I personally think it is good only if you can build up enough followers that want to visit the links you provide them.
I think it depends on what you are pushing, and how well you word it. If it looks spammy then people will avoid it. Followers would help. People on twitter will click almost anything if you word it right and the topic is of interest. Although the bounce rate tends to be extremely high. People don't stick around long if you don't have something interesting. But it's free traffic. I think you just need to play around with different thoughts and ideas like anything else out there.
yeah your right gameutopia it depends on people and the word if interesting, people might be like your topic then surely they click the link and you can get traffic
The more relevant the interests the more clicks you get. Do you click on things that aren't interesting to you?
I never "got" Twitter. It's nothing more than an account where I get updates from people I don't know about things I don't care about. Facebook has far greater value. I think Twitter is mostly used by business owners and marketers.
If you are just on Twitter because everyone else is and you are using it in an unfocused way then you are unlikely to see it as anything more than a waste of time.
It all depends, what is the industry that your website represents. I have specific industry so I dont get much traffic, but it helps a little bit.
Wow I guess I should go and make an account and test it out. But I wonder, would it really help if I'm a new twittler? And how do you guys use twitter to promote your site/update? Do you have any script or code to do so ?
OK the best way to use twitter in my opinion is to follow this process: 1. Set up a new twitter account 2. Set up a blog with wordpress 3. Add the plugins post to twitter and WP-O-Matic 4. Collect some RSS feeds about your blog niche 5. Set up the feeds in WP-O-Matic 6. Configure the Post to Twitter plugin with your twitter details 7. Run the WP-O-Matic plugin and set it to update every day 8. Watch the tweets hitting your twitter account 9. Followers will read your blog 10. Set up an email capture on your blog 11. Build your list and market to them I also use tweet adder to collect followers on twitter.
Anyone can give me tips on how to make this work in the gaming niche? it hasn't been helping me at all!
I've been trying for a day or two.. and the result were quite good for a newbie twitter like myself. Slowly getting some traffic from twitter. So I voted GOOD.
I have my blog post to Twitter automatically and I pick up followers weekly from that. Other than that, I don't use Twitter at all.
I've gained tons of traffic to my blog through twitter. People who use twitter tend to be people who enjoy reading and actually sharing your content if its of value. Its not like the traffic you would get from stumbldupon - Its traffic from a solid group of people who typically "get it."