For once, I agree with Hydra. I only look at one guy's twitter feed, when I go to his website, and he doesn't post that much. Why waste your time "micro-blogging" when you have a popular blog already? I guess it's the fad these days so everybody feels they need to "market" on there, but you know the last site that fit that description? Myspace. :)
It me a long time to figure out Twitter, but now I use it daily for three reasons:
1. To drive traffic to my blog. Most CD blog posts are sent out as tweets on Twitter. Daily visits to CD have gone up significantly in recent months, reaching all-time record monthly highs since I started using Twitter about 6 months ago.
2. To post quick links to Twitter instead of having to write a blog post first.
3. To find up-to-date information, links, news, stories, data, etc. that often result in an idea and data for a blog post on CD. Spending a few minutes on Twitter to find news and ideas for blog posts is much more efficient than going to a number of different individual websites or blogs.
Blogs and Twitter are natural complements, and as a blogger, I have found Twitter to be immensely helpful and beneficial.
"Spending a few minutes on Twitter to find news and ideas for blog posts is much more efficient than going to a number of different individual websites or blogs."
That's what RSS feeds are for, and the software is usually free.
I have a Twitter account that I seldom use. I have found occasional ideas for posts for my own website, but not enough to make it worthwhile on a time-cost/performance basis.
And from experience, I can say that any benefits received from Twitter certainly take more than "a few minutes".
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I don't do twitter. Too much info I don't need.
ReplyDeleteThose that distill the twitter trends are a lot more interesting.
For once, I agree with Hydra. I only look at one guy's twitter feed, when I go to his website, and he doesn't post that much. Why waste your time "micro-blogging" when you have a popular blog already? I guess it's the fad these days so everybody feels they need to "market" on there, but you know the last site that fit that description? Myspace. :)
ReplyDeleteIt me a long time to figure out Twitter, but now I use it daily for three reasons:
ReplyDelete1. To drive traffic to my blog. Most CD blog posts are sent out as tweets on Twitter. Daily visits to CD have gone up significantly in recent months, reaching all-time record monthly highs since I started using Twitter about 6 months ago.
2. To post quick links to Twitter instead of having to write a blog post first.
3. To find up-to-date information, links, news, stories, data, etc. that often result in an idea and data for a blog post on CD. Spending a few minutes on Twitter to find news and ideas for blog posts is much more efficient than going to a number of different individual websites or blogs.
Blogs and Twitter are natural complements, and as a blogger, I have found Twitter to be immensely helpful and beneficial.
"Spending a few minutes on Twitter to find news and ideas for blog posts is much more efficient than going to a number of different individual websites or blogs."
ReplyDeleteThat's what RSS feeds are for, and the software is usually free.
I have a Twitter account that I seldom use. I have found occasional ideas for posts for my own website, but not enough to make it worthwhile on a time-cost/performance basis.
And from experience, I can say that any benefits received from Twitter certainly take more than "a few minutes".
At HitsLikeYou, you get Free Facebook Likes, increase Google +1 fans and followers, increase Twitter followers, increase Youtube views and increase website traffic with HitsLikeYou.
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