Twitter Vs RSS
So here’s an interesting concept: Is Twitter more effective than RSS subscribers for your branding? We believe the answer is yes. Twitter is a quick and easy ‘hack’ to get your name out there. While you still get your opinion through to people, it doesn’t require the reader to go through a ton of posts on your blog, it’ll only take them 2 seconds to read your 140 characters on a twitter notification. Twitter is instant delivery and very dynamic. All you need to do is make sure that your short twitter blurb is catchy enough for someone to go and read your post, same as it is with the headlines of your blog posts. Ever messed up a headline, published your post, only to have to go into feedburner and resync your feed, hoping nobody has pulled the feed yet so they won’t notice your crappy headline? With Twitter you can instantly retweet yourself with a better line without any hassle.
Following someone on twitter is very simple, you click follow and you’re done, while with RSS you often have to go through 2 or 3 more steps, like picking your reader of choice, confirming your subscription, verification etc. Like we said, its way more dynamic. Our twitter client of choice would be Twhirl, it works on everything, running on Adobe’s AIR platform, and it is constantly getting improved with new features.
The following doesn’t really have an relevance to the comparison of Twitter Vs RSS, but it show that Twitter is definitely something you should be using as a tool to market yourself in the blogosphere.
Using Twitter the right way will generate some great traffic to your site. Here’s an example: Jason Calacanis has a huge following on twitter (no idea why, he seems to have a 99:1 Mahalo spam:interesting stuff ratio) and whenever he links somewhere, there are 20,000 potential new visitors involved. BeBizzy posted about Calacanis and the power of Twitter, Jason then picked up on it (probably has Google Alerts on his name, hi Jason!) and sent out one twitter message, linking back to the article. We went right in and left a first comment. We instantly received 40 visitors from BeBizzy, so we’re pretty sure BeBizzy must have received at least 400 visitors in a matter of minutes.
Twitter has gone mainstream, and not having a twitter account these days is like not having an email address! You can follow us at http://www.twitter.com/johncow, and for the latest updates, check our sidebar widget. We use twitter to announce stuff like when we’re going on live video stream again and such, so you can schedule your lunch breaks around our broadcasting time 
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I still don’t get the point of Twitter, warming to it though, slowly.
BTW when is the next Ustream show?
Wow, those are some high expectations there….are minions now?
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This is an interesting idea. I think that RSS is a better gauge of your success, because you can basically impose your will on other Twitter users and it is endlessly easier to pick up followers than it is RSS subscribers.
But on the other hand, Twitter is a lot more practical than RSS and people do get a better sense about who you are, as you mentioned.
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I haven’t started twittering yet but I signed up for an account this morning. I’m not sure what to expect because it’s hard to wade through the hype.
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I set up an account on twitter, but I haven’t done anything with it. This post reminded me of it, and I am off to touch it up. Thank you!
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Just setup your account, there’s tons of interesting stuff being tweeted by the right people
moooOO
I’ve read about Tweeter a while ago but haven’t paid much attentionto it.
There’s so much social stuff around the net.
But I think I’ll give it a look. I really need to have more visitors.
Kind regards,
José
Hey Cow,
Add me too, I just started “following” u on twitter…
I am trying to filter all these “spam” twitter in the meanwhile… i hope u don’ sell your blog though..
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You are pretty accurate, but actually a bit low on the traffic estimates from Jason’s push. I’m actually suprised that the server hosting my website didn’t crash, but it held up well. Jason’s minions are very dedicated and will go anywhere he asks at a moment’s notice, which is actually the heart of my post. http://www.twitter.com/bebizzy
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I haven't started twittering yet but I signed up for an account this morning. I'm not sure what to expect because it's hard to wade through the hype.
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