Ask HN: Do You Twitter?

Re:Ask HN: Do You Twitter? by azharcs on Friday February 13, 2009 @02:42PM (#480283)

It is actually more than that. I am following some 150 people and it is very rare that people tweet about what they are doing. When i started using twitter, i was skeptical that it would be of any value. But slowly i realize that it is much more powerful than i thought. It is like speaking on a stage where your followers are listening to you always.

By just putting in 10 or 15 mins of your day, you will be able to generate a lot of value from your twitter account. It is like a brand, better you tweet, more followers you have (how you utilize them depends on you).

Giving you an example, I have around 225 followers, so whenever i tweet a link, i get around 50 views. There are people with more followers like 1000 who i am assuming get around 250 views for every link they post. Mike Arrington has close to 25k - 30k followers, i am pretty much sure he get lot of traffic from twitter and he is also socializing with his users.

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Re:Ask HN: Do You Twitter? by petercooper on Friday February 13, 2009 @02:56PM (#480304)

I have a Twitter account with over 10,000 followers (not my personal account to which I only have 1500 :)) and you're guaranteed about 80-100 clicks within the first few minutes of linking to something (yes, I've used a tracker). Typically, it sees about 250 clicks overall (within 24 hours) with 500 being a record (back when it had about 8000 followers).

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Re:Ask HN: Do You Twitter? by azharcs on Saturday February 14, 2009 @01:35AM (#480906)

true, i think click-through rate increases as quality of tweets increases and also i think frequency of tweets matter a lot.

ps: I like your books :)

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Re:Ask HN: Do You Twitter? by petercooper on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @01:34PM (#486089)

Thanks!

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