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10%

10% -- retweet increase from using please retweet for Twitter retweets (2013)

2013  · HubSpot

Asking someone to 'Please ReTweet' instead of 'Please RT' increases retweets by 10 percent.

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Value
10%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2013
Entity
Twitter retweets
Geography
Global
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
HubSpot Primary Tier B
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Confidence: 28/100 Vintage: 2013 Channel: Common Crawl
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Twitter retweets: 10% retweet increase from using please retweet. Source: HubSpot (2013). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/please-retweet-boost-2013
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/please-retweet-boost-2013" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>10%</strong> -- retweet increase from using please retweet for Twitter retweets<br><small>Source: HubSpot (2013) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/please-retweet-boost-2013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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