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The ESC Journals Study randomized 695 papers published in the ESC Journal Family (March 2018\u2013May 2019) for promotion on Twitter or to a control arm (with no active tweeting from ESC channels) and aimed to assess whether Twitter promotion was associated with an increase in citation rates (primary endpoint) and of the Altmetric Score. This is the final analysis including 694 articles (one paper excluded due to retraction). After a median follow-up of 994 days (interquartile range: 936\u20131063 days), Twitter promotion of articles was associated with a 1.12 (95% confidence interval: 1.08\u20131.15) higher rate of citations, and this effect was independent of the type of article. Altmetric Attention Score and number of users tweeting were positive predictors for the number of citations. 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