Comments on: Cashing in on ‘Friends’ and ‘Followers’ http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/ Site news and commentary for WalesCymru.com and the Welsh social media scene Fri, 18 May 2012 00:27:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: JasonU http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-41 JasonU Wed, 06 May 2009 19:36:06 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-41 Thanks for that information. It has not crossed my mind to sell click throughs from twitter as a service. I use it tandem with other sources to gain traffic. It would be interesting to see the subsequent conversion rates / time spent on site / page open etc figures as well. Thanks for that information.

It has not crossed my mind to sell click throughs from twitter as a service.

I use it tandem with other sources to gain traffic. It would be interesting to see the subsequent conversion rates / time spent on site / page open etc figures as well.

]]> By: greg http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-40 greg Wed, 06 May 2009 18:01:34 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-40 Jason. Interesting question on Twitter Click Thru Rates. I found the following Blog on Tweetburner useful: http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/06/tweetburner-clickthrough-rates.html This shows Tweeters with largest number of followers had the lowest CTR, around 4%, while those with fewer followers could get very high CTR. One Tweeter, with 7 followers, had 91% CTR. The answer I suppose depends on why your followers chose to follow you in the first place, and how useful your updates are to them. Jason. Interesting question on Twitter Click Thru Rates. I found the following Blog on Tweetburner useful:

http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/06/tweetburner-clickthrough-rates.html

This shows Tweeters with largest number of followers had the lowest CTR, around 4%, while those with fewer followers could get very high CTR. One Tweeter, with 7 followers, had 91% CTR. The answer I suppose depends on why your followers chose to follow you in the first place, and how useful your updates are to them.

]]> By: greg http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-39 greg Wed, 06 May 2009 17:50:31 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-39 Dave, as I understand - on Twitter you select the people you Follow and it's their updates you see. Anyone can follow you, but that doesn't clog your timeline; in fact it's a measure of how interesting and/or useful your updates are. A company such as Amazon, or an airline such as BA may have several million followers, who want to be kept up-to-date on product releases, offers, etc. CNN in fact has the largest number of Twitter followers, approx 1.4m; while the 'un/official' Coca Cola Facebook page has over 3m 'fans'. This blog is about list building (the service you were complaining about), and how you go about generating more 'followers'. I was not advocating this as a way to build your own Friend list; or to automate the selection of those people you're 'following'. The point of the blog is simply to ask, why have a large follower base if this has no value to you. Dave, as I understand - on Twitter you select the people you Follow and it’s their updates you see. Anyone can follow you, but that doesn’t clog your timeline; in fact it’s a measure of how interesting and/or useful your updates are. A company such as Amazon, or an airline such as BA may have several million followers, who want to be kept up-to-date on product releases, offers, etc. CNN in fact has the largest number of Twitter followers, approx 1.4m; while the ‘un/official’ Coca Cola Facebook page has over 3m ‘fans’. This blog is about list building (the service you were complaining about), and how you go about generating more ‘followers’. I was not advocating this as a way to build your own Friend list; or to automate the selection of those people you’re ‘following’. The point of the blog is simply to ask, why have a large follower base if this has no value to you.

]]> By: JasonU http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-38 JasonU Mon, 04 May 2009 20:19:28 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-38 Do you know what the click through rates are from posts on Twitter? Do you know what the click through rates are from posts on Twitter?

]]> By: davebull http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-37 davebull Mon, 04 May 2009 16:58:56 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-37 Hi Greg You tweeted to say this article was "in response to" my tweet in which I objected to a new follower trying to drive me to a website selling an "automated system" for getting me 20,000 followers. I can't really see that this article addresses that issue; you seem to start from a position that has no qualms whatsoever with clogging someone else's timeline with adverts for systems that involve clogging someone else;'s timeline with adverts, and that concerns me. Ecademy didn't take long to turn into a sharkpool of pyramid salesmen (despite the exorbitant membership fees); linkedin will probably go the same way because of its guilt-driven system to make everyone recommend everyone else; I would be really really saddened to see the quite incredible communications tool that is Twitter become deserted by all the decent folk simply because people bought into this myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the.... Everyone keeps saying it, and it's true: people buy people. Yes, it's harder to spot a robot in 140 characters than it is face to face, over the phone or in an email. I have no problem with building genuine lists of people who are genuinely interested in reading your stuff. I do have a problem with being randomly targeted by people because they're desperate to recoup the money they've lost to another spammer by spamming me. Dave Hi Greg

You tweeted to say this article was “in response to” my tweet in which I objected to a new follower trying to drive me to a website selling an “automated system” for getting me 20,000 followers.

I can’t really see that this article addresses that issue; you seem to start from a position that has no qualms whatsoever with clogging someone else’s timeline with adverts for systems that involve clogging someone else;’s timeline with adverts, and that concerns me.

Ecademy didn’t take long to turn into a sharkpool of pyramid salesmen (despite the exorbitant membership fees); linkedin will probably go the same way because of its guilt-driven system to make everyone recommend everyone else; I would be really really saddened to see the quite incredible communications tool that is Twitter become deserted by all the decent folk simply because people bought into this myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the….

Everyone keeps saying it, and it’s true: people buy people. Yes, it’s harder to spot a robot in 140 characters than it is face to face, over the phone or in an email. I have no problem with building genuine lists of people who are genuinely interested in reading your stuff. I do have a problem with being randomly targeted by people because they’re desperate to recoup the money they’ve lost to another spammer by spamming me.

Dave

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