Since the introduction of the Twitter reply feature in April 2015, bumping your own tweets has become possible.

To do so, you simply go to the tweet you want to “bump”, hit the reply button, and then delete your own username from the reply. You can then tweet whatever you want, but it will come up as a reply to the original tweet and both tweets will appear in your followers timeline again, no matter when the original tweet was sent.

Due to the fleeting nature of Twitter, this is a great feature for both brands and individuals, and allows you to build up engagements on a single tweet rather than posting the same tweet several times in a row to try reach as many people as possible.

However, unlike in forum threads, it is generally considered bad practice to simply reply saying “bump”. Twitter users want to know why you’re putting this in their timeline again, so it’s usually best to explain this in your follow-up tweet or else at least make it a bit witty.

The laziest way to do so would be to reply saying something like “Never forget”, or being honest by saying “I can’t believe this hasn’t gotten more favourites what is wrong with all of you?” Both of those options have proved somewhat successful for me.

This is a good example of how I bumped a tweet that was already doing relatively well. As you can see, rather than simply stating “bump”, I continued the conversation. The bump tweet only got 1 fave, which is normal, but it gained another 10 faves and 3 retweets for my original tweet.

Here’s another example of when I successfully bumped a tweet. When I tweeted the original photo, it was a Bank Holiday Monday evening and it didn’t get too much engagement. However, I bumped the tweet at 11.30am on a Tuesday after a 4 day weekend, and gained 4 RT’s and 30 favourites.