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"   Unless you&amp;#039;re a celeb, you probably don&amp;#039;t have throngs of Twitter followers clamoring for a retweet or just some #FF love. Which is totally fine\u2014phsst, who wants millions of adoring fans affirming your every 140-character move anyway?  However, science may be able to help boost your popularity quotient on the social media site. After looking at half a million tweets for 15 months, researchers at Georgia Tech&amp;#039;s School of Interactive Computing have gotten what makes people popular on Twitter down to a science.  To hold court like a pro, you just need to do three key things: 1. Stop talking about yourself already: According to researchers, providing your followers with information, rather than your innermost feelings, will attract followers at a 30 times higher rate.  2. Cheer up: Since your followers may not know you personally, it&amp;#039;s best to stay away from super downer subjects like illnesses, death, and losing your job. Keeping things positive will attract more people to your musings.  3. Tone down those hashtags: #HashtagAbuse makes your followers want to #JustPressUnfollowSTAT. Researchers found that the higher a Twitter user&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;hashtag ratio&amp;quot; was (i.e. how often hashtags were used in their tweets), the less likely they were to attract new followers. So, #UseSparingly, mmmkay?  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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