Comments on: Getting Serious(er) About Twitter http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/ Blog promotion, social marketing, and link building tips. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:25:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jack Humphrey http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-74083 Jack Humphrey Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:46:43 +0000 http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/?p=1810#comment-74083 Betty - You can click on my Twitter follow badge and put your Twitter username in the field on the resulting page. Once you do that it says something like "Put this on your site" on the mid-right side and they give you the code. Just open a text widget in Wordpress widgets and place the code there, then wherever you want in your sidebar. For the Follow Me badge, I just found that by Googling Twitter graphics or "follow me graphic" and found someone giving them away. I just grabbed the one I liked and opened a text widget and put the html code in to make it clickable. I'm sure there's a service out there that will give you the code ready-made with a larger selection of buttons. I just got impatient and did it myself. Betty – You can click on my Twitter follow badge and put your Twitter username in the field on the resulting page. Once you do that it says something like “Put this on your site” on the mid-right side and they give you the code. Just open a text widget in Wordpress widgets and place the code there, then wherever you want in your sidebar.

For the Follow Me badge, I just found that by Googling Twitter graphics or “follow me graphic” and found someone giving them away. I just grabbed the one I liked and opened a text widget and put the html code in to make it clickable. I’m sure there’s a service out there that will give you the code ready-made with a larger selection of buttons. I just got impatient and did it myself.

]]> By: Betty http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-74055 Betty Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:30:41 +0000 http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/?p=1810#comment-74055 Jack, I just found your site. It is great with lots of good info. I'm trying to add a link on my WP blog to "followme" in twitter. I haven't found a plugin or widget that offers that feature. You have that on your blog. Would you be kind enough to tell me how you did it? Thanks, Betty www.bettyfellows.com Jack,
I just found your site. It is great with lots of good info. I’m trying to add a link on my WP blog to “followme” in twitter. I haven’t found a plugin or widget that offers that feature. You have that on your blog. Would you be kind enough to tell me how you did it?

Thanks, Betty
http://www.bettyfellows.com

]]> By: Martin Malden http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-74054 Martin Malden Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:27:06 +0000 http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/?p=1810#comment-74054 I agree... I do use Twitter and my blog posts are streamed there, but I've also recently added Twitter to my list of Onlywire accounts. Since I bookmark (on OW) anything I find interesting (genuinely interesting, not just on IM) my Twitter account gets Tweets on all sorts of subjects. I've seen a noticeable up tick in people following me since I did that (not altogether surprising, I suppose!) and I also get to see a whole range of other interesting stuff (mixed in with an even wider range of purely promotional tweets). I've also noticed a general increase in traffic to my blog, although I haven't been able to discover whether that's from Twitter or not! Cheers, Martin. <abbr><em><abbr><em>Martin Maldens last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CreatingAnAwesomeHomeBusiness/~3/484157220/">10 SEO Steps For a New Website</a></em></abbr></em></abbr> I agree…

I do use Twitter and my blog posts are streamed there, but I’ve also recently added Twitter to my list of Onlywire accounts. Since I bookmark (on OW) anything I find interesting (genuinely interesting, not just on IM) my Twitter account gets Tweets on all sorts of subjects.

I’ve seen a noticeable up tick in people following me since I did that (not altogether surprising, I suppose!) and I also get to see a whole range of other interesting stuff (mixed in with an even wider range of purely promotional tweets).

I’ve also noticed a general increase in traffic to my blog, although I haven’t been able to discover whether that’s from Twitter or not!

Cheers,

Martin.

Martin Maldens last blog post..10 SEO Steps For a New Website

]]> By: Drilling Down and Going Deep http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-74023 Drilling Down and Going Deep Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:58:50 +0000 http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/?p=1810#comment-74023 [...] I talked about this the other day.  Definitely working more with Twitter this [...] [...] I talked about this the other day.  Definitely working more with Twitter this [...]

]]> By: Jack Humphrey http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-74019 Jack Humphrey Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:31:30 +0000 http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/?p=1810#comment-74019 J - One Twitter account if you have one focus. Multiple accounts if you must keep them separate. But every account you have needs TLC, otherwise it would be better to just have one that is active, engaging, and useful to people even if some Tweets are not appealing to the entire group. If you have an account under your name you can do like everyone else does and simply Twitter what you want. I don't care about everything Scoble tweets, but some of his stuff is good enough that I continue to follow. Develop that kind of account and you can get away with one account for multiple interests. Everyone has more than one interest. J – One Twitter account if you have one focus. Multiple accounts if you must keep them separate. But every account you have needs TLC, otherwise it would be better to just have one that is active, engaging, and useful to people even if some Tweets are not appealing to the entire group.

