New Blog Traffic 2010

Followup From A New Twitter User

As I wrote the other day I finally signed up for the Twitter phenomena. And without doing almost nothing expect from adding some small mini updates now and then I can observe followers are coming in on a regular basis. As I am new into this I reward everyone with a look on their profile and homepage plus some urls in the updates if anything is of interest. I follow the most when it it seems to fit and the follower seems to be ordinary ok on the first impression. This gives me a feeling of control at least now in the beginning.

It is a lot of different types of tweets and tweet services I’ve observed. Tweet this and tweet that…it is difficult to sort them all out lol….and you cannot get enough followers it seems as you will always find someone who is better than another and they all try to break each others records. But short and sweet, the most of them is concerned and focused onto help you to get a flood of new followers automatically without any effort!!!!……Today I found one profile having over a million followers but just followed under 50 himself….impressing. Or is it?

So is this what we want? Automated followers nobody really care about. Is this big base something to count on? To rely on? Is this a measure of strength and power? Is it of influental importance to have a big Twitter base to show up on the right upper area on your personal Twitter homepage? Does it matter if you follow a high ranked Twitter member or not? Does it matter if your profile have a rank at all for getting any decent visitor traffic to the page?

Anyhow, on my new-starter-level I have signed up for a shortening url service so I can add one url in the micromessage if and when I want. Stats is provided so I can watch how many and where the visitors are coming from. This seems ok for now and have added a value for me. Cannot think of, however, to sign up for any automated software to increase the follower base. Tell me that I am dumb but I just can’t and I prefer to maintain and build a ‘natural flow’ at least ‘the most possible natural flow’. The globe is big and every way goes to Rome or how they say it. I also believe in natural connections and that people oftenly do meet each other for multiple not yet known reasons in our lives. So why bother hardforce it and use softwares to forcing the process? Many foretalkers would say it would save time, efforts and so forth and this I can understand but in this case I need to stay back.

It is all about values I guess. As you can find I have also taking into account to try out the wp-plugin tweet button placed on every post making it easier for other users to tweet the post if they like. This is ok in my eyes as it does not force the visitor but just simple do allow the possibility to share the content further by free willpower. Just a simplifying tool.

What I do like with Twitter is that it is so direct. I like the live-feature. When I search on search.twitter.com and reading a thread of interest I can directly follow every new input made. This is fresh for me and hope that not all are pre-made updates. As fresh as it can be at least.

Ok, more questions than answers here but welcome to share your thoughts about twitter and experiences involved. I plan to follow up further on how it goes for me using this somewhat intriguing service. I’m also a little bit interested to follow whether Google will buy Twitter or not in the future ( this year or next year 2010).

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