Spruce
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Simple way to make tweets stand out with stunning images
Tom Nguyen
Spruce — Simple way to make tweets stand out with stunning images
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Ryan Hoover
Engagement (favorites, RT's, replies) went up ~80% after adding screenshots of the products we tweet about via @ProductHunt. @BelleBCooper has a thorough article on this in How Twitter’s Expanded Images Increase Clicks, Retweets and Favorites. I wish Tweetdeck had a built-in feature like this. Also check out @davewiner's Little Card Editor.
Andrew Lin
@rrhoover @BelleBCooper Definitely noticed this as well, in a stream of text, the images draw my attention because it is different and usually a larger section of the stream. See people also using carriage returns to increase the amt of space their tweets take up.
Scott McLeod
@rrhoover Thanks for including some more details and facts Ryan - Part of understanding the value of this product is understanding the value of images!
Jack Dweck
@rrhoover curious — do you automate this process? I sometimes notice screenshots that were taken prematurely (webpage still loading, etc..).
David Spinks
I use canva to do this but I like the focus/simplicity of this app. Will share it around.
Scott McLeod
@DavidSpinks Thanks David - Two of our goals were to be quick and simple.
Dan Leveille
Really love how you can just search for properly licensed images, and it automatically provide attribution back to the artist.
Scott McLeod
@danlev Yes we've tried to leverage Flickr API to make things more simple. Attribution isnt perfect yet but want to make credit is given when credit is due.
Lauren Rotman
Statistics definitely show that sharing images creates more engagements. We have them broken down here https://shareasimage.com/stats
Miles Matthias
If this had an API, I'd add it to my tweets. Any plans for an API?
Bram Kanstein (@bramk)
@miles_matthias yeah integrate with buffer! <3
Feifan Wang
@miles_matthias no immediate plan, but definitely a great idea! Integrating with buffer, on the other hand, would be awesome. Will keep in mind :)
Helen Crozier
love this... thanks for making it so much easier/quicker to be original.
Vaibhav Mallya
This is a really interesting engagement hack! Two questions: > How would this work for consumers using other clients (TweetDeck et al)? Is the image experience on the others the same? > Do you expect tweeting with Spruce to have any potential accessibility implications?
Scott McLeod
@mallyvai Thanks for the questions Vaibhav - > How would this work for consumers using other clients (TweetDeck et al)? Is the image experience on the others the same? ---Image behavior should be followed on 3rd party Twitter clients. > Do you expect tweeting with Spruce to have any potential accessibility implications? --We have single page URL's for every image, with a few minor updates we could provide the necessary tags to assist with Accessibility.
andrew
Didnt realize tweets with images get 150% more retweets! +1 just for that stat
Tori Bunte
Anticipating lots of #blessed quote images once mainstream Twitter discovers this. They should look into pulling images from Pexels+the like.
Feifan Wang
@stttories Pexels look really interesting, thanks for the suggestion! There are also a number of other sources we are looking into.
Brenna L
This is awesome! Love that we can upload our own photos :) Can't wait to see how it changes engagement rates. Cheers!
Feifan Wang
hey guys, we just released a bare-bone mobile version of Spruce. try it out on your phone!
Jason Nunnelley
It's a @joelcomm cloning app :)
Kevin Ko
Nice, works pretty smoothly. http://www.usechisel.com/ Is similar but with more customization and images, which is pretty neat since I'm not creative enough to find my own photos usually
Evan Varsamis
great concept but you should definitely include more photos
Scott McLeod
@evanvar Thanks for the suggestion Evan - We've looked into incorporating higher quality stock photos we manually curate to really up the quality and quantity. Currently, we are leveraging Flickr API
Patrick Finnegan
I like it!