Comments on: 84% of People Would Prefer More Blog Readers than Twitter Followers

By: Inchirieri Masini

Inchirieri Masini — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:38:42 +0000

Hello people! This article was very usefull to me. I will come back frequently.

By: How To Leverage Twitter To Help You?

How To Leverage Twitter To Help You? — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:40:00 +0000

People need to understand that Twitter is not only a marketing tool. It wasn’t designed for that and I think that’s a good thing.

You can leverage Twitter in so many ways, it’s an endless stream of ideas. For instance, I had some problems with my blog’s theme and I turned to Twitter. Guess what? I got my problem fixed AND I doubled the # of my followers.

Check out my blog for the whole story.

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By: ZK@WebTrafficROI.com

ZK@WebTrafficROI.com — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:42:04 +0000

This one was expected but with such a huge margin was not at all expected by me at least.

Seems to me that Twitter have to prove itself a lot to win this race.

By: Merry

Merry — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:24:47 +0000

Very well put Stephanie. It is a def. for more blog readers. Twitter is like one-liners and thousands to sift through…..even tho’ they are coming out with some cool stuff it is still quite the process and nobody really gets to know you or what you are about, do they?

By: CsaAffiliates

CsaAffiliates — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:53:43 +0000

Grate article, I do agree with the statement. Twitter, for me, is like melted butter and the blog is the lobster. Interesting comparison; However, it dose seam that one is more how your doing social environment were the other offers the same but gives you more ability to monetize your presence.

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acai supplements — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:31:17 +0000

Blog readers for the most part actually read your material. Twitter followers are lucky to see a couple of your posts a week.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:42:26 +0000

I would have been surprised if the majority would have been Twitter followers. I think this quote in your blog sums it up quite nicely: “That’s like asking a newspaper: Would you rather have someone read your headlines or your stories?” – Jamie Littlefield

By: Vu Tong

Vu Tong — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:51:21 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree with the results of this poll. There’s this waving momentum of hype building around Twitter and how effective it is at being a marketing tool.

But so far, I have yet to see any new bloggers relying on Twitter, showing any substantial results based on the claims of how effective it is, from established bloggers.

Does twitter really live up to the hype?

By: Ricardo @ NurtureYourWealth

Ricardo @ NurtureYourWealth — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:28:22 +0000

Blog Readers are like the brick foundation for a successful blog, thanks for posting some numbers on your stats approach!

By: Parth

Parth — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:06:23 +0000

Email subscribers – oh wait, that isn’t an option. Once again, it depends on what your goals are. If you’re just trying create a fun blog with a massive readership and perhaps bank some money off of private ad sales, then yes blog subs are the way to go. But email newsletters subs should have been an option up there. Maybe in the future you can do a poll with all three options.

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heartburn solutions — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:00:05 +0000

both is great tools for making networking…..mix for getting good result

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:09:01 +0000

Blog readers. I’d much rather have more blog readers.

By: IncreaseSalesCoach

IncreaseSalesCoach — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:59:06 +0000

Great idea Darren. As another reader commented you probably knew the results before you asked.

However, you demonstrate your blogging prowess by using a tool that engages your readers.

Engaged readers = loyal readers = strong relationships = sales

Kudos to you!

By: Carla

Carla — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:41:27 +0000

I definitely prefer blog readers because I can convey information to my blog readers that I can’t do in a 140 character Tweet.

Overall, I utilize both tools, but if I had to choose, it would be blogging.

By: Dalton Hurd

Dalton Hurd — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:04:29 +0000

Well, it makes sense to want more actual blog readers, than Twitter readers. The main focus is your blog, and the activity in Twitter is just to further your network marketing of your blog. Unless of course, your blog revolves around Twitter, in which case you’ll probably want more Twitter readers.

By: Drezz

Drezz — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:57:53 +0000

Personally, I think it’s all dependent on the depth of your activity.

If you’re blogging about personal stuff and not into monetization and its a casual thing, its a lot easier to get your points across more effectively by blasting it through twitter and having people follow and comment back.

If you’re trying to do something worthwhile with a blog and provide a “service” through your sharing of knowledge, you’d definitely want more blog readers.

Both are great tools – twitter is great for sending info to people with short attention spans. Blogs are great if you’re spreading the wealth to people who can afford the time.

By: Bariski

Bariski — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:56:30 +0000

Same here. I have always preferred sites with more readers than twitter followers. I keep twitter for my personal updates as to when m sleeping and waking up, going out ….

But after seeing these results hmm look likes I have to change my tweets to blog updates also :P

Anyway thanks for sharing this vital info, will come in handy to me :D

Regards
Tutzone

By: roentarre

roentarre — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:28:52 +0000

Though your data is useful. Your target audience are mainly bloggers. So the results are skewed towards prefering blog readers

By: Kenny Laurie

Kenny Laurie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:25:27 +0000

I would much rather people read my posts as in a post you are delivering content as is more thought out, information based and more researched and to get more readers is a vindication of your time and effort.

Whereas with Twitter, 1. I think it will pass as a trend, 2. The ticker goes round so quick that you could say the meaing of life and only a handful of people would pick it up and finally 3. very little care and attention go into most tweets and it is easy to have your voice drowned out.

By: Data Recovery

Data Recovery — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:39:32 +0000

In my opinion, the numbers that follow a person and yet ignore their tweets are significantly higher than those that subscribe but dont take interest to read through.