I’m officially a Twitter believer. In checking traffic from last month, the microblogging platform overtook MSN search as the No. 6 driver of traffic to Cheezhead.
What’s more, Twitter-generated traffic looked at almost twice as many pages, stuck around about 4 minutes longer and bounced 12 percent less than visitors from the nation’s third largest search engine.
Up until recently, much of my defense for using and loving Twitter was anecdotal. Not anymore. The numbers don’t lie. If Twitter isn’t part of your marketing strategy, it probably should.
Popularity: 11% [?]
May 1st, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Jason Alba and Paul DeBettignies shamed me into trying Twitter. Signed up this week. I’m at http://www.Twitter.com/StevenRothberg. I hope our results prove to be as good as yours.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 am
joel, I reread your defense for using twitter and I am convinced against my will! It’s not the traffic — it’s the rationale which is dead on.
So where did you win your domain and care to tell what domain you won?
May 7th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I twitter too – sometimes and sometimes I forget! More and more I am reading about people twittering – it will be interesting to see where it takes us.
January 26th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I read this article on TechCrunch today full of Twitter tips: http://tinyurl.com/cs6nkv
I started using twitter a few weeks ago… I love the brevity! It seems like a quick way to connect with people with similar interests too. Searching twitter really gives you a pulse for what people are talking about. My telecommuting tweets are here:
http://www.twitter.com/telesaur
Hey, Joel… any other suggestions for Twitter use beyond that TechCrunch article? Great post, thanks.