Undoubtedly Facebook is the most powerful social network available right now but for many brands and services, having a strong presence in Twitter is equally important and for some of them, it’s even more. Twitter fans/followers are more loyal readers, they provide better conversion rate, share/tweet a lot and their tweet drives referral traffic.

So, every brand tries not only to gain followers but also to have maximum people tweet their articles & links in Twitter. And, when they have success in getting a lot of tweets for an article, they never miss to show it off through Twitter counter. Showing off tweet count for an article makes it look more attractive and attract even more shares and tweets to the article
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