Use This Simple Trick and Watch Twitter Shares Skyrocket

Twitter gets some flak these days, but it's still one of the top social media platforms.

In certain niches and industries, this is especially true.

And when someone with influence tweets something, it can spread like wildfire. It might not “go viral” in a big, global sense, but it can definitely become “niche viral.”

But how can you get people to tweet your content?

There's one super-easy hack that almost always produces an uptick in tweets.

It's easy to implement, too.

I'm talking about those “Click to Tweet” CTA buttons you see sometimes next to key quotes from an article you're reading.

It might seem weird to basically ask people directly like that, but apparently, it's highly effective.

A recent post from AdEspresso gives the juicy details on this successful Twitter strategy.

Embed “Click to Tweet” CTAs Within the Post

Make it extra easy for users to share those soundbites from tip number one with those automatic Click to Tweet CTAs that can be embedded in your posts.

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Having a “Click to Tweet” CTA within the post increases the likelihood that users will share it, since it’s featured prominently in-post instead of hovering like regular social share buttons towards the peripheral of the post (though they’re still highly effective).

Some plugins will even let you preset different quotes from your post in the CTA, so when users click, it automatically shares that snippet of text from your post.

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The best Click to Tweet plugin for WordPress is the aptly and appropriately named “Click to Tweet” plugin (I know, how will you ever remember that?).

If you choose, you can place custom quotes in each CTA to have text chosen for users, making it as easy as possible for them to share your post.

And—as we all know— the easier it is, the better.