How To Go Viral With Twitter - A Cool Trick

[FlightGuy]

Hey Warriors,

I just posted a video on my blog about a code you can use on virtually anything you promote to make it hit Twitter virally.

Mike Filsaime used this and had his Butterfly Marketing 2.0 product at the 15th most retweeted URL last weekend because of this tiny little code.

So basically, if you release a video, a blog post, a report, a new affiliate site, a new product or whatever, you can add this bit of code and attach it to whatever it is you're promoting. It's better than any plugins because with this, you can alter it to cater to anything you want - that means to include your Twitter user name which promotes you as people find your materials good enough to be retweeted.

Here's the code:

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status="ANYTHING YOU WANT ANYONE TO RETWEET HERE" target="_blank"><img src="your img loc" border="0" alt="seo friendly alt"></a>

There's more info in the video along with some examples. It's only 3 minutes long, so take a look (no opt in or anything required):

A Cool Viral Twitter Trick

Hope you make use of it!

Kindest,
John Dennis

[billbarrett]

Cute idea! Thanks a lot. I am going to use it!

[Nathan Hangen]

Great post...I'm using something similar to this to offer a 10 dollar discount on one of my products. I'm going to use it as a giveaway too.

[FlightGuy]

Nathan, now you're thinkin'!


For everyone else, just think of all the possibilities of this... tracking clicks, offering incentives for retweets.

Hell, I might even write up a lil program for this.

Make sure you watch the video, it visually shows whats going on and it's only 3 minutes long:

Click here to watch the video.

[Nathan Hangen]

There is a program actually, but I've been trying to be quiet about it until I see how it works for my sales page. (it's in my sig).

I'm offering a $10 discount for a Tweet of my sales page.

Here's the code:

Viral Tweet Code Generation

[bgmacaw]

Here's how to go viral with Twitter: Barack Obama's teleprompter on Twitter

[FlightGuy]

lol... without Twitter, we would have never known who Barak Obama's teleprompter is. Cool find.

[ploked]

nice trick, might give this one a try. thanks for sharing.

[Pete Egeler]

I hope you're going to keep it up for awhile. Right now it loads so slow I gave up after 20-minutes and getting only 14-seconds of vid. (I'm on dial up) On the other hand, I switched to another site where they DON'T host their own videos, and watched a 5-minute video after only 10-minutes of load time.

The idea sounds great, but I'd really like to see how you're setting it up and using it, etc.


Pete

[Patrick Judge]

Originally Posted by FlightGuy

Hey Warriors,

I just posted a video on my blog about a code you can use on virtually anything you promote to make it hit Twitter virally.

Mike Filsaime used this and had his Butterfly Marketing 2.0 product at the 15th most retweeted URL last weekend because of this tiny little code.

So basically, if you release a video, a blog post, a report, a new affiliate site, a new product or whatever, you can add this bit of code and attach it to whatever it is you're promoting. It's better than any plugins because with this, you can alter it to cater to anything you want - that means to include your Twitter user name which promotes you as people find your materials good enough to be retweeted.

Here's the code:

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status="ANYTHING YOU WANT ANYONE TO RETWEET HERE" target="_blank"><img src="your img loc" border="0" alt="seo friendly alt"></a>

There's more info in the video along with some examples. It's only 3 minutes long, so take a look (no opt in or anything required):

A Cool Viral Twitter Trick

Hope you make use of it!

Kindest,
John Dennis

Good stuff John,

I tried it and it works well

[FlightGuy]

Originally Posted by Pete Egeler

I hope you're going to keep it up for awhile. Right now it loads so slow I gave up after 20-minutes and getting only 14-seconds of vid. (I'm on dial up) On the other hand, I switched to another site where they DON'T host their own videos, and watched a 5-minute video after only 10-minutes of load time.

The idea sounds great, but I'd really like to see how you're setting it up and using it, etc.


Pete

Hey Pete,

Yeah, I suppose it's important that some of our peers are still using dial-up (where my mother lives in NC it's the best they can get - and she lives on a multi million dollar property, go figure).

If you'd like I can up this one in a smaller format (I think half the size but can still see the screen decently).

[Logan_5]

Hey, that's pretty cool. Thanks for the tip!

[ViktorB]

Really awesome trick.
Thanks for share

[mormel]

Hi,

Makes you want to do the same kind of thing on Facebook, Myspace, Hubpages etcetera. The world is only a (re)tweet away!

