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How Many Micro-Blogs Is Enough/ Too Much and What Works For You?
Posted by n8 • 8/06/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Jaiku, micro-blog, social networking, twitter
It seems like every day there's a new micro-blogging service available. I currently use Twitter and Jaiku as they seem to both show up well on Yahoo and Google alike.
It's becoming far too complicated to stay current with them all. I'll sign up for anything new for a test drive, but with all the social networks I belong to it's hard to be an active participant without syndication.
What micro-blogging services do you use and why do you use them? that is.. What's the upside to the services you like and why should I adapt them?
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I am signed up for microblogging services but I never use them... I don't get why anyone would actually care about half the stuff microbloggers write -
I only recently got into microblogging services, but according to Awstats and Google Analytics they appear to work. I got close to 100 page visits from Twitter alone yesterday.
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They appear to work how? What kind of stuff are you posting that draws 100 visitors?
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It appears that Google is catching keywords in my posts. I think it works much like the Google keyword tagging game. Not all my posts get hit, but it is an interesting way to generate keywords that work for a given web site. I wouldn't say that 100 a day is the norm... far from it. However it appears the more you post the more you have a chance to hit words that work...obviously.
As far as what I was posting yesterday, it was mainly SEO type stuff. Random tasks I perform every day. I think that the fact that I have a lot of developers in my Twitter network accounts for the spike. I do notice fairly regularly through out the week Jaiku and Twitter posts showing up in Google and Yahoo. I can then take these keywords and work with them.
I started an experiment yesterday where I posted on Twitter once or twice an hour hence yesterday's spike in page views. If I go back 2 to 3 days later I notice my page visits are much lower. I actually, started that experiment to see how effective micro-blogging was. I have a Twitter badge where I would see people posting every 5 minutes and thought what a waste of time, but it would seem that there is a method behind the madness here.
Again I'm pretty new to the whole micro-blogging concept and am as skeptical as you seem to be. This is an experiment to see if such services are worth using. Again I only started really putting an effort forward very recently so data is pretty limited thus far.
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