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https://www.lifehacker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/09/ux46pbysfuofmasxbzyc-scaled.jpg?quality=7525601440My wife and I have about the same number of Twitter followers — 16k and 14k respectively — but her tweets consistently outperform mine. In fact, according to the SparkScore tool from the Twitter marketing service SparkToro, an average tweet from her gets three times as many retweets and 10 times as many faves.