I’ve been given a task where part of it is to Tweet, but I have never used Twitter before and feel completely overwhelmed by how complicated it looks with @s and #s everywhere, half of a conversation on one page and the other half elsewhere! But I want to do my best with it and it’s obviously a popular thing to do, so I wanted to ask how other people use it successfully?
So here is where I am. I understand what hashtags are; I know what trending is; I can login and post etc. So I’m not looking for technical help, just what to say or do, how often to Tweet and ways to get people to engage with us.
Here’s a cheat sheet I found for anyone else interested, but if anyone can elaborate on any points or make comments specific to porn tweeting that’d be good.
Here’s a couple of hints. “Hot black guy sucking dick” in a tweet with a link is boring and probably won’t get a lot of clicks. There’s so much noise on Twitter that most of your tweets won’t even be seen, so you’ve got to make them interesting I find to get decent clicks.
“Whoa! This monster black cock would have me walking funny for a week.” will probably get more interest.
If you’re tweeting about a post involving a sponsor or porn star, do yourself a favour and look up their Twiiter account, then do this:
“Whoa! This monster black cock of @MarcWilliams from @DominicFord would have me walking funny for a week.” If you do that sites and porn stars will often retweet your post and that’ll get you some more traction and followers.
I don’t bother too much with hashtags … sometimes I do.
It seems to me that Twitter is used more as a conversation and less as a means to find content (although obviously that happens as well). Having a blog that auto-publishes a tweet every time you make a post with a link to that post is great for upping your tweet count but more often than not people seem to just glaze right past those. The best feedback I’ve received from Twitter networking (porn and otherwise) has been from a combination of linking and interacting with things other people are saying, and what Dzinerbear said above about looping in pornstars/studios is very true. As is the case in blogging and really any form of social networking, people respond best when it seems like there’s a real person at the other end instead of some kind of porn-generating robot.
You should also know that when you start a tweet with “@someone blah blah” - your followers won’t see your tweet. Only @someone and people who follow you AND @someone can see this tweet.
Some people do a follow friday tweet and start with @someone - which isn’t very usefull. Always start the tweet with text or a hashtag (except when you are directing your tweet to a certain person of course).
There are several great Twitter threads on this board btw…
[QUOTE=pocoloco;125101]You should also know that when you start a tweet with “@someone blah blah” - your followers won’t see your tweet. Only @someone and people who follow you AND @someone can see this tweet.
Some people do a follow friday tweet and start with @someone - which isn’t very usefull. Always start the tweet with text or a hashtag (except when you are directing your tweet to a certain person of course).
There are several great Twitter threads on this board btw…[/QUOTE]
I thought that you only didnt see the tweet if they used the DM function?
However with a DM noone else but the one who receives the tweet is able to see the tweet. Starting a regular tweet with a username shows up in that user’s timeline and to all the users who follow you AND the the user you mention.
To be honest, I’d spend a whole lot more time building tumblrs that worrying about Twitter. I don’t get heaps of traffic from Twitter, maybe 40-50 clicks a day. But my tumblrs are building nice with followers and a lot of those guys can reblog your stuff, which brings more followers.
I put up a picture on one of my tumblrs yesterday and I’ve just checked now (a little more than 24 hours later) 8 people have reblogged that picture (which means my link to the post on the picture is out there 8 more times) and 12 people “loved” the picture.
I have 900 followers on Twitter and got 137 clicks in the last 30 days, I tweet every day.
I have 60 followers on one tumblr and got 237 clicks in the last 30 days, I usually forget to tumblr.
I’ll continue to tweet because it literally takes me 1 minute to do a creative tweet, but the world will eventually figure out that Twitter is a crock and move on. I think in a couple of years we’ll be saying, “Remember Twitter?” just like we say “Remember MySpace?” Twitter is probably great if you want to hang on Justin Bieber’s every word, breath, and fart, but for most of the rest of us, it’s a lot of noise.
I kind of agree. Which is why I’m completely new to Twitter. I’ve always looked at it and thought “nah”.
But having spent the last few days exploring it, I can see some uses. For instance, a financial investor may follow Bloomberg for quick snippets of information. In porn, a keen fan may like to follow their favourite pornstar in the same way a 14 year old girl follows Bieber so keenly. But for affiliates I think it’s simply about not being left out.
Quite often the studio (nextdoorbuddies) and the performers (Brady Jensen and Bryan Cole) will retweet, expanding the audience the tweet is shown to, this will grow the number of followers.
