Comments on: How to Perfect Your Headlines with Twitter

By: Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:36:39 +0000

As you've pointed out, this isn't perfect. It's just one more way to test.

The amount of time in between both links is an important part of the test. I should have specified a set amount of time in between tests. Firing back to back tweets with the same link is a good way to tick people off and lose your following. As a rule of thumb, I usually send out the tweets 6 hours apart.

As always, thanks for your comments.

By: The Manalyst

The Manalyst — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:00:20 +0000

That is a great post on how to test your headlines, but here is the concern:
As you said “Participants on Twitter won’t always match up to the audience you are crafting a headline for.” People are different, and they get attracted to different things. What some of your followers might find as a headline and link worthy of clicking, might not seem so for the rest. And since in Twitter, you have no control over the type of followers (beyond to who you decide to block, and you surely won't do that), you might be left with a large number of followers but only a few who really are your targeted audience and would pretty much click on most (if not all) the links you tweet because they know they'd find value there.
And as you said: “There is no way of knowing whether or not users clicked on both links.”, your loyal followers would most likely click on both links, only to find out that it is the same content that they have already read. To me, that might cause a negative reaction, like they were being tricked only for the blogger to increase readership. I say the best solution to that is to leave an interval of time before posting the second link, it would mostly be more accurate if you post it in 12 hours, why? because there is a less chance that a follower who was present to click on your link the first time be online after 12 hours to see it and click on it the second time.
And I'm sorry that my comment seems more like a blog post than a comment!

By: benwfox

benwfox — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:56:01 +0000

How to Perfect Your Headlines with Twitter http://ow.ly/wya7

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By: BarkCreative

BarkCreative — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:10:30 +0000

How to perfect your Twitter headlines…and improve clicks! Seriously good read! http://ow.ly/vUjs

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By: Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:30:18 +0000

Mandy,

Thanks for the comment. You bring up a great point. It’s important to keep your audience in mind here because if you don’t you could quickly become a nuisance at best and possibly a spammer, if you aren’t careful. I hope to address this topic again in the future, because I’ve found that there is even more opportunity in tracking all of your content in this way so that you can zero in on which words and phrases hit home with your audience. When apply theory to more than just a single headline or single piece of content, you can reveal greater insights and there is less risk becoming annoying because you aren’t linking to the same post or article every single time.

By: Akhia

Akhia — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:09:02 +0000

How to Perfect Your Headlines with Twitter http://bit.ly/V5G9i (via @FreshPeel)

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By: Mandy Vavrinak

Mandy Vavrinak — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:15:44 +0000

Chris,

I’ve done the same thing to test blog post titles. I agree it’s an effective method to see what resonates with your Twitter stream, but would caution against over-testing, since tweeting the same content over and over (even with a different headline) will get tiresome for some of your followers. And the more engaged they typically are with your content, the more it will annoy them.

By: rwdigital

rwdigital — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:55:57 +0000

great post re: testing links in twitter: http://bit.ly/4pZoIw

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By: clemenceko

clemenceko — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:47:07 +0000

How to Perfect Your #Headlines with #Twitter | http://bit.ly/OsUPe

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By: JELeigh

JELeigh — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:12:55 +0000

Chris Wilson (@FreshPeel) shares a neat idea for testing content headlines with bit.ly and Twitter. http://bit.ly/70ZDo #testing #fb

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By: consultski

consultski — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:28:03 +0000

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GooglingSEO — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:18:47 +0000

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By: TheBrandChef

TheBrandChef — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:04:35 +0000

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By: socialmediajs

socialmediajs — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:52:44 +0000

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By: piperjo

piperjo — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:22:08 +0000

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WeBelieveTeam — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:32:45 +0000

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By: poloX

poloX — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:12:14 +0000

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By: searchcircus

searchcircus — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:05:26 +0000

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By: tehranweekly

tehranweekly — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:02:33 +0000

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