Want to get more ReTweets (RT)?

I just had a quick con­ver­sa­tion with a friend about ReTweets. Not enough for a full blog post, but an idea I did­n’t want to not write about.

The concept is to leave enough room so that any­one who wants to retweet you does­n’t have to work to do it.

Here’s a simple for­mula I use:

140 - (RT @<your twitter ID>) - <colon> - <space> = Maximum Tweet Length

In my case:

140 - (RT @bgrier) - <colon> - <space> = 128
140 - 10 - 1 - 1 = 128


So if I keep my tweet under 128 char­ac­ters, any­one can retweet me without hav­ing to edit my tweet.

Easy for them and effect­ive for me.