This weekend I spent quite a bit of time reading. I found some new RSS feeds and like the good little reader I started flicking through them picking out stuff I found interesting. Gradually as I did I began to think some of this stuff would be interesting to my twitter followers so I started to line up tweets for posting and started releasing them about 4 or 5 and hour.
I set this up to run for a couple of hours and then once they had completed I read some more and set-up some more tweets to send out.
To be honest it really just started as a test of TweetDecks Scheduled tweet function. I'd never used it before and wanted to see how it worked but after a little while I wanted to test a couple of things out.
Questions
1. How many clicks could I generate through to things I posted?
2. How many followers would follow my tweets and what would the quality be like?
3. How many posts could I make in 2 days?
4. Would people RT and Fav the tweets I sent out?
Sorry no snazzy infographics here just numbers but I hope you find the numbers alone interesting.
Answers
1. Clicks. I use bit.ly Pro and have my own domain set-up so this was reasonably easy to check.
- Saturday 99 Clicks
- Sunday 176 Clicks
- Monday 92 Clicks
- Total: 367
- Friday 390
- Saturday 397: +7
- Sunday 401: +4
- Monday 407: +6
- Total Growth: +17
- 8 seem to be Human / Companies I mentioned
- 9 bots / hash tag followers
3. How many Tweets. I've excluded some all the non link out tweets.
- Total: 56
- Fave: 17
- RT: 10
So I would say all in all I think it went very well. I got more followers in a short space of time that i have ever before. I got more Fav posts than ever before and more RTs in such a short space of time than ever before.
I tweet more than most but no where near as often as some people and to be honest just the shear number of articles I read over the weekend took it out of me let alone trying to write something interesting about all the links I was posting.
As I discussed on twitter earlier today I think more focused and much less is the way forward but it was interesting to see how it went for a short space of time.
Can you annoy people and loose followers? Yes! Again earlier today and after all the tweets had been sent I asked what people thought of my experiment. Here are some of the responses.
Me: I spent the weekend posting a loads of links to stuff I found interesting. Did everyone enjoy/find it interesting or should I stop?
@drobar: @billywizz It was interesting but overwhelming and very wide-ranging. I would have to unfollow you if you keep up that rate
@JayGreasley: @drobar @billywizz +1
@mattbrailsford: @billywizz agree with @drobar. Was interesting, but a little too much at once. Find a focus, and just plan to tweet less but regular.
@peteduncanson: @billywizz stop. You came across like a spam bot. Although you gain some followers are they quality ones. Nice experiment though.
So there we have it. Don't piss off people you like. Don't Tweet like a spam bot. Keep your tweets in context or at least focused.
Last but not least
It seems the most interesting post I made was about user testing. I guess everyone else has the same problem with this one.
@billywizz: Great list of UX Testing tools http://t.itsux.com/lgwXAZ #usability #usertesting #cardsorting
8 x Fav
6 x RT
59 Clicks
1 comments:
Yeah I believe the socialization of the tweets really does matter when posting these things. I'd not really thought of time as such an important thing but I guess you're right.
During the experiment I was very aware that more people would see what was being posted when the US was awake. I don't have the number break down for the times of day unfortunately.
I'll continue to experiment and if I find anything else that's interesting I'll do an update.
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