I've noticed similar results from Twitter. I've only got about 1/3rd as many followers as you on my primary account but follower count has been growing fairly steadily and organically (ie., I haven't been doing mass follows or contests or anything like that). I've had some worthwhile engagements with other users but Twitter has been terrible as a traffic generation tool.
It doesn't seem terribly hard to grow follower counts for their own sake, but I'd love to hear stories about if and how others are successful with Twitter. (Where success is measured by a metric that has value outside of the Twitter-verse.)
I RT'ed that original tweet from @duckduckgo but it doesn't show up on the twitter search page; is that because my tweets are protected? Also, I saw at least one retweet which was from someone who retweeted because of me ...
All this to say, your stats are likely a bit off ... so take it all with a pinch of salt :)
Yes. Can you imagine the furore if you could find people's protected tweets by merely doing a search? (I seem to recall, however, that they did accidentally allow this for a while when they bought the search service from Summize.)
Thx--that's weird. However, I took the internal RT counts from twitter itself (they tell you how many times it was retweeted), so if you literally hit 'retweet' I should have gotten it.
Additionally, the end metric that really matters is clicks, which I was able to count correctly, and which were of course not thrilling :(.
Always use hashtags with care. While they can sometimes help a tweet make it into specialized aggregators, overuse or unnecessary usage can make a tweet look spammy or insincere.
I've launched a website dedicated to tracking responses on twitter. You will be surprised on the stuff that mostly gets retweeted, so I think your request was simply not interesting to the many.
My website is http://topytalk.com, it has few limitations: displaying only tweets with at least one reply, and missing about 20-40% of all tweets due to technical limits.
Hard to sum up in a few words, but one scenario is quite noticeable: the most retweets come from a group sharing similar interests, they basically retweet just for the sake of making this interest into a trend.
I've noticed similar results from Twitter. I've only got about 1/3rd as many followers as you on my primary account but follower count has been growing fairly steadily and organically (ie., I haven't been doing mass follows or contests or anything like that). I've had some worthwhile engagements with other users but Twitter has been terrible as a traffic generation tool.
It doesn't seem terribly hard to grow follower counts for their own sake, but I'd love to hear stories about if and how others are successful with Twitter. (Where success is measured by a metric that has value outside of the Twitter-verse.)