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The Twitter-Monster is hungry. Let’s Feed It!

Posted on 31 March 2008
Tags: Blogging, Marketing, Memes, Rss Feeds, Twitter, pillar articles
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Twitter is a Monster of a Promotion Tool - Let’s Try an Experiment…

Over the past two weeks, I’ve learned a lot about maximizing twitter. Before, I didn’t know the point of Twitter, now because of Twitter, I’m getting steady traffic around 800-1000 hits per day. (Not too shabby after 15 days, being back up and live, and having roughly 30 blog posts so far.)

On top of the subscribers, the diggs, and the traffic - I’ve also met some wonderful people, found some interesting blogs, had some interesting conversations, and increased the conversation at my site. I’ve gotten a total of 88 comments on this blog, since March 17th.

March 17th was also the day my traffic began going up, up and away.

The next experiment is actually a Twitter Meme.

Goal: For each participant to receive the following:

  1. More followers on Twitter.
  2. More RSS Subscribers.

How this works:

  1. Subscriber to my Feed. Via RSS, or Via Email.
  2. Follow me on Twitter:  PatrickCurl
  3. Put a comment stating that you subscribed & Followed. In your comment - provide your RSS FEED link, and your Twitter Profile Link.
  4. Please follow / subscribe to those who have commented before you. If you like, you can come back regularly and subscribe to the new people on the list, it is highly recommended, but not mandatory.
  5. Send this link out via Twitter, and See if we can’t get 100 subscribers / followers per person listed. (Here’s the tinyurl to make it easier: http://tinyurl.com/37k65m )
  6. We would also ask that each person who joins this movement - write a quick blog post about it - and link to this post (as this is where all the subscription / follow links will be.)
  7. You can also send out the blog link that you just wrote to Twitter, as well for added exposure.

As you can see this is a great way to promote your blog - but it is also an experiment, I’m excited to see the kind of momentum we can build on Twitter.

Other things you can do is stumble this post, digg it, sphinn it, favorite on delicious, etc…

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76 Responses to “The Twitter-Monster is hungry. Let’s Feed It!”

  1. no imageNathan (Who am I?) (9 comments) Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    I’m game. Actually got to this post from your Tweet to start with.

    My Feed: http://www.structuredthought.org/?feed=rss2

    My Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AlexDeGruven

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  2. no imageFool (Who am I?) (8 comments) Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    Trying to help you out with Experiment, think I done all the steps, posted & linked here…
    http://fool.tumblr.com/post/30407920
    http://twitter.com/jlp4u3 followed
    rss.

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/Foolsville20

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  3. no imagePatrick Curl (Who am I?) (75 comments) Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    NAthan - I subscribed / and am Already following you. Please be sure to send this post out to everyone on twitter. Thx!

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  4. no imagePatrick Curl (Who am I?) (75 comments) Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    Fool - I’m following / Subscribed. Thx!

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  5. no imagejared (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    The Twitter monster huh? Glad I followed you :)

    deal - you got it!

    My Rss - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Thebloggersdesktopcom

    my twitter -
    http://www.twitter.com/jaredmlee

    I am subscribed and following. I would love to hear some follow up about the results of this post.

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  6. no imageNathan (Who am I?) (9 comments) Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    Subscribed and following you, fool.

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  7. no imagePatrick Curl (Who am I?) (75 comments) Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    You’ve got it - I will be posting a follow-up in 2 days or so, as to the success of this experiment. BTW I’ve also subscribed to your blog / made sure that I’m following you.

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  8. no imageGurkan Yeniceri (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    I am watching you mate. So behave :-)

    Twitter: http://twitter.com/gyeniceri
    Blog RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GurkanYeniceri

    Blog entry is coming tonight

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  9. no imagecomputerguru365 (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    i’ll throw in - love to see where this experiment goes.
    1)i subscribe to your RSS
    2)YOU found me on twitter, thus i found this

    My RSS - http://feeds.feedburner.com/DiyComputersAndElectronics

    follow me on twitter -
    http://www.twitter.com/computerguru365

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  10. no imagePatrick Curl (Who am I?) (75 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 1:47 am

    @Computerguru365 - followed/ subbed. Thanks for helping spread the movement!

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  11. no imageHarry Hoover (Who am I?) (3 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 8:33 am

    I’m in

    RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/my-creativeteam/delT

    Twitter: http://twitter.com/MyCreativeTeam

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  12. no imageElizabeth Rainwater (Who am I?) (2 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 10:05 am

    My feed is onlyevenprime.com/feed and my Twitter is egbert826. Patrick, you’re following me already which is how I started subscribing to you.

