To be honest I’ve been a bit of a laggard when it comes to Tweeting on Twitter.
I opened my Twitter account quite a number of months ago, made a tweet, then promptly forgot about it for weeks on end. I did make the occasional Tweet, but they were very few and far between, and basically I was only tweeting about stuff that happened at home etc. (I can be a real bore)…
So imagine my surprise when I logged into my account one day and found I had about 300 people waiting to be approved to follow me, fancy wanting to follow little old me…
I was pretty much chuffed, but again I lapsed into yeah ok (yawn)…
I so wasn’t convinced that Twitter would be that useful for IM marketing, after all if you’re following a large number of people, Tweets can soon fall down the page, and when I do login, all those blatent urls just make me grit my teeth!
I find I seem to stay at the 700 mark of followers, I think that’s probably because I now check in on a relatively regular basis and unfollow a lot of folks who just tweet links etc. I guess those people then unfollow me back lol.
Maybe I’m doing the whole Tweeting thing wrong, but I’m not interested in following folks just for the sake of it, yeah ok drop the occasional link, but please try and post something interesting or even useful for a change, because those that do invariably catch my eye and I’ll tend to investigate them…
So how are you tweeting?
Are you just dropping loads of links and hoping some will stick, or are you interspersing your Tweets with occasional nuggets of info etc? Well ’m going down the info road and it appears to be working just fine for me so far.
For instance I dropped a link re XSitePro’s new webuilding course a while back. At the time and due to circumstances it was the only affiliate link I had out there for this particular product. To my surprise I made an affiliate sale a couple of weeks ago. (And it’s a high price item). The only link was on that one Twitter post, so it must have come from there…
So was it a fluke? I’ve no idea at the moment to be honest, but it’s something I’m certainly going to be following up. (I’ll keep you all posted)
Cheers
Kim
