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Re:DuckDuckGo Twitter ad by the numbers by jamesgagan on Thursday July 07, 2011 @11:07PM (#2741166)
I've tried a similar strategy (throwing up a quickie site based on a trending hashtag) in the past by making http://threewordstoliveby.info and http://weedcommandments.com So far it seems that once the hashtag has stopped trending, the sites don't get much traffic. But I suppose it's possible that a hashtag might trend again in the future so I keep them alive. One idea I had was making some kind of automated program to grab the trending hashtags, see if a matching domain is available , make a site from the twitter stream, then... profit?
Re:DuckDuckGo Twitter ad by the numbers by ddelphin on Friday July 08, 2011 @01:02AM (#2741344)
Question is, are there really any true benefits to these microsites that just show the equivalent of a twitter search on a separate page. What would make a user want to click over to it? I kinda understand the point of a site like texts from last night, but I think that has some unique appeal. No?