by B.J. Tolentino

Created on: May 16, 2010   Last Updated: May 18, 2010

With growing a quality follower base, getting retweeted on a regular basis is one of the top goals in Twitter. Getting constantly retweeted could only mean that you’ve attained a certain level of importance for tweeps to value and share your tweets with their followers. While you might not be a Justin Bieber or a Barack Obama in Twitter, you can certainly make your tweets and “your self” retweetable enough. Here are the top 10 ways to get retweeted.

Optimize your tweets
Learn how to SEO tweets. With all the search tools and “bots” - search engines - crawling around Twitter, making your tweets “keyword intensive enough,” gets it more visible and therefore highly "retweetable." With the flood of tweets and people tracking points of interests through keywords and keyword phrases, tweet optimization is certainly a necessity.

Share new and relevant information
You maybe a writer or just anybody looking for all types of information to share to your followers but the key is always to tweet relevant information to get your tweets retweeted. One good avenue to look for information is in social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Twitter optimized news outlets like Time.com.

Tweet about Twitter and social media
If you clicked through this article then you’re one of the many tweeps trying to improve their “Twitter presence”. Anything about Twitter and social media is “hot topic” in Twitter. But of course not as hot as Justin Beiber; which brings us to the next point… 

RT the Twitter "gods
Twitter is often times a race to be the first lucky ones to RT the Twitter “gods”. If you’re one of the top retweeters of Justin Bieber then your importance and “retweetability” in the community of “Bieber followers” rises up. But of course, if you don’t like Justin Bieber, you can always RT the funny Conan O’brien – Bieber's "arch-nemesis" - and rise up in the ladder of “Bieber haters”.      

Tweet and RT Breaking events
Being relevant in Twitter also means being one of the first ones to tweet and RT breaking events. It could be horrific events like devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile or the eruption of an Icelandic volcano. Relevancy also means being active through succeeding “calls for actions” - fund raising and volunteering. These tweets are highly retweetable and will immensely

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