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homejobsforyou
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2009 11:49
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Hi,
Those of you that use Twitter for the purpose of driving traffic to your site. Is worth the time and effort?
-Jay
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Matt Zenittini
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2009 12:43
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Not in my mind ^^. I left it after a few months. It DOES help with branding and keeping in touch with your CURRENT list though =].
-Matt
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Barb Thornback
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# Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:59
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I have been dissappointed with Twitter.
I have thousands of followers and had great expectations.
I would say it is not worth the time and effort. There are more productive ways of getting traffic.
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johnjimat
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# Posted: 10 Aug 2009 13:18
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yes it worth my time. it give me traffic and lead. dont just tweet about your business in twitter. Use it like you use other social media to connect to your friend. provide some good tweet for your follower and try to Retweet them as they provide some good info 
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FreeCashMan
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# Posted: 10 Aug 2009 15:38
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Yes, it can be, but as noted you can just be "spamming" you biz opp. Set up a blog that has info about your biz opp and then tweet your post. Give the twitters some substance, sometime.
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TyBrown
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2009 00:13
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If it's done right it works great. It earns my wife and I several thousand every month.
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truby
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# Posted: 14 Aug 2009 12:23
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I get some traffic Twitter because my Ezine articles are automatically posted on Twitter from the back office of Ezine articles. So that doesn't take any effort at all. I only spend time clicking on followers and so forth, but hopefully I will start to convert so of my traffic.
Truby
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nanlar
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# Posted: 16 Aug 2009 21:17
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I agree you just can't advertiseyou won't get much out of it. You really have to make friends just as you use this forum or any other.
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TshirtFrank
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# Posted: 16 Aug 2009 23:06
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I like twitter and I believe that it has its uses. I have about 5k followers and it does help to direct traffic to different sites. Like everyone is saying though, it is a community and is best if you engage and use @ responses and RT often as well.
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debbystewart
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2009 03:32
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I agree that it is hard to get traffic from Twitter. I have a big follower list, close to 1000. However, getting anyone to click on any link on my tweets are almost impossible. On a good day, I get about 5 twitter referrals at the most.
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2009 06:16
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Hi Jay,
As with anything else, it depends upon how well you use Twitter and how good your site is.
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elle14
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2009 10:28
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Twitter can give you a traffic if you handle it properly. It seems like twitter is full of spammer. 
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johnjimat
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 13:31
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just use twitter to tweet what the new thing you are doing, and not just the tweet the same thing that people will ignore
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robinincarolina
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2009 10:46
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I get a few hits a week, maybe 8-10 and its the ezine thing with me as well. I do tweet a few times a week nothing about business at all. Don't use it that much. Only about 200 followers and I have noticed a lot of spam. I end up with a lot of people who have a business in a box following me and I prefer to stay away from that.
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shmeeko69
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2009 11:21
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I think too many people are buying into the Twitter/Facebook thing & if you start reporting your movements & hopefully get followers & visitors to your business & a few sales from it, then all the best.
Personally I have weighed up the pro's & con's & feel that If I devote to much time to the social networking sites, I'll end up feeling like a Twit !
Mark
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2009 13:45
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shmeeko69: Personally I have weighed up the pro's & con's & feel that If I devote to much time to the social networking sites, I'll end up feeling like a Twit !
Hi Mark,
That and you won't have time for your own site.
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dula14
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# Posted: 26 Aug 2009 17:08
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I use Twitter mainly to network and follow those who have knowledge in my areas of interest. The traffic is moderate at best. I've received a lot of program offers claiming to "show how to explode your twitter traffic" but have yet to take the time for a closer look. Anybody know if any of these twitter traffic programs actually work?
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# Posted: 31 Aug 2009 10:02
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I monitor twitter traffic to my website forum, and posting 1 link to a particular news item on it brings about 40 or so visitors straight away. whether or not they are robots I dont know but it definetely does bring traffic if you have followers.
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elle14
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# Posted: 3 Sep 2009 08:16
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It depends on how you gonna handled it. Well honestly, I get some 13% traffic using twitter. We all know that twitter is full of spamming. And some user don't follow those account who's obviously going to sell anything. It has a technique when you want to get success in twitter. And it really needs effort and time.. It's up to you if you want to stick with twitter.
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daniel
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# Posted: 7 Sep 2009 01:41
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Haven't tried to use for the promotion of my site..think I'll try
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joanpeterson
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# Posted: 7 Sep 2009 11:03
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dula14: Anybody know if any of these twitter traffic programs actually work?
I would not use any of those twitter traffic programs. Buying from traffic programs will just take money out of your pocket and not deliver anything useful.
Buying twitter traffic would be the same as buying traffic to your website - and most here will know that that is a waste of money.
So Twitter can work - but you need to create something of value to get Twitter members to follow you.
Again, do NOT use traffic programs.
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moneymaker1008
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# Posted: 7 Sep 2009 12:48
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joanpeterson: I would not use any of those twitter traffic programs. Buying from traffic programs will just take money out of your pocket and not deliver anything useful. Buying twitter traffic would be the same as buying traffic to your website - and most here will know that that is a waste of money. So Twitter can work - but you need to create something of value to get Twitter members to follow you. Again, do NOT use traffic programs.
I agree completely. They will get you followers but not targeted followers, just like traffic programs will get you traffic but not targeted traffic.
If you use one, most of your followers will be spammers.
-Danielle
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# Posted: 5 Oct 2009 15:22
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Twitter is okay if handled correctly. Every marketing strategy has its pros and cons but when a marketing strategy is well thought and well executed, traffic will certainly come.
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VictoriaNTC
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# Posted: 5 Oct 2009 20:28
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I pretty much think it is best to only follow those who post updates/Tweets you are truly interested in.
I mean, there are people who are following thousands of others ..that would just clutter my mind and dilute the purpose.
Following that many only to return the favor...it would be best to filter.
I do love Twitter though.
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moneymaker1008
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VictoriaNTC: I pretty much think it is best to only follow those who post updates/Tweets you are truly interested in. I mean, there are people who are following thousands of others ..that would just clutter my mind and dilute the purpose. Following that many only to return the favor...it would be best to filter. I do love Twitter though.
Exactly how I feel. Plus, there's no way you can keep up with all of them so you can't really interact and meet people in your niche if you are following that many people.
-Danielle
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Jean LA
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# Posted: 6 Oct 2009 19:58
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Twitter can be used extensively by just adding visitors to your website. There are also people having business solely on twitter. Great tweet post and catchy words I think is the key to this.
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