7 tips to get more followers on Twitter

Nowadays consumers gauge a brand’s credibility by checking its Twitter handle. The more followers your brand has, the more likely it is you’ll gain peoples trust - and if consumers trust you, chances are they’ll probably open up their wallets for you. Here are 7 tips to help you gain more followers on Twitter.

1.     Choose your days and time your posts

According to social enterprise software firm Buddy Media, tweeting on weekends is more effective for brands as engagement rates are 17% higher compared with weekdays. E.g. engagement for clothing brands is highest on weekends and lowest on Thursdays. Tweets posted by entertainment brands on Sunday and Monday receive 23% more engagement. For publishers engagement is 29% higher on Saturdays. Engagement for sports brands is 52% higher on weekends.

Brands tweeting between 8am and 7pm receive 30% higher engagement than other times. (8pm to 7am for Facebook)

2.     Don’t overdo it

There’s a fine line between effective and annoying tweeting. The optimal amount of daily tweets is 22 according to Hubspot while analytics tool SumAll claims six tweets daily is ideal for business. Buddy media says four is right.

3.     Keep tweets short

Though tweets are limited to 140 characters, those containing fewer than 100 receive 17% higher engagement because leaving room in a tweet allows followers to insert their own text before your content.

4.     Ask for retweets

Tweets asking followers to “retweet” or “RT” receive 12 times more retweets than those not asking. Retweet rates are 23 times higher than average when the word “retweet” is written in full, but it’s only 10 times higher when using the acronym “RT.” Tweets containing links also receive 86% more retweets.

5.     Hashtag

Buddy Media says tweets with one or two hashtags have 21% more engagement than ones that don’t, but tweets with more than two hashtags show a 17% drop in engagement.

6.     Use software

Use the scheduling function of software tools like ConversionBuddy to publish pre-written tweets automatically.

7.     Fake it ‘til you make it

If you got some cash to spend and need followers now, why not buy them? Website socialmediadd.com provides you with 1k new followers per month for $59. In Johannesburg onlinecart.co.za sells 1k followers at R250 or 100k followers at R6 000.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out you are using internet bots if your account jumps to 100k followers overnight. Plus sites like statuspeople.com or twitteraudit.com offer apps that can test how many of your followers are real. If word spreads you are a faker, kiss your credibility goodbye. So buy followers at your own risk.

Hitting the tweet spot

Finding the right tweet spot is no walk in the park but the effort will pay off. Tweeting right could create fame and fortune for individuals, or increase revenue for businesses. Tweet wrongly and you might earn a spot in Twitters hall of shame instead. But if you combine these tips with email marketing and pay-per-click advertising, you should definitely be counting the mula in no time.  

4 REASONS WHY THE PLANET SIZED OBJECT REFUELLING BY THE SUN WAS A UFO

On March 10, 2012, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite spotted a spherical, “Jupiter” sized UFO tethered to the sun and siphoning its energy. After recharging its batteries the sphere accelerates into space while sucking in its dangling chord like a spaghetti noodle.

Two days later the footage went viral and many UFO bloggers say its aliens while others believe it is a “planet being born.” NASA says it was a naturally occurring solar prominence. Here are 4 reasons proving it was a real UFO recharging by the sun.

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1.     NOT a planet being born

The report by one website that it was a planet being born is dumb. Our solar system’s celestial bodies took billions of years to form. If planets were created like this, Earth would have collided with one of these bodies like balls on a snooker table. And a new planets gravitational net would disrupt other planets’ orbits as it tried to establish its own orbit, can you imagine the chaos?

2.     Can’t be a solar flare

Solar flares are large explosions which happen when pent up magnetic energy in the sun’s surface (corona) is suddenly released; these are the ‘tentacles’ we see bursting from the sun. It’s impossible that this was a solar flare because flares last a few minutes to an hour yet this UFO hung around for two days.

3.     Solar prominence? Lol!

NASA’s official explanation that this was a solar prominence can be dismissed with careful observation. A solar prominence is similar to a flare. The difference being prominences are loop shaped; grow larger than planets and can last several weeks.

A sun prominence constantly fluctuates in shape and size, but the UFO maintained a solid shape.

