Brands need 7,500 Tweets to rank in the Top Five results on search engines

A new study has revealed, unsurprisingly perhaps, that lots of tweets means that brands rank higher in search engines.

Conducted using data from digital and search agency Branded3’s Twitter petition site, Twitition.com, and Google ranking data, the study analysed a sample of the site’s 1.4 million Twitter followers, 7.6 million signatures across 198,000 ‘Twititions’.

According to the company when someone signs a Twitition a tweet is sent from their account and for the purposes of the study it has been assumed that the number of signatures equals the number of tweets about a specific URL – the Twition.

Confused? So am I, but it sounds good. The study says that more than 7,500 Tweets means a Top 5 search enginge ranking while more than 10,000 Tweets almost guarantees a top ranking.

Click here if you want to find out more. I’m quite interested, but my brain hurts now.