*laughing at slatimer* Huh. That's nothing. Why, just last month I got 33,000!!! And I made $16,000!!! WOW!!!
I am quite amazed how I still get loads of clicks from the followers, considering the spamage going on in there.
After quite a while of experimenting I find it kind of useless. There are better easier ways to get more clicks. Twitter is quickly becoming a faster way of RSS feeds and commenting on RSS feeds.
Make sure you follow targetted people, so you have targetted followers. Don't SPAM updates, people will only unfollow you. Use Twitter as it was designed to be used, AKA social networking, talk to your followers! Give your twitter followers freebies for following you, ebooks, downloads, whatever. Post all of your new blog posts to your Twitter account. Promote your old posts. Post updates every 15-30 minutes, depending on how many followers you have. If you need any more help, send me a private-message, I'm not a guru with Twitter, but I've had good results from using twitter.
It does look bad, whenever people follow me and their following even one more person then follows them I don't even consider following them. It's better to let people find you on their own. You might consider doing a search for whatever your site is about and @replying people and making conversation.
I would not call 5000 updates for only ~600 followers success. I mean, it may be success on twitter. It may even get you some decent hits. But it seems like a lot of work put into something with very little benefit. Of those 600, how many actually help you get thousands of unique visitors?
Wow, seems like twitter is a controversial. I haven't jumped in on the craze b/c it just seemed like a bunch of extra work. But it looks as if you can set it to automatically post, and if that's the case...it may be worth a look. Just my 2 cents worth.
Visitors from twitter are very good, but not in big number. Those who click and visit my URL, they open more pages on site then usual visitors, and stay more time.
Yeah, I was thinking that myself. The stupidity of webmasters, or people in general, has always amazed me. I have often wondered how they get to be so dumb. Upbringing? A brain disorder???... It's a mystery, that's for sure.
I think the thing that has helped me build a decent twitter following is using a viral system>> http://ViralFollowers.com/makemoneyfree21/vu
Twitter traffic is not that converting , unless you got people to follow you through a niche. What I mean is, if you have popular blog on say forex trading and you have this follow me on twitter badge on your blog and people follow you from there, it means they came to your blog, read your article, liked what you did and is interested in the forex niche. They will be converting traffic. Most people using twitter is following people just to get followe back
I reached more than 5K followers in a few weeks using this strategy. 1. Follow as many relevant users as you can. 2. Wait a day or 2. 3. Remove non-following users 4. post an update (s) 5. Repeat the process
i just joined today to twitter, and i used this site http://tweetergetter.com/tamilseo and got 9 twitters.