Firstly, all solar activity on the sun’s surface moves in relation to the sun’s rotation. However in this video we see that this sphere and its chord remain stationary while normal flares erupting elsewhere on the sun are moving with the sun’s spin. 

Also, prominences constantly change shape and size whereas this UFO and its tentacle don’t fluctuate in shape and length. 

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Lastly, if flares or prominences are completely ejected such as in a Coronal Mass Ejection, the plasma must travel at near light speed in order to escape the suns intense gravity.  Yet this object gradually gains speed as it accelerates away from the sun.

4.     NASA caught red handed deleting previous footage

On January 22, 2011 YouTube user BeePeeOilDisaster posted a link on his channel to NASA’s STEREO website where people could see a near sun UFO. 

By the 27^th subscribers were complaining that there was no UFO in the video.  After checking he discovered NASA had blocked out the UFOs and his URL link later became  a ‘file not found’ error message. 

Fortunately, he had already downloaded the footage and those who saw the video before it was airbrushed by NASA corroborate with his story. Apparently, this was the third time NASA tried covering up near sun UFOs he spotted on its own website. If these are truly just “natural occurrences,” why delete the footage?

  “Type 2 civilisation”

According to renowned physicist Michio Kaku this was a gigantic alien spacecraft originating from type 2 “stellar civilisations.” This type of civilisation has exhausted the power of their planet so they harvest solar flares directly from their sun to meet their civilisations energy demands. He says, “They use the power of the sun itself to energise their huge machines.”

Other bloggers speculate that this could be some massive plasma based/ gaseous life form that eats solar flares when it’s hungry.

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I believe it’s some kind of unmanned remote controlled vehicle which took the energy back to a camouflaged starship running low on fuel.

• What do you think it is?

Four asteroids narrowly miss Earth

Asteroid 2012 DA14 missed Earth by a mere 17 000 miles earlier this year, but had it struck it would have possibly killed millions of people. But DA14 is puny when compared to Asteroid 1998 QE2 which followed it several months later. If that impacted, most life on Earth would have definitely gone the way of the dinosaurs.

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Asteroid DA14

Just hours before asteroid 2012 DA14 skimmed closer to Earth than any object of its size on February 15 2013, a 7 000 ton 49 feet wide meteorite exploded over Russia  creating a vicious sonic boom that rained fireballs over Chelyabinsk while the shockwave shattered windows, damaged buildings and injured 1 200 people.  

At 50 meters across and weighing 143 000 tons, DA14 is a celestial feather weight compared to the 6 mile wide killer that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Nevertheless DA14 packs one hell of a punch for its small size, a collision would have released energy equivalent to 2.4million tons of TNT and it would have razed everything within 1, 942 square kilometres, an area roughly the size of Lesotho.

                                                              

DA14 was closer to Earth than many communication satellites which orbit 22, 300miles up, but despite its hair raising proximity the asteroid was still way too small to see with the naked eye at it nearest point over the island of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. Even when viewed with binoculars and telescopes in the best locations which were in Asia, east Europe and Australia, the rock appeared as a mere pin prick of light moving 17 times faster than a bullet.

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Asteroid 1998 QE2

1998 QE2 which missed us by 5.8 million kilometres on 31 May was so massive it even had its own 2 000 feet wide mini moon orbiting it. At 2.7km wide, QE2 was definitely a cause for alarm as scientists estimate that any asteroid bigger than 0.6miles or 1kilometer is all it would take to snuff us out. QE2 was visible from anywhere on Earth with a telescope. But if you missed it the rock will make another fly by on July 12, 2028.

The South African Astronomical Observatory posted footage of the flyby of  Asteroid 1998 QE2

Asteroid LR6

2013’s latest near miss came from Asteroid LR6 on June 8 which flew over Tasmania, Australia. Fortunately, the 10meter wide shrimp posed no threat to us.

“Close call”

Former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, chairman of the B612 Foundation which is committed to protecting Earth from deadly asteroids says “we are in a shooting gallery and this is evidence of it.”

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He added that DA14 was “such a close call that it is like a celestial torpedo across the bow of the Earth.” If a killer asteroid was incoming Schweickart says two spaceships would be launched to gradually nudge the rock until its trajectory comfortably missed Earth even if it returned. In May NASA said it wants to launch a spacecraft that can capture a small asteroid and park it next to the moon for astronauts to explore.

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