Comments on: Twitter – awesome source of blog traffic http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/ Open government and everything else Tue, 08 May 2012 15:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dave http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-580 Dave Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:12:07 +0000 http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/#comment-580 Heh, will see if I can create a Nick Booth specific feed that excludes any automatically generated content! ;-) Heh, will see if I can create a Nick Booth specific feed that excludes any automatically generated content! ;-)

]]> By: Nick Booth http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-579 Nick Booth Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:00:16 +0000 http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/#comment-579 Curiously Dave I wonder if it's a matter of perspective and personality. You are using your blog as a tool for your own thoughts - in which other people share, so dumping the links there makes sense. I see your blog as something that I use - which means it should be how I want it! It's not about you. It's about me, me, me. Curiously Dave I wonder if it’s a matter of perspective and personality. You are using your blog as a tool for your own thoughts – in which other people share, so dumping the links there makes sense. I see your blog as something that I use – which means it should be how I want it!

It’s not about you. It’s about me, me, me.

]]> By: Dave http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-575 Dave Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:28:18 +0000 http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/#comment-575 I'm certainly not claiming that Twitter is going to take over from RSS, just that it's taking some of my attention away from the aggregator. This conversation seems to be covering a number of topics, including that around who a blog is written for as well as what measures of success exist for a blog in terms of reach. I have an average of around 80 readers a day by RSS. On a good day I get 150 hits to the site, on a bad one about 20. So RSS <b>is</b> a far more reliable source of readers. On the del.icio.us postings - it's obviously a personal thing. I like them - I like seeing my own on my blog the next morning - and enjoy reading others. I see them as harking back to the original point of the weblog, a log of what's been interesting on the web, with a bit of commentary. I’m certainly not claiming that Twitter is going to take over from RSS, just that it’s taking some of my attention away from the aggregator.

This conversation seems to be covering a number of topics, including that around who a blog is written for as well as what measures of success exist for a blog in terms of reach.

I have an average of around 80 readers a day by RSS. On a good day I get 150 hits to the site, on a bad one about 20. So RSS is a far more reliable source of readers.

On the del.icio.us postings – it’s obviously a personal thing. I like them – I like seeing my own on my blog the next morning – and enjoy reading others. I see them as harking back to the original point of the weblog, a log of what’s been interesting on the web, with a bit of commentary.

]]> By: SimonD http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-572 SimonD Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:40:15 +0000 http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/#comment-572 Good point(s) Nick. I stopped the del.icio.us automatic posting thing myself a while back, for precisely that reason. And to be honest, I almost always skip over those posts when I see them on other people's blogs. There's certainly room for automated tweeting - but it has to be explicitly 'opt in'. I get a few BBC 'breaking news' tweets courtesy of Twitterfeed, but since that's all that comes through on those particular accounts, I'm perfectly happy to get them. Good point(s) Nick. I stopped the del.icio.us automatic posting thing myself a while back, for precisely that reason. And to be honest, I almost always skip over those posts when I see them on other people’s blogs.

There’s certainly room for automated tweeting – but it has to be explicitly ‘opt in’. I get a few BBC ‘breaking news’ tweets courtesy of Twitterfeed, but since that’s all that comes through on those particular accounts, I’m perfectly happy to get them.

]]> By: Nick Booth http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-571 Nick Booth Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:34:39 +0000 http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/#comment-571 I agree with SimonD (that's happening a lot recently!). The automatic posting seems to me to be an approach which is clamouring for attention, rather than adapting what you share with particular audiences. I don't do it at the moment - I stopped automatically adding delicious links to my blog because it seemed asocial to me. Fortunately Pete Ashton persuaded me to share my full feed and I'm just starting to appreciate the value of allowing people to use that as they will rather than as I will. I agree with SimonD (that’s happening a lot recently!). The automatic posting seems to me to be an approach which is clamouring for attention, rather than adapting what you share with particular audiences.

I don’t do it at the moment – I stopped automatically adding delicious links to my blog because it seemed asocial to me.

Fortunately Pete Ashton persuaded me to share my full feed and I’m just starting to appreciate the value of allowing people to use that as they will rather than as I will.

]]> By: SimonD http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-569 SimonD Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:14:19 +0000 http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/#comment-569 Twitter might be one source of website referrals, but I can't agree with the word 'awesome'. That's ignoring the effect of publishing a full-content RSS feed. I don't visit the site much, because I don't need to. The site comes to me. Therefore, I don't leave a website referral of any kind. My guess is that your number of Feedburner subscribers outweighs all your Twitter referrals, and most likely, all your website's page views. That's your key audience. Twitter might be the best of the rest, but it's still only second-best. For the record: me no like those 'New blog post' tweets. Too cold, too mechanical. The RSS 'description' might make it feel a bit more human. Twitter might be one source of website referrals, but I can’t agree with the word ‘awesome’. That’s ignoring the effect of publishing a full-content RSS feed.

I don’t visit the site much, because I don’t need to. The site comes to me. Therefore, I don’t leave a website referral of any kind.

My guess is that your number of Feedburner subscribers outweighs all your Twitter referrals, and most likely, all your website’s page views. That’s your key audience. Twitter might be the best of the rest, but it’s still only second-best.

For the record: me no like those ‘New blog post’ tweets. Too cold, too mechanical. The RSS ‘description’ might make it feel a bit more human.

]]> By: Dave http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-568 Dave Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:27:02 +0000 http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/#comment-568 That's a good point, re: Google results. Am surprised that tweets are appearing that quickly in the index though. The Google CSE based <a href="http://findatweet.com" rel="nofollow">twitter search engine</a> I made recently seems to lag a few days behind at least. I don't know whether the auto tweets annoy people or not. I haven't had anyone stop following me since I started them, and I find them really useful from others, with the result that I am spending less and less time in my RSS reader! That’s a good point, re: Google results. Am surprised that tweets are appearing that quickly in the index though. The Google CSE based twitter search engine I made recently seems to lag a few days behind at least.

I don’t know whether the auto tweets annoy people or not. I haven’t had anyone stop following me since I started them, and I find them really useful from others, with the result that I am spending less and less time in my RSS reader!

]]> By: Christian Kreutz http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-567 Christian Kreutz Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:23:05 +0000 http://davepress.net/2008/03/10/twitter-awesome-source-of-blog-traffic/#comment-567 Thanks for your nice post. I also get some traffic from Twitter but I think this is also caused by twitters page rank in google. So people come to your blog through Google via your twitter statuses. Twitter statuses are sometimes in minutes indexed by Google. However, I sense that the some part of twitter community denounces automatic blog tweets. I therefore stopped it. What is your experience? Thanks for your nice post. I also get some traffic from Twitter but I think this is also caused by twitters page rank in google. So people come to your blog through Google via your twitter statuses. Twitter statuses are sometimes in minutes indexed by Google. However, I sense that the some part of twitter community denounces automatic blog tweets. I therefore stopped it. What is your experience?

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