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Use Twitter Lists to Manage Your Click Ring (a.k.a. Followers)
Nov 9th
This guy is following exactly 2000 people…
If you are an online marketer using Twitter and that you have 30k followers and are following almost as much or more people, you probably believe that Followers are good for the following reasons:
- By having a large Follower-base you look credible as a marketer;
- They make you look like a social media expert, which you most probably claim to be (and maybe you are…maybe social media is about spamming);
- They click on those bit.ly links you add to your Tweets, which you probably sold to people as a way of increasing traffic to their website;
- Retweet exchange, i.e. you both retweet each other; and
- Click on those ads in those bit.ly links you add to you Tweets, which is your personal website. Of course you do the same thing for them because only you click ring members click on your adds.
An invitation to exchange retweets…how social!
If this is your case, Twitter just wants you to know that it cares about you. After all, you are the ones producing all those tweets. They are very thankful and thus serve you with this useful new function: Twitter Lists. Twitter understands that nobody can manage hundreds or thousands of followers. Tools are needed to be able to classify and sometimes send targeted messages to followers. Twitter Lists will just do that. I mean you need the right tools to deal with those thousands of clicks you have to perform in a day in order to make a decent living. Well, Twitter is empathetic to your needs and offers Twitter lists: the best way to manage all those who follow you because you follow them! Twitter doesn’t want you to go out there and use another Twitter application. Stay with Twitter: they’ll treat you well.
Thanks to Twitter lists, those followers who are members of your click-ring can be a listed apart so you know that you have to go there and click on their Google ads from time to time. If you have a deal with some of your followers to click on their bit-ly links so it looks like his Twitter strategy is generating traffic, then you might wanna put them in a list apart too.
I think all inbound marketers should be happy with Twitter lists.
Twitter a Legit Click Ring?
Aug 2nd
Reading about Twitter etiquette, I come across the follow-back principle of Twitter. This principle states that you should, as a sign of good gesture, follow back someone that is following you. Well, doesn’t that make you see all his tweets, which means that you can click on his/her links?
Looking at the bigger picture of Twitter’s leader/follower concept, it can be viewed as a phenomenon that has the same effect as a click ring, i.e. a group of people that click on each others’ affiliated ads. Of course, this wasn’t the initial intention behind Twitter and most people are using the service as a way of being updated with what is happening around them. But the fact remains that every time I follow someone who follows me, the possibility is there for me to direct my follower to links that I update my status with. The final result of this phenomenon is that Twitter becomes configured in the same way as a click ring. Matter of fact, it is a very optimized click ring because people ending up clicking on links are not always the same, which makes detecting the click ring more difficult.