How to use Twitter polls for massive engagement plus 4 examples to try

Twitter polls are a great way to engage your audience and find out what they think!

If you’re a brand, content creator, entrepreneur or marketer and want to know what’s going on in your audience’s mind, Twitter polls are the perfect way to find out.

In this article, we look at how you can use Twitter polls to drive engagement and gain intel on your audience, plus 4 different ways you can use your polls.

What is a Twitter poll?

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A Twitter poll allows you to ask your audience a question to find out what they think, want, or are doing. You can offer up to four different answers for your Twitter poll or as little as two for more straightforward questions.

Twitter polls are a really powerful tool because they are easy to use and everyone loves to share their opinion (especially on Twitter!). Polls also mean that all you have to do to engage your audience, understand them and collect vital feedback, is ask. Couldn’t get easier than that!

How to make a Twitter poll

Running a Twitter poll is as easy as sending out an ordinary tweet, with just a few extra steps added, and all the insight you’ll get is more than worth the extra minute it’ll take you to get your poll out!

Follow the steps below and you’ll have your first Twitter poll live in no time.

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To start your poll, click on “Tweet” like you would to write every other tweet.

You can create Twitter polls from your mobile device or on Twitter’s web app.

Tweetdeck also supports Twitter polls. You can also schedule Twitter polls using Hypefury‘s Twitter poll feature or a different scheduler.

Turn your tweet into a Twitter poll

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