The twitterverse, 140 characters at a time
Overview
Photos increase response
Photos make a huge difference in getting viewers to engage. Twitter’s data scientist Douglas Mason found that tweets containing photos yield a 35 percent increase in the number of retweets.
PROTIP: Rackspace suggests a “universal” image size of 1600 pixels wide by 800 pixels high with a 160-pixel “padding” of nonessential elements of your graphic or image on the left and right margins.
- The 2:1 ratio is good for Twitter, who suggest a 1024 x 512 pixel image. On Twitter’s iOS mobile app; images are cropped more significantly on the left and right borders and are displayed at a 1.75:1 ratio.
- Facebook suggests a 1200 x 630 pixel image
- Google+ seems to post images at 345 x 195 pixels
- LinkedIn posts a thumbnail sized image at 180 x 110 pixels
People most followed on Twitter
https://github.com/ducu/twitter-most-followed
publishes the top 100 most followed twitter accounts from among the
13.3K people on Hacker News and Radis ZUNIONSTORE.
See https://www.statista.com/statistics/273172/twitter-accounts-with-the-most-followers-worldwide/
Specific Tweet on AMP
Showing in a page a tweet of the most salient tidbit from that same article is good to do because of the meta associated with the tweet: retweets, likes, etc.
<amp-twitter width=486 height=657 layout="responsive"
data-tweetid="711272963031470080" data-cards="hidden">