Case Study: Auto-Tweeting Blog Comments
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Early last week I was thinking about trying to see if people or my twitter followers would be interested in users that are leaving comments on my blog. Creating more interaction and bridging the social community from twitter, facebook, and my blog.
As you know I auto tweet my new blog posts to twitter, which happens one time. I also thought certain followers may not be that active at certain hours of the day. So I figured if I post my comments to twitter, there would be a great deal of visits and interaction. So I basically just grabbed my comment rss feed and inserted it into TwitterFeed.com ti ping every 2 hours and post any new comments within those 2 hours.
Well I did a case study on this and found the results to be interesting.
It isn’t much traffic as I expected less than 4% out of my 1000 followers per link generated clicked through. Also there wasn’t much interaction within the comments of the blog post, which was my primary goal. I wanted to create more interaction between social networks and my blog, fail.
As you can see from the image above, the initial post only received 23 clicks, but then after received a total of 141 clicks. Not really impressive I think, especially when I was trying to accomplish something.
Also, since I sync my facebook account with twitter, they also show up on my facebook status. I personally also got annoyed at the fact that it was on there and filling up my facebook wall, if I was annoyed others were too.
The others were not afraid to tell me either. I respect these guys for just letting me know how it is, which is good feedback I think anyways. @lenstrom and @nickycakes basically just told me it was annoying.
So since I didn’t accomplish what I wanted with my case study, I have removed the auto commenting from blog to twitter. Though it seemed like a good viable way to use twitter day parting and seeing what time of day you get more responsive tweeters. But annoyance is annoying, it even caught up to me.
So I have removed the rss feed for my comments from TwitterFeed.com and everything should be good now. I am still going to sync my Facebook status with my twitter though, might do a poll on that as well.
Good move on the removal, sir.
good thing u removed it cuz i didnt like it either. the idea works well on paper and in theory, but not so much in practice. shud we expect an email/zip submit following ur poll? =p
Not sure why it was annoying, knowing what someone just saw on tv is annoying.
@The Blogger Source – Apples and Oranges.
I guess it does get annoying, but I saw a tweet on your twitter that someone left a comment on a post I didn’t read yet, which resulted in me clicking on it, and reading the post. I also left a comment on the post. You probably get a lot of comments, so it probably got too much, but it deffinetly resulted in some kind of interaction, if very minimal.
It is great that you listen to your readers for feedback. I like the idea of case-studies because you are not BSing stuff.
Does this mean your going to do a remake of twitter traffic exposed?
Nice case study. Sometimes too many updates is just too much information for people.
I’m yet to fully understand how to be able to keep up with the flow of tweet updates without straining my eyes. Nice case study anyway.
Great post Ian, that’s a good idea, the more automated you can make your blog post and match with twitter the better the viral marketing effect, I added the tweetmeme “Retweet” this button to all my blog post, been working pretty good too.
Terrance Charles
http://www.thesimplecodemanuscript.com
i use twitter since short time and didn’t try to use another website like TwitterFeed.com , but it works fine for me when i have a new tweet ” i got some traffic without using TwitterFeed.com or others on my comments or posts ” .
I noticed this post was old, but just wondering if you have stopped doing this or not.
I don’t know but it serves different purposes for different blogger. But you did a nice job of listening out to others opinion Sir Ian.
Ron
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i use Twitter for social networking.yes, i agree with you.auto tweet comments are very useful and important to increase traffic and link on your site.
What I honestly hate about Twitter (I don’t usually use it) is the mundane shoutouts that every 5 minutes. I’m annoyed with it because it’s so cluttered. What I did is just to delete my whole Twitter account.
Not bad idea. I never thought about it at all. Always done the auto blog twit only so far. Looks like a great way to get more traffic to our blog. Thanks to twitter.
Great Advice! I was just about to do that process and you
just saved me the time and most importantly the wasted efforts.
Thanks for that!
Hi Ian,
Nice to meet a fellow Filipino online and into
internet marketing. I am currently working for this cool guy
from the US, promoting and driving traffic to his websites.
I am working home-based from Manila. I will definitely pass
your website link around for others here to learn more about
earning online. As young as you and making money on the internet
will surely inspire and encourage more people back home to do
the same.
Will definitely subscribed to your posts. Great job.
More power to you!!!
Either way it goes that still sounds like a good move you made to see the buzz you receive. I say that was a really nice test!
i hate twitter :-/ i see where you were coming from in that it could have brought a lot of traffic.
i think it will be good way to get more traffic and link from other site.nice post dear
Too bad this didn’t out but at least I won’t waste my time and appearance by doing it
I don’t think that it’s necessary, I mean, it just overloads all the other people that follow you
yes,but it makes the low quality of all projects in the web
Like your site, and all the great tips that are mentioned on it,
it has really helped out. Thanks!
I like this idea.I never thought about it at all. Always done the auto blog twit only so far. Looks like a great way to get more traffic to our blog. Thanks to twitter.
thanks for sharing it
I Like your site, and all the great tips that are mentioned on it,
it has really helped out. Thanks!
I can feel that you have put in hard efforts. Good job!!
Ya that’s right he have put in hard efforts.
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