Yours, virally, Ed

[Pete Egeler]

John,

My problem getting the video to load up may be due to all the traffic you're getting! It looks like you're hosting the video on-site, an that may make it slower for me.

Thanks for the offer.

Pete

[ThePokerEconomist]

Thanks John Dennis!
Yeah I don't know why more of us haven't thought about it! I actually used a variation of your example on my site. Instead of linking it to an image, I just used a text hyperlink. Example of what it looks like is in my sig.

[Steve Peters Benn]

Is this the same as what Frank Kern's latest video was about?

[SteelDanno]

For you peeps running Wordpress sites ... might want to check out this WP ReTweet plugin: WordPress Plugin: Twitter ReTweet | CHROMATIC

Cheers.

[Ryan700]

Originally Posted by FlightGuy

Hey Warriors,

Here's the code:

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status="ANYTHING YOU WANT ANYONE TO RETWEET HERE" target="_blank"><img src="your img loc" border="0" alt="seo friendly alt"></a>

Kindest,
John Dennis

Thanks John,

Between this post and your video I figured it out. Had a little trouble figuring out where to put the image in my WP folder. All's good now!

[FlightGuy]

Originally Posted by Pete Egeler

John,

My problem getting the video to load up may be due to all the traffic you're getting! It looks like you're hosting the video on-site, an that may make it slower for me.

Thanks for the offer.

Pete

I didn't expect getting as much traffic as I have been lately, so from now on I'll be using S3 just because of this. I hear its reliable and relatively inexpensive. Has anyone here used it before?

[Ryan700]

Originally Posted by FlightGuy

Hey Warriors,

I just posted a video on my blog about a code you can use on virtually anything you promote to make it hit Twitter virally.

Here's the code:

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status="ANYTHING YOU WANT ANYONE TO RETWEET HERE" target="_blank"><img src="your img loc" border="0" alt="seo friendly alt"></a>

A Cool Viral Twitter Trick

Kindest,
John Dennis

I'm new at this twitter thing. What happens when they click on the little banner? Do I get a copy of the RT on my twitter page? Reason I ask is I didn't get any followers and I didn't get any indication that anyone has retweeted but I got a little jump in traffic - so I put the code on another page in my blog.

[Neil Morgan]

Neat idea - I love all things viral.

From a development point of view, there is soooooooooo much that could be done with this.

It's a pity I'm too busy!

Cheers,

Neil

UPDATE - Just added this as a text link to a busy page on my site. We'll see what happens!

[FlightGuy]

Originally Posted by Ryan700

I'm new at this twitter thing. What happens when they click on the little banner? Do I get a copy of the RT on my twitter page? Reason I ask is I didn't get any followers and I didn't get any indication that anyone has retweeted but I got a little jump in traffic - so I put the code on another page in my blog.

Hey Ryan,

If someone starts a Tweet with @YourName then you can see that in your @Replies area on your Twitter homepage. Otherwise, retweets are just a retweet. If you are seeing a bump in traffic, then I'd check your recent came from's in your tracking. If you aren't tracking your blog, start doing so immediately.

If it can be measured, it can be improved.

Neil - I know what you mean. I'm thinking along the same lines as you my friend.

Kindest,
John Dennis

[stevenh512]

Originally Posted by FlightGuy

Yeah, I suppose it's important that some of our peers are still using dial-up (where my mother lives in NC it's the best they can get - and she lives on a multi million dollar property, go figure).

You'd be surprised.. I live in California, but I live in a pretty rural area.. the cable companies won't touch this place, and the phone companies don't think it would be worth it to bring DSL here either. So it's either dialup or satellite, and I've heard from a lot of people that satellite isn't much better than dialup around here (something to do with the iron-filled mountains absorbing the signal or something, I don't know, I'm not too big on antenna/radio theory personally).

[Neil Morgan]

Hey John

Neil - I know what you mean. I'm thinking along the same lines as you my friend.

I was thinking along the lines of a free service that people could use to virally market their sites. And while they're virally marketing their sites with the service, it would be virally marketing mine.

A new IM term is born - DVM - Double Viral Marketing!

I've got no time though!

Cheers,

Neil

[shyless15]

This is great information. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[thegamecat]

I like it. I'm used to using the api to do things like this as in the link in my sig - but what do you see as the advantage?

[Empowerment Warrior]

Thanks so much for this sweet tip! I have been wondering how to do something like this.