Lately I've been getting about 3 new followers a day from Twitter, but though some of them come visit the forum when I tweet something interesting, only one has bothered to join so far. (And that was after I direct messaged him and invited him to put his link in his sig and Twitter username/feed in his profile.) Do you manage to successfully convert your Twitter followers into visitors and members? How?
I created a Twitter account that takes automatic posts from the forums, plus I put manual updates in there when I can. All I've got is a load of porn spammers following me, and since block no longer works I am stuck with them.
Twitter has brought a lot of traffic for me - I get plenty of visitors every time I make a Tweet when a new thread is posted, but I rarely get new registrations from it. Every once in a while I get the new member that puts "Twitter" in the "How did you find us?" box - but not often.
do you mark your tweets with brands? like if you're saying blah blah blah blah blah apples then whatever but if you say blah blah blah blah blah apples #fruit people searching "fruit" will have you in that feed
How often do your followers retweet the information posted from your forum? How often do you post interesting links into your forum? How many followers do your followers have?
No, at least not yet. I'm experimenting with it on Ice Cream Forum, and if I figure out how to be successful at it I'll start trying it with other forums.
I wonder if it would be beneficial to create an individual Twitter account for each community, though. Is there any real advantage to doing so (besides being more organized)?
That and only delivering relevant info. Like if she was tweeting for her disabled in ny forum and her ice cream people were following her they'd probably not care as much and vice versa (not to say that ice cream lovers don't care about disabled people and that disabled people don't like ice cream). I use Twitter multi account manager & brand monitor | Splitweet to keep track of all of my accounts. Just check or uncheck each account and start tweeting
I think I'll give it a shot, then. I'd rather keep my personal Twitter account as it is, without all of the forum-related information mixed in.
Thanks for that link, Tryfuhl. I have created Twitter accounts for several forums (if for no other reason then to make sure the name is reserved) and might just start adding them all to that service now.
Re-tweeting is important. With good people, they will usually re-tweet your tweets if you re-tweet their tweets (say that five times fast! :lol. If you help them, they help you kind-of thing. It's very powerful as well. I have had some of my tweets re-tweeted by somebody who has over 10,000 followers and I got some decent activity. Of his 10k followers, many of them RTed it and it went on-and-on. Very powerful stuff when you have the right followers.
