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8 idées pour (bien) démarrer la semaine | Manager une communauté — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:57:04 +0000

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:00:28 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Darren. And for sharing that. That’s a concern I have, as well.

The great thing about Twitter is that it is what you want it to be, by and large. A lot of people who might follow a blog or even a forum have no idea what RSS is, don’t use a feedreader and don’t want to… but, they do use Twitter and would like to be notified of new content there.

So, these accounts can create value. Though, I agree that, generally speaking, an account will definitely benefit from increased individual participation.

Thanks,

Patrick

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:06:45 +0000

Hm interesting. I wouldn’t personally follow anyone who was simply churning out automatic tweets from their forum. The main concern for me would be that you do not have control of what is being published.

I always ask questions, and this gets people interacting with me. Interestingly, if I leave a link to a post that I have written this gets an average 60-150 clicks depending on if it’s RTd.

General without posting, I get 40-60 visitors a day via Twitter.

I use cli.gs to track this.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:33:32 +0000

Hey, cool. Thanks. :)

By: Joey Logano Fan

Joey Logano Fan — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:25:22 +0000

I am fairly new to twitter, I don’t have a twitter account for just my “forum” but more of a general fan type of twitter. I’ve begun to follow you now… =D

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:09:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing that, Eric.

By: Eric Martindale

Eric Martindale — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:12:22 +0000

Yeah, we created RolePlayGateway’s Twitter account to make announcements and promote to our existing memberbase, but the very nature of Twitter has really opened us up to adding more targeted users. The level of communication is great, and we can easily respond to feedback and social trends. Even non-members participate in Twitter, so our group of Twitter users literally becomes an extension of our site – even if they don’t visit the forums.