If you saw me post this on Twitter, you probably noticed that it, like everything I tweet that comes from one of my blogs, was preceded by the word “blogged.” That little word is designed to give you a heads up that what I am sending out is coming directly from me and is not some link I found elsewhere. Some other tweeters indicate this by putting “New blog post” or other similar phrase before their tweets as well.
But is that necessary?
Theory #1: Yes! People who follow me value my opinion and are more likely to click on a link I tweet if they know it is coming from me direct and isn’t just something I found.
Theory #2: No! People who follow you value what you tweet out and are probably already following your blogs so it is pointless to distinguish.
Theory #3: People are more likely to click on your links if they DON’T think they are from your own blog. Knowing that you were the one that wrote it makes it seem less official somehow.
I have gone back and forth on this in my head and all of the above seem plausible. In fact, my main @hillarydepiano account is the only one where I do distinguish my posts from the other posts that I tweet out.
So here is where you come in. I am genuinely curious what people think on this. When you see one of the people you follow designate that the next link is theirs does that make you more likely or less likely to click it? Let me know your reasoning.
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On my @moviecollector account I tweet out blog posts from all the other movie bloggers as well as my own. Early in that accounts life I found myself continually patted on the back for writing such great posts when they weren’t mine, just great posts by other bloggers that I felt worth sharing–this would necessitate another Tweet, and @reply saying something like “Thanks, but that was so and so’s post.” It was even a little embarrassing if I was getting congrats on posts written by other Twitter friends!
I tinkered with the wording and have found adding “What I’m reading” in front of others posts and “My latest post” in front of my own causes the least confusion for my Twitter friends.
Thanks, Cliff
.-= Cliff Aliperti´s last blog ..Patting Myself on the Back: Feedback #10,000 on eBay =-.
On my @moviecollector account I tweet out blog posts from all the other movie bloggers as well as my own. Early in that accounts life I found myself continually patted on the back for writing such great posts when they weren’t mine, just great posts by other bloggers that I felt worth sharing–this would necessitate another Tweet, and @reply saying something like “Thanks, but that was so and so’s post.” It was even a little embarrassing if I was getting congrats on posts written by other Twitter friends!
I tinkered with the wording and have found adding “What I’m reading” in front of others posts and “My latest post” in front of my own causes the least confusion for my Twitter friends.
Thanks, Cliff
.-= Cliff Aliperti´s last blog ..Patting Myself on the Back: Feedback #10,000 on eBay =-.
I guess this isn’t something I have ever thought about because if it is not from me it is generally re-tweeted.
Theory #4
People who follow you are often in mad pursuit of numbers of followers and don’t give a rats behind what you tweet, or even look at it the majority of the time.
Just sign me cynical and bless Phaedra who turned me onto TweetDeck so I can find the tweets I want to read, including yours!
I guess this isn’t something I have ever thought about because if it is not from me it is generally re-tweeted.
Theory #4
People who follow you are often in mad pursuit of numbers of followers and don’t give a rats behind what you tweet, or even look at it the majority of the time.
Just sign me cynical and bless Phaedra who turned me onto TweetDeck so I can find the tweets I want to read, including yours!
I agree with Cliff’s comment that you should make it clear if it is yours or someone else’s post. I would click on it if I knew it was from you Hillary because I find your perspective very knowledgeable and interesting to me.
Thank you very much Nancy, I appreciate the compliment! 🙂
I agree with Cliff’s comment that you should make it clear if it is yours or someone else’s post. I would click on it if I knew it was from you Hillary because I find your perspective very knowledgeable and interesting to me.
Thank you very much Nancy, I appreciate the compliment! 🙂
I wrote this post almost 5 years ago to the day and I am still agonizing over this today. I just had to point that out.