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  13. no imagefool (Who am I?) (8 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    Getting the rest we are spose to follow each other right?

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  14. no imagePatrick Curl (Who am I?) (75 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    Subbed to your feed. Thx.

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  15. no imagePatrick Curl (Who am I?) (75 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    Subbed to your feed, Harry. Thx!

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  16. no imageNicholas Kreidberg (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    http://twitter.com/niczak
    ^— Programmer / DBA / Entrepreneur / Father / Fun Guy

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  17. no imageGeeksofdoom (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Hi Patrick,

    Great idea!! Here’s my info…

    Twitter: http://twitter.com/geeksofdoom
    RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/geeksofdoom

    I’ll be following and subscribing to everyone above me too.

    Best,
    Dave3

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  18. no imageChris Anthony (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Sure, I’m game.

    Feed: http://www.etherjammer.com/blog/?feed=rss2
    Twitter: http://twitter.com/etherjammer

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  19. no imageRyan (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Subscribe to Online Epiphany’s feed for blogging developing web apps and widgets for affiliate marketing, CPC, and more.

    RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OnlineEpiphany
    Twitter: http://twitter.com/thenotself

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  20. no imageGfox (Who am I?) (2 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    I subscribed and have been following you for a few days.

    My micro-blog is fun and encapsulates my life and findings around the web.

    RSS: http://gfox.tumblr.com/rss
    Twitter: http://twitter.com/g_fox

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  21. no imageGfox (Who am I?) (2 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    Ok… I’m following everyone here :-)

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  22. no imageAlvin (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Okay, this sounds like fun.

    Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Semiproblogging
    Twitter: http://twitter.com/wyliemac

    By the way, I subscribed to your feed am already a subscriber to your twitter feed.

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  23. no imageChrys Wu (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    I’ll give this a shot.

    Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/cw-ricochet
    Twitter: http://twitter.com/MacDivaONA

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  24. no imageJacob Chapel (Who am I?) (2 comments) Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    Definitely a long list, but I am game.

    Here is a post I wrote about it: http://musiny.com/2008/04/02/an-experiment-im-game/

    Site Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/musiny
    Twitter: http://twitter.com/chapel

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    		2.5
  25. no imageMike Smith (Who am I?) (2 comments) Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    I signed up and will be hitting up every link above me shortly.

    RSS FEED: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BootstrappingBlog

    TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/bootstrapping

    Great idea. I’m working on fixing my hosting now, but when I do, Ill be writing about this in a showcase of how networking is great for business.

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  26. no imagemary1440 (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    I think this paid off better for you than anyone. A good idea, though. Way to go!!

    Mary

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  27. no imageDan Nolan (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    Subscribed & Followed

    Good stuff here man. I’m sorta new to the blog thing and having fun so far. The wife is enjoying it to. She gives me inspiration!

    RSS Feed:http://www.niche-marketing-professional.com/feed/
    Twitter: http://twitter.com/NicheMarket_Pro

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  28. no imageJacob Chapel (Who am I?) (2 comments) Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    Have added everyone so far. The good thing about this even though it doesn’t look like we will have the magic number of 100 is that we all get to connect with others we might not have ever got a chance to. Nice to meet you all and thanks Patrick for the push.

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  29. no imagefool (Who am I?) (8 comments) Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    Yes I agree nice to meet you all, I am the same name on pownce as well jlp4u3,dont have jaiku aeiou or what ever it is.

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  30. no imageSimone (Who am I?) (6 comments) Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 am

    Let’s try this…
    one problem could be that since RSS are from various topics the number can raise at first but then go back down again since people could be not interested in the topic of the feed.
    Anyway, let’s try and see:

    rss feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Codeclimber
    twitter: http://twitter.com/simonech

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  31. no imagePatrick Curl (Who am I?) (75 comments) Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am

    I’d like to drop everyone a line and say thanks for giving this a shot, I’m glad to have you aboard - I’ve subscribed to everyone’s feed here so far.

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  32. no imagePatrick Curl (Who am I?) (75 comments) Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 am

    I’m glad you and your wife like it, I’ll try to keep it entertaining for ya!

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  33. no imagePatrick Curl (Who am I?) (75 comments) Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 am

    Mary - it definitely has been exciting for me, but I’m hoping the people on the list also get some good traffic / subscribers from it as well.

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  34. no imageEvan Travers (Who am I?) (2 comments) Says:
    April 7th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    http://www.twitter.com/evantravers

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  35. no imageVsRobot (Who am I?) (1 comments) Says:
    April 7th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/vsrobot
    Feed: http://vsrobot.gamespite.net/?feed=rss

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