use RetweetRank
- Go to http://www.retweetrank.com. This site allows you to see where you rank among other Twitter users in terms of how many times your tweets are retweeted.
- Enter your Twitter username into the text box. This will simply take you to a page that displays your account name, your rank, and your number of tweets and followers.
- Click the “Tweet” icon on this page to send a tweet of your RetweetRank data.
- Sign in with Twitter to view your Dashboard. Under your profile information, click the button that says “Sign in with Twitter”. Enter the appropriate information when prompted and sign in. This will take you to your “Dashboard,” which gives you more advanced information about your tweets and retweets.
- Buy a premium package to access more information. The basic free service on RetweetRank is great for casual Twitter users, but if your account has high traffic, you may want to purchase a premium account. To do this, click on the “Upgrade” or “Pro” buttons on the Dashboard page. This will take you to a page that lists four different services ranging from Basic (free) to Business (pay-per-month). You can learn more about the different information that will be available to you with each type of account by scrolling to the bottom of the page. (You can also get a 14-day free trial of any of the different services.)
Use Twitter Search
- Go to twitter; www.twitter.com.
- Type “RT @[handle you wish to track]” into the search bar at the top of the page. This will take you to a page that shows a list of all the tweets that include retweets of the desired handle.
- Next to “Tweets”, select “Top” to see the tweets with the most retweets; select “All” to see all tweets with your search terms, with the most recent listed first.
- Bookmark the page or create an RSS feed. This will allow you to easily track this page so that you can be aware every time that your tweets are retweeted by other Twitter users.
Use TweetReach
- Go to http://tweetreach.com/. This site gives you data about your most popular retweets, and shows you how many other Twitter users are reached by one of your tweets.
- Enter your Twitter username in the search box.
- Browse the data for your query. TweetReach includes a few pieces of data about your retweets. The data takes into account only the last 50 times that one of your tweets has been retweeted.
- “Reach” is the number of unique Twitter users who received tweets with a retweet of your tweet.
- “Exposure” is the total number of Twitter users who saw tweets with a retweet of your tweet. Users can be repeated in this number if they received more than one tweet that included a retweet of your tweet.
- “Activity” shows how many times your tweets were retweeted (maximum 50), the number of different Twitter users who retweeted your tweets, and the period of time over which the retweeting occurred.
- “Top contributors” shows the Twitter user who has reached the greatest number of other users with a retweet of your tweet.
- “Most Retweeted Tweets” shows tweets that include your retweet that have themselves been retweeted.
- “Contributors” shows all users who have sent tweets that include retweets of your tweets.
- “Tweets Timeline” shows a full list of tweets that include retweets of your tweets.
- If you want to spend money for more detailed information, consider purchasing a premium package to get a full report. In order to do this, click the button that says “Get the full report” near the top of the page. You can then pay the amount requested to have a full report emailed to you, or click “View Plans” to choose other, more detailed options. (These options will allow you to see data for all of your tweets, rather than the maximum of 50 that comes with the free service.)
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