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| RyanScarp wrote: | | while() wrote: | | RyanScarp wrote: | Can you go into a little more detail about using twitter to your advantage as far as promoting your forum goes?
I'm new to twitter and only have a basic understanding. Right now, I broadcast to #mma , which I believe is my target audience. I put #mma at the beginning of all my tweets. Is this the most effective way?
Any advice is appreciated! |
Imagine twitter as a global SMS, instead of sending your SMS to a single person you send it to everyone who wants to access it. There's a database of all these that people can search, hash tags work in that they "associate" your tweet with a specific thing, so if you send out "#mma this is my mma forum: <link>" then anyone who searches for "#mma" or "mma" or "mma forum" will see this tweet. Hash tags are also used, in part, for the trending topics. If you see in the sidebar it says "Trending topics", these things are the most talked about things on twitter in the past few minutes, so if you and 1000 other people tweeted "#mma this is my forum" it may very well end up as a trending topic - don't try this though, they have stuff to protect people making accounts and doing it. "mma" or "#mma" would be just as effective, however it has become accepted that if you use a hashtag you're providing information on the tweet. So you could just say "this is my mma forum: <link>" and it'd be just as effective as "this is my mma forum: <link> #mma", but it is assumed that hashtags are the "proper" thing to do.
The problem is that very few people are actually going to search for this term on twitter, they're entirely more likely to use google for example, twitter is great for finding out about new discussions and news, not new websites.
I would recommend against spending your time using twitter if your only aim is to get forum members, it really won't work. |
Thanks for the articulate response. For now, I just have twitterfeed active and it'll post a link to the site with every rss tweet. Thanks again for the reply! |
A good thing to do with twitter is, if you run a website, to treat it similar to an RSS Feed, so followers can constantly be up to date with your latest news, I subscribe to quite a few people for this reason. It doesn't bring new members to your forum though, but makes usability much better and will most likely retain them as members - which I personally feel is more important than getting new members.
(not sure why I said that, it seems you're already doing it, but I'll say it anyway because explaining is fun)
Nice way to use it, high five!
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