2011’s most replied-to tweets

This last year I played a little game with myself, trying to post a tweet a week that I thought might possibly get more replies than the previous record.  It’s an idea that Ze Frank threw out at a talk at SXSW last year… and it stuck with me as a fun experiment in the world of engagement and Tweet-making. I tried to stay away from Twitter-specific tweets, as those are artificially inflated to be interesting… but one snuck in to the top 5 anyway.  Here they are:

  1. What do you do to help get yourself out of a bad mood? I’ll include aggregate answers in a talk I’m giving on Friday. - 41 replies - Nov 9th
  2. What percentage of tweets in your stream do you think you read? And how many people do you follow? - 37 replies - Nov 28th
  3. Quick poll: would you be willing to try a product that helped you start a morning meditation routine in a novel way? - 24 replies - Aug 8th
  4. If you want to have fun doing pushups, let me know in the next hour and I’ll add you to the very early @budge test we’re running right now. - 20 replies - Dec 15th
  5. I think I’m gonna give up alcohol for the next month or so. Is this a good idea or a bad one? And who wants to join? - 19 replies - May 20th

The fact that all but one are health-related tweets was surprising to me. I tried many different tactics for beating my previous records for number of replies.  But it’s reassuring to know that the kinds of questions that resonate most are the ones related to the kinds of problems I’m trying to solve.

Here are the rest of my most replied-to tweets, thanks to ThinkUp.

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