Twitter is More Than a Geek’s Playground Now

As you can see from the graph above, Twitter has continued to grow from half a million unique visitors a month to around three and a half million unique visitors a month according to Compete (I know Compete isn’t 100% accurate).  Another interesting fact about this graph is that it’s only talking about people that actually visit twitter.com and not all the people out there that are using Twitter applications like Twhirl or TweetDeck to manage, read, and post tweets.

So what exactly do I mean by the title of this post?  It’s simple really….Twitter, in my opinion, is starting to break out into the mainstream…No longer is it a tool or service that the tech savvy are using.  More people are starting to understand it’s uses, functions, and helpfulness.  I only believe this will continue to be the case and before long twitter will become an extremely powerful tool (not that it isn’t already!) to reach out to your visitors.  So what does this mean for you?

This means that now is the time to get yourself a Twitter Account, if you don’t already have one, and start building a network of your friends, peers, and readers that can help promote your content to their friends, peers, and readers!

I know…here’s what you’re thinking…

Derek, I’m signed up with several other Social Media sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, and Facebook…Why do I need to sign up with Twitter as well?  This is actually quite simple to answer… Twitters traffic is golden, it converts well and twitter users stick around unlike most other Social Media traffic.  They become avid readers, subscribe to your RSS Feed and Newsletters, and more!  Want proof?

• Shoemoney wrote a great post talking about the traffic that he was receiving after using Twitter for four months and how the quality of the traffic was.  It beat out his Organic Results traffic in terms of quality!!!

• Click Consultants last month had 371 visits from Twitter (Yes I know that’s not tons, but I’ve only started recently using Twitter myself), average time spent on this site was 3mins 19secs, and each person viewed an average of 2.78 pageviews.

As you can see, the traffic from twitter is something that, in my experience, no other social media site or service has been able to provide me or others in this field.

So if you aren’t using Twitter, you need to sign up today and get moving.  If you are using Twitter, make sure that you are working on building your profile up, getting followers, etc.  How you ask?  I’ll be talking about this in my next post so make sure you subscribe to my RSS Feed so you don’t miss it!

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