In my last social media blog, I stated I believe it is best not to follow everyone who follows you on twitter. I also stated there was a legitimate argument in regards to the reach on your tweets.

The more followers you have, the more chance off someone following you re-tweeting your message to there followers. This is logical but there is a factor that does count against you.

You have to consider “the amount of people the person receiving your tweet is following”. There are people on twitter who consistently post many tweets within seconds of each other, nothing wrong with them doing this really but it does create the strong possibility of your tweet being lost from sight.

Not everyone on Twitter does follow a large amount of people but many do. If someone is following 1000 people, then there is another 999 people tweeting on a regularly basis to your followers Twitter feed.

You also have to consider the simple fact that someone following you isn’t going be monitoring there twitter feed 24/7 and will only pop into Twitter a few times each day. This then provides a limited window for your tweet to be seen by someone following you, as the more people there following, the more chance you’re tweet will slip of there feed before they can see it.

How do you combat that?

Well you can’t exactly ask your followers to stop following other people or limit the amount of people there following.

There is one thing you can do and that is post a tweet you consider to be important enough more than once. I have noticed that Twitter prevents you from posting the same tweet more than once and rightfully so. You would have to change the tweet in a small way before you are able to post it again but think there is a time limit on Twitter preventing you reposting same tweet, not entirely sure what that would be.

Doing this will create a problem for you, if you post the same tweet with the same information more than once. Then you could become less appealing to follow, people are more than likely not interested in viewing repeated information and could lead them to stop following you.

I think the better option is to repost the same tweet but you have to be wise with how you do this. Personally I plan to post a new blog tweet around 11am for me, and then repost the same tweet just before I go to sleep. This then means the same tweet is only posted twice and around 12 hour gap between the two tweets.

In conclusion, reposting the same tweet more than once is a valuable option and creates more chance of your tweet being seen, but does create the risk of possible becoming less appealing to some of your followers who don’t wish to see a repeated tweet.