Twitter is awesome - 600 Visitors and 30 new subscribers in 2 days! Also on Googling yourself….
Twitter continues to Amaze me - Doubled my subscribers in 2 days!
I wrote yesterday how I got about 15 new subscribers in one day using twitter.
I woke up today, and checked my stats. Today I had 63 subscribers, up from 47.
My blog had approximately 600+ hits yesterday.
The most I’ve ever received on any of my online entities.
This truly is awesome, I am a twitter believer.
There is a downside though, with twitter comes a lot of distractions, the same can also be said of friendfeed, pownce, etc…(which I’m also trying to tap into a little bit.)
My major advice is to be devoted to your blog above all else. Twitter is great, and can give you some great ideas as to what to blog about, but the bottom line to being successful is to blog, and blog often.
I try for 2 times per day, 3 would be great, but even once per day if you’re really busy. If you go long periods without writing you’ll never build a true following, and you will lose a lot of your current readers.
Yesterday, I also asked about people who ‘Google Themselves‘. I got a lot of responses in comments, as well as a few on twitter.
As an experiment, I’ve decided to make a change in the Title of this blog, from ‘There’s a Blog in My Soup’, to “There’s a Blog in my Soup: A Blog by Patrick Curl”.
My goal is to see if that raises my ‘brand’, in the search engines.
Also if this is your first time reading my blog you might want to check out, my latest pillar article, on 40 some odd ways to increase your rss subscriber count - which I will be updating regularly.
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March 26th, 2008 at 11:18 am
I am a huge fan of Twitter. I have gotten many new readers because of it and I think the people you meet through Twitter is amazing. Sure it is a huge distraction as I should be working at the moment but saw your update and thought I would leave a comment. But all in all, Twitter can be a great tool if used right.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Twitter will continue to be awesome for you, for probably the rest of the week. By that time you’ll have been able to follow maybe 10k-15k, and staying with ~17% “Follow-back” you could make it a bit above 2k followers. You may get a bit less than 1% to subscribe. As far visitors go, the bulk of your hits are likely coming from twitter users getting a look at who just followed them. They’ll do that once. So spamming twitter works as a quick boost over the short term, but as you run out of people to follow, it fails.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Twitter is a very awesome service. I’ve used it more to network than to pimp my blog, because I just don’t have time to be a regular blogger right now. I am curious, how you came to be following me…. I never would have found your blog without returning the follow, and it does look as tho you have quite a bit more blogging authority than I do, so how did you find me and why did you want to follow me??
March 26th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Patrick,
Glad to hear you are having immediate success with Twitter. I’m one (ish) day in, and can see both awesome potential (expanding web presence) and big pitfalls (more time sinking than Diablo 2, heh heh).
Kudos
March 26th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Not sure why my comment is indented .. did I press the wrong secret handshake code?
March 27th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Stu, it definitely does steal a lot of time, but it also gives a huge boost to my presence, and I get a lot of good ideas of things to blog about.
March 27th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
@Patrick: (this @ thing is new for me, but I see everyone doing it, so it must be right, right? :))
I do understand. I’ve been on it for only a couple of days, and the conversation paradigm is a real shift, but a great one.
Cheers