Comments on: How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:43:30 +0000

Not sure if anyone has posted this yet.

WordPress Tweeter automatically tweets new posts to your blog:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-t...

Came across it today while fixing up my blog and thought of your post.

By: Leonid S. Knyshov

Leonid S. Knyshov — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:21:10 +0000

Try this as a reverse – I subscribed to you in RSS first and then followed you on Twitter. I follow about 1600 people (automated feeds are followed by my second account to avoid cluttering my RSS reader).

I went as far as building my own tweet scheduler when I was heavily interested in promoting my various sites and meting new people. My #FF stream was quite unique (over 100 strategically spaced tweets with somewhat randomized timing). Since then, it's a bit of a quiet manual stream for now as I am very busy and focused with my current startup and suspended all of my distracting secondary projects.

Fred Wilson's comment on only tweeting at 7am Pacific explains why I never see his tweets.

I found 4hr intervals to be optimal. Don't forget to schedule a tweet for the nightowls. The stream is quite static around 2am Pacific and many tweets catch my attention.

By: nivi

nivi — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:17:43 +0000

You definitely want to tweet important things multiple times. We were in the WSJ. I tweeted it several times. Every time, it was like I had never tweeted it in the first place. The response kept getting bigger. Focus on delivering value to your readers and they won't mind. Complaints just mean they care.

By: Conor

Conor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:54:28 +0000

At the very beginning of my twitter existance, Guy was one of my first people to follow. I stopped following after about a week because 50% of the tweet stream was him. I follow him again now because I have searches set up for the things that I am interested in within my tweet stream. I think 1 tweet is too few as it is such a transient service… but perhaps number 2, 3, 4 can highlight different aspects – an interesting new comment, another aspect of the core idea etc

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:31:29 +0000

Mark, As a follower of yours I am fine with you tweeting the same article twice. I find your posts valuable and understand that you need to do it for increased distribution. If you would like to tweet it for the third time, how about using the quote approach of Nivi's or even quoting a phrase from a comment you find will be of value to readers (I try to go through the comments. A few end up being of value).

By: Mark Burdette

Mark Burdette — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:54:17 +0000

Thanks Mark for your post. Your comments and the comments of others on a topic that has been on the top of my mind has caused me to reevaluate my approach. Thank you and to your community of followers for that as I am always trying to fine tune my approach and be more effective in reaching people and sharing information. I am sensitive to the over-tweeting myself. My question to you, since I am a relatively new follower of yours, how much time do you spend and how often do you tweet your own content and the content of others? Have you found a good balance that works for you and your followers?

By: thomsinger

thomsinger — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:49:18 +0000

I think Twitter is a horrible communications tool…. but one that I and others still love to use. I agree that you need to have multiple tweets to be noticed by the majority of you followers, as they do not all see them if they are not looking at that time. Having them at different times of days is key. So many people now use groups, that many followers never even see anything you do anyway.

Guy K has a great attitude about Twitter… if you do not like what he Tweets or how often he tweets, then he suggests you unfollow him. I feel the same way, and believe if I am just part of the “noise”, then dump my ass.

In the end, other social media is a two way contract to “linking” and “Friending”… but with Twitter I can follow you and you need not follow me. So if someone is not using the tool the way you appreciate… move on.

thom singer

By: ThelegalRN

ThelegalRN — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:07:56 +0000

Sorry for the link screw up. Here is my blog link: http://legalrn.blogspot.com Any critique would be appreciated. Thanks again.

By: ThelegalRN

ThelegalRN — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:04:28 +0000

Nice post. I had my blog connected to twitter so every time I post it would be "tweeted". I recently changed the format of my blog with more content and links as multiple pages on word, so in essence people are getting 2-3 times the information as before yet it comes down to only 3-4 posts with huge amounts of content. Before I was posting 15-20 posts a day that would directly go to twitter. I was getting 4-5 twitter followers a day. Now I only get a couple a week. I just added the tweet/re-tweet next to my posts hoping this will help. Should I go back to the old style or continue with the said format. I am trying to build up a blog following (presently only 1,500 hits a month) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Respectfully, The Legal RN-http://legalrn.blogspot.com

By: Donna Brewington White

Donna Brewington White — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:03:05 +0000

If I'm following you on Twitter it is because I think you have something valuable to contribute and I want to access this. This means I WANT to know when you have something new to share on your blog and if you tweet it just once, I am likely to miss it since I follow over 2000 people and spend less than an average of an hour a day on Twitter. When I see up to three tweets about the same post strategically timed, I understand what you are doing and it will not bother me. It is very unlikely that I will see all three tweets anyway unless I specifically go over to your profile page.

I think some people are using the term "spamming" a bit too loosely here.

Guy is tweeting so often (and by proxy) that four tweets about his blog does not seem like a lot. I don't think people choose not to follow him because of how often he tweets about his blog, but because of how often he tweets period.