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Tweet links like a boss

Dan Zarrella of HubSpot has got some handy data about linksharing on Twitter. This is really important if you want to maximise click throughs. In a nutshell:

  • Tweet later in the week
  • Tweet later in the day
  • Dont bombard your audience with links
  • Put the link 25% of the way through the Tweet
  • Don’t use all your 140 characters!

Here’s his infographic

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Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011

Facebook have release a list of the top 40 articles shared on their platform this year. Thes stories range from strange to heartbreaking, and in terms of content providers, CNN and the NYT come out looking quite good.

So here’s the list:

  1. Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami (New York Times)
  2. What teachers really want to tell parents (CNN)
  3. No, your zodiac sign hasn’t changed (CNN)
  4. Parents, don’t dress your girls like tramps (CNN)
  5. (video) – Father Daughter Dance Medley (Yahoo)
  6. At funeral, dog mourns the death of Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan (Yahoo)
  7. You’ll freak when you see the new Facebook (CNN)
  8. Dog in Japan stays by the side of ailing friend in the rubble (Yahoo)
  9. Giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines (Yahoo)
  10. New Zodiac Sign Dates: Ophiuchus The 13th Sign? (The Huffington Post)
  11. Parents keep child’s gender under wraps (Yahoo)
  12. How to Talk to Little Girls (The Huffington Post)
  13. Stop Coddling the Super-Rich (New York Times)
  14. Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior (Wall Street Journal)
  15. (video) – Twin Baby Boys Have A Conversation! (Yahoo)
  16. Man robs bank to get medical care in jail (Yahoo)
  17. Why You’re Not Married (The Huffington Post)
  18. A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs (New York Times)
  19. Ryan Dunn Dead: ‘Jackass’ Star Dies In Car Crash (The Huffington Post)
  20. Scientists warn California could be struck by winter ‘superstorm’ (Yahoo)
  21. Notes From a Dragon Mom (New York Times)
  22. A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not “Crazy” (The Huffington Post)
  23. Obama’s and Bush’s effects on the deficit in one graph (Washington Post)
  24. Penn State, my final loss of faith (Washington Post)
  25. Golden-Voiced Homeless Man Captivates Internet (Yahoo)
  26. The most typical face on the planet (Yahoo)
  27. Widespread destruction from Japan earthquake, tsunamis (CNN)
  28. Permissive parents: Curb your brats (CNN)
  29. A father’s day wish: Dads, wake the hell up! (CNN)
  30. (video) – Laughing Baby Loves Ripping Paper! (Yahoo)
  31. Epic Cover Letter: How To Get Hired For Your Dream Job (PICTURE) (The Huffington Post)
  32. New Zodiac sign dates: Don’t switch horoscopes yet (Washington Post)
  33. Things Babies Born in 2011 Will Never Know (Yahoo)
  34. The Psychology of Revenge: Why We Should Stop Celebrating Osama Bin Laden’s Death (The Huffington Post)
  35. (photo gallery) – ‘Where Children Sleep’ (New York Times)
  36. Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet, shifted Earth’s axis (CNN)
  37. Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies (CNN)
  38. China’s latest craze: dyeing pets to look like other wild animals (CNN)
  39. Grant Hill’s Response to Jalen Rose (New York Times)
  40. Steve Jobs’s Patents (New York Times)

Most of this I’ve already read, if not shared with friends!

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Sharing trends

Mashable recently posted a block infographic released by Clearspring based on AddThis data, but I found it hard to read as it was so big and oddly spaced. I’ve recut the graphic slightly, but the data is all there. No infringement inteded!

Here’s some sharing trends from the last five years of data collected by AddThis: