5 Brands’ Steal-Worthy Strategies for Recycling Social Posts

Doing something just because other people are doing it can get you in trouble.(Especially when it comes to your fashion choices.)

Sometimes, though, you’ve gotta stop and consider why they’re doing what they’re doing. When you understand their reasons, it might turn out that their strategy makes a lot of sense!When it comes to social media marketing, one strategy that gets more and more popular with time is repeating your content - and with good reason.The majority of marketers plan their social media content at least a day in advance, and 25% of them plan it a month or more ahead of time with specialty social media automation tools. When you’re planning ahead and putting so much time and energy into creating killer updates, it only makes sense to share them more than once and increase the value of each one - which is why major brand names are doing exactly that.(Why don’t most people notice? We’ll explain in a sec.)If the thought of posting the same update multiple times feels too much like scribbling a cheat sheet on the palm of your hand before a big test, this post is for you - let’s take a closer look at just a few of the brands on social who are doing it, and why!

Reaching (and testing with) different audiences

When you publish a new blog post, its traffic tends to drop really, really quickly - and that makes promoting it more than once pretty important.Just look at how Darren Rowse from ProBlogger promotes a new post:

Same image, same text, same link - this is the same exact tweet sent six times over the course of six days.Notice anything?There’s engagement on every one of these, because every time it gets posted, it gets seen by different people - people who missed it the other times, and might never have seen it at all if he hadn’t shared it more than once.Fewer than half of all Twitter users check the site even just once per day, so posting the same update once per day isn’t too unusual. In this case, it might even provide some valuable insights as to the best times to post - by sharing a tweet at different times on different days, you can look for trends in your impressions and engagements.You might be surprised by the times that end up being most popular - here’s an example.Take a look at Social Media Examiner’s Twitter account, same post, different days:

Your eyes aren’t playing tricks - for more than a day, they posted the same promo copy with the same image and the same link over and over, and nothing else.On paper, that might sound a little too broken record-y, but when you take a closer look at how they did it and what the results were, it makes a LOT of sense.By spacing out their updates, they were able to hit a wide range of followers - and it paid off.Social Media Examiner promoted the same post five times over the course of a day and a half, but those promos were all shared several hours apart - including at times you might not expect many users to be online.For example, one of these tweets was published at 6:05 AM Eastern - and it got the most retweets out of all five. Another was posted at 2:05 AM - it got the second-highest number of retweets.Experiment with your audience by posting the same thing at drastically different times, including times when you don’t necessarily expect it to succeed. You might learn that thanks to time zone differences (and caffeine, probably), your updates have a lot of potential around the clock!

Making the most of your evergreen content

Sitting on a goldmine of evergreen blog posts that aren’t getting the traffic they deserve?Sharing those posts again and again - like BuzzFeed does - makes sure they don’t go to waste.(Side note: here are some tipson coming up with more ideas for evergreen posts.)BuzzFeed is a perfect example of the value of repeating updates, because they don’t necessarily NEED to.After all, they publish somewhere in the vicinity of 10 gazillion posts per day. They’re not exactly hurting for content to share, and if they wanted, they could do the bare minimum by promoting each thing once and moving on.But instead, they do this:

When BuzzFeed has evergreen posts - or even evergreen-ish ones - they share them on social more than once. In the cases above, they shared the same updates again three days after sharing them the first time, and they performed almost exactly the same.With just a few clicks, BuzzFeed made each of those posts double in value. (Wouldn’t you like to do the same with YOUR content? Heck, that's why we built a tool that automatically re-shares your updates for you!)Whether you’re sharing something again just a few days later, a few weeks later, or a few months later, it can make a big difference!

Getting the word out

Evergreen posts are useful, but not everything you write has to have a shelf life of forever. Even updates promoting timely news benefit from being repeated.Take a look at The New York Times:

The Times makes its name as a resource for timely news - but a piece of news stays relevant for more than a few minutes. Their Twitter profile frequently repeats itself, so that their latest articles get as much attention as possible while they’re timely!Even entertainment sites like MTV News do the same:

Are any of those tweets going to be relevant forever? Absolutely not - but while they are, they’re worth being shared multiple times, and racking up dozens (or hundreds) of interactions each time!

Who else have you noticed doing it?

It’s easy to not notice when someone shares the same update over and over - even if they’re a huge brand!Have you jumped on board with this strategy yourself? Have you noticed that it’s becoming more popular? Let us know what you think in the comments below!

What Twitter/X policy says about duplicate content:

Twitter/X says that while copypasta or duplicative posts on their own do not result in post removals or account suspensions, they are subject to review and enforcement under our platform manipulation and spam policy and any other X Rules violations.That said, a good strategy is to use variations!Edgar introduced variations so users can quickly create multiple variations of tweets for their content. All you need to do is click the "Add Variation" Button

You can add as many variations as you’d like so you can keep sharing that specific piece of content on Twitter and you can keep your posts fresh on Facebook and LinkedIn.Once you’ve hit “Save to Library,” Edgar will save all your different variations into your library.Because of Twitter’s TOS, variations for Twitter accounts will automatically expire after they have posted so you don’t have to worry about any variations violating Twitter’s terms of service!Edgar will also save all of your variations in one batch and he won't pull from the same batch twice in a row so you don't need to worry about posting the same content over and over. Just be sure you have other content scheduled in that library!Now you know how to easily create variations, you might be wondering, how can I vary my content?It's actually quite easy to create variations! There's no need to complicate it!Here are a few ideas:

• Rephrase what you say.

For example, you could turn "Our latest blog has just been posted!" into "Our newest blog has just been posted!" It's a small change but enough to keep you in line with Twitter's TOS.

• Change your media

Add different GIFs, videos, or images to your content for an easy variation.

• Pull different quotes or stats

Do you have a few juicy one-liners or stats in your blog? Use each of them for a different variation. That way your content stays direct, and to the point and you have multiple variations.Check out this post for even more ideas on easy ways to create variations in your Tweets.

How do you vary your content?

If you have examples of how you create different variations on your blogs or articles, let us know in the comments, below.