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The life of a tweet

I sent a note out over Twitter earlier today trying to gather some additional responses to a Web Tools Survey I am working on: Doing a survey of news Web sites – what open-source and free tools and services do you use: http://bit.ly/oju #journ

Typical enough – but what was interesting was watching the traffic (via bit.ly):

I have noted on the chart the timing of each re-tweet (red) and, perhaps more importantly, the actual conversions of clicks to survey responses (green). In the first hour the survey received five re-tweets, 110 referrals from Twitter, and four people actually completed the survey.

You can check out the raw data here http://bit.ly/info/oju

12 Comments

  1. catnip
    catnip April 10, 2009

    I love bit.ly. Why anyone still uses tinyurl is beyond me.

  2. Leslie-Jean Thornton
    Leslie-Jean Thornton April 10, 2009

    Okay. This is fascinating. I can't wait to launch another survey!

  3. dkiesow
    dkiesow April 10, 2009

    Monica – I am not familiar with him but will go take a look – thanks!

  4. Jeff
    Jeff April 10, 2009

    Sounds like you need to work on your conversion rate. Not even all the ppl that retweeted filled out the survey.

  5. dkiesow
    dkiesow April 10, 2009

    Most of the retweeters had completed it previously. They were just being helpful to give it a RT.thanks

  6. catnip
    catnip April 10, 2009

    I love bit.ly. Why anyone still uses tinyurl is beyond me.

  7. Leslie-Jean Thornton
    Leslie-Jean Thornton April 10, 2009

    Okay. This is fascinating. I can't wait to launch another survey!

  8. dkiesow
    dkiesow April 10, 2009

    Monica – I am not familiar with him but will go take a look – thanks!

  9. Jeff
    Jeff April 10, 2009

    Sounds like you need to work on your conversion rate. Not even all the ppl that retweeted filled out the survey.

  10. dkiesow
    dkiesow April 10, 2009

    Most of the retweeters had completed it previously. They were just being helpful to give it a RT.

    thanks

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