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Ryan, what a fabulous idea! I am following you now.

I haven't noticed tons more traffic, but enough to make it worth it. One thing is that it hasn't done much for my local traffic, which is what I want, but for the forum that isn't as important.

I would post whatever you think is interesting here on the forum. Some people post daily, some post hourly and some (like me) post infrequently at best. I don't try and keep up with everything, I just read what is recent and have actually stumbled upon a couple really great articles, the good thing about good info and links is that people will retweet them and you will get more followers that way.

I like what you have tweeted so far. Keep making them like teasers, short and punchy, so people will want to read more.
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Along those lines, if you ever feel the need to tweet about a post here there's a little icon on the top left of every thread that says bookmark.  If you hover over it, one of the options is to submit to Twitter. 

I also started a personal Twitter account to play around with.  Get the feeling that it might be a touch on the addictive side like Facebook.

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It's a little weird having people you don't know following you.  I've had 3 people sign up to follow me on my personal account since I made it a few hours ago, and I have no clue who any of them.  Although there seems to be a lot of suggestions out there that following someone in the hope of them following you is a good way to get traffic.  I don't see me following any of theme though. Nothing's written on their feeds that's all that interesting to me. 
« Last Edit: February 21, 2010, 07:37:56 PM by Ryan Nutt »
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I'm following Susie and PAF now.  Big Grin  I looked for you, Ryan, but couldn't find you on there.

I don't really like twitter, but I use it (not frequently) because I will take all the free advertising I can get and twitter seems to be popular with so many businesses and organizations, I just couldn't be left out. 0:-) I like the idea about posting website links! I never thought of that. And I like that I can add topics from here on there too. Maybe I'll start posting more often. Lol. Has anyone noticed higher seo/viewers/followers/etc. with more frequent or consistent posting? I think right now I post about once a month, if that.
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If you check PAF's followers Ryan is following himself, so you can add him there. I didn't follow him because I wasn't sure what his personal account was for yet, and my username is Utahboudoir, so yeah...

Ryan, yeah, random people follow me, I know very few people on my list. I have a couple past clients and then people from here. I don't have a lot of followers yet. But I have noticed a little more traffic to my site. My site stats say I get a few hits on my blog from Twitter every time I blog. My blogs are automatically posted onto my tweets.
I have also gotten photographers sending me direct messages telling me they like my work, etc, so that's fun.

If you look on the right side there is a "search" field. If you type in something it will find tweets with that word in it. I follow The Lingerie Post's blog and tweats and she tweated a question about where to find a certain type of lingerie recently. I responded with an idea about sewing it yourself. I mentioned the word "panties" and after that a few lingerie-related businesses followed me. I've typed "boudoir" before to see what others are tweeting and followed a few that interested me. So try using keywords in your tweets.

Like anything else, it takes a little time to build up a following. I like following people with good content, news, links to articles, etc. I don't follow people that tweet random stuff like "I'm blowing my nose right now". Celebrities can get away with that because people care. No one cares what we are doing, unless it's related to your business.  A tweet like "Doing a goth-themed photoshoot today, check my blog later for pictures" is good.
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Ryan is following himself,
Something about online stalking myself just doesn't seem right Cheesy Grin
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Ryan is following himself,
Something about online stalking myself just doesn't seem right Cheesy Grin

Kind of like a dog chasing its tail.  Cheesy
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Ryan is following himself,
Something about online stalking myself just doesn't seem right Cheesy Grin

LOL, I didn't realize how funny that sounded.
FYI, my husband is following you Ryan. I told him to follow the PAF account and he was really concerned about looking creepy because you don't know him. He is CCB1212. So for the record - he isn't creepy (he told me to say that, so that in itself is kinda creepy, but he's not, I promise).
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Doesn't sound as creepy as a clown with a delivery van full of free candy. ROFL
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Ok, I found Ryan and Marian. :-)

Thanks for the tips on posting Susie. Those are good ideas.
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Wow!  There are 50,000,000 tweets a day.  If the math is right, that's 600 per second.

Link: http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/measuring-tweets.html
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Wow!  There are 50,000,000 tweets a day.  If the math is right, that's 600 per second.

Link: http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/measuring-tweets.html

That's incredible!!
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Something interesting that I've noticed.  I've tweeted about half a dozen threads from here into my PAF twitter account.  Within 60 seconds GoogleBot hits the pages that I linked to.  Seems to quickly grab the GoogleBot and drag it back here.  Don't know how helpful that is with actually getting new content indexed, but it can't hurt.
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Yeah, I didn't even think about using it for SEO. I think I'm going to plan a little more carefully what I put on there, use it to the best of my ability. :-)
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