The Twitter Experiment

The Power of Reading – The Twitter Experiment Update

I have officially begun my Twitter Experiment where I will attempt to increase blog traffic from, and by effectively using, Twitter. (read more about what prompted it here)

Last night I made my first “non-selfish” Tweet.

Reading @problogger How Listening to a Waiter can Jack your Profits up 33% – http://is.gd/MFXh

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Using Twitter to Effectively Grow Your Blog Traffic – Confessions of a Twitter Spammer

This post comes in response to two articles I have read recently: Tech blogging, missing something? at ChristopherMarkSmith.com and the other is How Not to Promote Your Blog: Top 10 Broken Blog Promotion Strategies at ProBlogger.net. In Chris’s article he makes the following point in regards to social media:

The market for using these new types of technologies is still growing and is rather fresh for most companies. Many businesses do not use the social media and web apps at all to market or make their businesses run more efficiently, mostly because no one is laying it out for them in a fun and easy way.

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