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Social Experiment: The Twitter-Blogger

The Purpose of A Tweeting Blog

The original idea I had for A Tweeting Blog was to help other blogs advertise their blogs without the hassel of having to find hundreds of followers.  A Tweeting Blog is simple: First, follow @ATweetingBlog.  Next, tweet this exactly as it is:

@ATweetingBlog is a social experiment http://bit.ly/HvGX5 RT and send blog link!

After you tweet this, send a Direct Message to @ATweetingBlog with your blog’s url (perferably already shortened.  You can shorten your URL by posting your link on twitter.  Twitter will give you the http://bit.ly/ shortened version) and 50 or so characters summarizing your site.  Here is a good example:

@Google Help #killsuicide! http://act.ly/h8 and sign the #googlepetition and help prevent suicide.

You can use however many #hashtags and @usernames you would like.  This will then be seen by all of this account’s followers which boosts the chance of your site being found, bookmarked, or subscribed to.

Again, What Do I Do?

Here are the simple steps:

1. Follow @ATweetingBlog
2. Retweet ” @ATweetingBlog is a social experiment http://bit.ly/HvGX5 RT and send blog link! “
3. Send a DM to @ATweetingBlog with your blog’s URL and description.
4. Sit back and watch the traffic roll into your blog.

It’s a very effective way of marketing.  You advertise the twitter account in which your advertisements are also placed; when people follow @ATweetingBlog, there is a higher chance that your site will be visited as well.  It’s a win-win situation!

Questions?  Comments?

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H E L P K I L L S U I C I D E

This petition is for Google to support suicide prevention. Google is a colossal internet organization and the most recognized and powerful brand in the world. They gross in billions of dollars of revenue each year. This petition is asking Google to donate $5 dollars to the charity “To Write Love On Her Arms” for every person who signs this petition.

Now, if you haven’t read my article on “To Write Love On Her Arms” (TWLOHA), To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.  TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery (TWLOHA Website).  You can help TWLOHA yourself by clicking on the SocialVibe Widget on the sidebar and rating the Sprint video.  Sprint will then, in turn, donate a small amount to the charity.  It will only take a few seconds on your time and your help could mean the difference of life or death to someone considering suicide.

We need to have 200,000 people sign this petition by New Years Eve of this year (2009) to raise $1,000,000.  We can do it, but only if you spread the word!  Please retweet this post, post the link on facebook, e-mail the link to  your friends, and anything else you can think of.  Our goal is to get as many people to sign the petition as possible.

If we can get just 100 people to sign the petition, we have potentially raised $500 dollars for charity!  If 1,000 people sign, that would be $5,000!  The possibilities are endless, and all it takes is for you to just sign the petition and retweet it, post it on facebook, and spread the word.

Together, we can help kill suicide!  If you use twitter, use the hash tags #googlepetition and #killsuicide.

Haven’t retweeted the petition yet?  Do so with the button below.  Want to embed the retweet button on your own site or blog?  The embed code can be found by clicking here and scrolling to the bottom of the page.  You can also link directly to this page by using this link: http://bit.ly/2o8YtA

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Even More Ways to Obtain More Twitter Followers

Given the extreme amounts of traffic to my previous post How to Obtain New (and a Lot More) Twitter Followers and Website Exposure.  Here are a few more easy ways to get a lot of new followers on twitter with minimal effort.

Make sure you implement these tactics over time; if you do it all at once, your account is likely to be suspended or deleted, since Twitter will see you as a spammer.  Just a little tip to keep your efforts for being in vein.

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How to Obtain New (and a Lot More) Twitter Followers and Gain Blogging Exposure

You can market on almost any kind of platform, whether that be Xanga, Facebook, MySpace, or even Twitter.  Here are two great sites to market your twitter account.  My advice would be to use one twitter account as a personal account and one as a promotional blogging account.

Get More Twitter Followers

After signing up for this site, you will begin to use viral marketing to promote your twitter account.  You have 8 levels of people that will add you.  If only five people signed up each level, it would be 5 to the 8th power.  That means you will have almost 2.5 million followers!  I wouldn’t go so far as to say things will be that definite, but even if you gain a few thousand, what do you have to lose? Read the rest of this entry »

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