If you have an account under your name you can do like everyone else does and simply Twitter what you want. I don’t care about everything Scoble tweets, but some of his stuff is good enough that I continue to follow. Develop that kind of account and you can get away with one account for multiple interests. Everyone has more than one interest.

]]> By: Jack Humphrey http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-74018 Jack Humphrey Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:27:49 +0000 http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/?p=1810#comment-74018 Scott - I agree 100% Liberal use of the "Unfollow" button when people fail to come through with things you are interested in is in order. I like to keep my tweets clean as much as possible and will only follow people who strike me as interesting, helpful, or otherwise important for me to follow. That's why my follow count is currently under 100. It's going back up, but most people have nothing to say on Twitter that I want clogging up my twit stream. You can miss some really good stuff by following too many people. Therefore, connections are not made and the conversation becomes pure noise, IMO. Maybe I'll find a way to follow more people more efficiently, but for now I am enjoying following a smaller group for the fact that I CAN make connections and not get overwhelmed. Scott – I agree 100% Liberal use of the “Unfollow” button when people fail to come through with things you are interested in is in order. I like to keep my tweets clean as much as possible and will only follow people who strike me as interesting, helpful, or otherwise important for me to follow. That’s why my follow count is currently under 100. It’s going back up, but most people have nothing to say on Twitter that I want clogging up my twit stream.

You can miss some really good stuff by following too many people. Therefore, connections are not made and the conversation becomes pure noise, IMO. Maybe I’ll find a way to follow more people more efficiently, but for now I am enjoying following a smaller group for the fact that I CAN make connections and not get overwhelmed.

]]> By: Scott@reduceyourweight http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-74015 Scott@reduceyourweight Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:03:01 +0000 http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/?p=1810#comment-74015 Jack I agree with Diane about the importance of following people. Is it just the big dogs so to speak that people follow because the little dogs have nothing important to say? Is it just big dogs following other big dogs? My opinion and that is all it is most have jumped on the twitter bandwagon like Filsaime just to reach people they might not be reaching. He is not the only one but all the so called self anointed gurus are doing it. My question is are they doing it to really connect to people or because they want to market to them. There is a difference in connecting to people for the sake of connecting to them and out of that comes the possible result of selling something than connecting to people under the guise of connecting with the real reason being to sell them something. There is nothing wrong with selling just be upfront about it. There is something wrong with connecting under the guise of connecting to sell something. Twitter was setup I am sure for people to connect with other people, not for gurus to market their wares. That is part of the overall problem in our world is people don't really connect with people except on the surface. Personally I love tumblr more than twitter. Jack
I agree with Diane about the importance of following people. Is it just the big dogs so to speak that people follow because the little dogs have nothing important to say? Is it just big dogs following other big dogs?

My opinion and that is all it is most have jumped on the twitter bandwagon like Filsaime just to reach people they might not be reaching. He is not the only one but all the so called self anointed gurus are doing it. My question is are they doing it to really connect to people or because they want to market to them. There is a difference in connecting to people for the sake of connecting to them and out of that comes the possible result of selling something than connecting to people under the guise of connecting with the real reason being to sell them something. There is nothing wrong with selling just be upfront about it. There is something wrong with connecting under the guise of connecting to sell something. Twitter was setup I am sure for people to connect with other people, not for gurus to market their wares.

That is part of the overall problem in our world is people don’t really connect with people except on the surface.
Personally I love tumblr more than twitter.

]]> By: j@networkmarketingnewschool http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-74014 j@networkmarketingnewschool Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:00:47 +0000 http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/?p=1810#comment-74014 Multiple sites appealing to different groups of people - one twitter account or multiple twitter accounts? Your recommendation. Multiple sites appealing to different groups of people – one twitter account or multiple twitter accounts? Your recommendation.

]]> By: scott http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-74011 scott Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:13:23 +0000 http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/?p=1810#comment-74011 You may also want to check out yonkly. It's the first "create your own" microblog to integrate with Twitter: http://yonkly.com You may also want to check out yonkly. It’s the first “create your own” microblog to integrate with Twitter: http://yonkly.com

]]> By: Jack Humphrey http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/getting-seriouser-about-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-74009 Jack Humphrey Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:50:29 +0000 http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/?p=1810#comment-74009 Great Diane! Going to see Mr. Tweet now. (And you of course.) Great Diane! Going to see Mr. Tweet now. (And you of course.)

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