Being confident and loud is the best way to win an argument – even if you are wrong according to a new study and it is the best way to get more Twitter followers.
Researchers from Washington State University who studied the activity of Twitter users realized the more opinionated they were, the more influential and trustworthy they were perceived to be and the more Twitter followers they gained!
After studying more than a billion tweets posted during various American sporting events, including the 2013 Super Bowl, to ascertain whether being accurate or being confident made Twitter users more popular they decided that being confident and loud is the way to go. Tweet that!
Tweeters who ‘yelled’ louder were seen as more trustworthy and had more followers
