You should follow me on Twitter

#1

Post by tdavis » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 10:19 PM UTC

You should follow me on Twitter
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Re: You should follow me on Twitter

#2

Post by alexgartrell » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 10:27 PM UTC

I wonder if it wasn't, in some way, correlated with the length.

More characters means more like to be seen.

Re: You should follow me on Twitter

#3

Post by ironkeith » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 10:28 PM UTC

I've read in the past that telling people to do something isn't as effective as telling them that everyone else is doing it. I wonder how a phrase like "most people who like my blog follow me on twitter" would fare?

Re: You should follow me on Twitter

#4

Post by blader » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 10:28 PM UTC

This is fantastic.

Just curious - did you run any tests for statistical significance?

Re: You should follow me on Twitter

#5

Post by jganetsk » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 10:29 PM UTC

The experiment is still going on! This guy wants to see what the clickthrough rate is given the elaborate description of the exeperiment above the link.

How Hofstadterian!

Re: You should follow me on Twitter

#6

Post by seldo » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 10:30 PM UTC

Generally I'm against using the word "here" as link-text, since it doesn't provide any Google-juice to the relevant terms. But in this case the only other possible link texts might be "follow me" or "Twitter", so it's probably okay.

Re: You should follow me on Twitter

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Post by siong1987 » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 10:32 PM UTC

ironkeith wrote: post #3

I've read in the past that telling people to do something isn't as effective as telling them that everyone else is doing it. I wonder how a phrase like "most people who like my blog follow me on twitter" would fare?

how about "Follow me on twitter here. I have x followers."?

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Post by PStamatiou » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 10:33 PM UTC

siong1987 wrote: post #7

ironkeith wrote: post #3

I've read in the past that telling people to do something isn't as effective as telling them that everyone else is doing it. I wonder how a phrase like "most people who like my blog follow me on twitter" would fare?

how about "Follow me on twitter here. I have x followers."?

Similarly, I wonder how some automated text like "11,399 people follow me on Twitter, you should too" would work.

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Post by timf » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 10:38 PM UTC

ironkeith wrote: post #3

I've read in the past that telling people to do something isn't as effective as telling them that everyone else is doing it. I wonder how a phrase like "most people who like my blog follow me on twitter" would fare?

I don't have the source or exact words on hand but I read there were A/B tests done on phrasing in infomercials. The phrase "operators are standing by" fared overwhelmingly worse than "if the lines are busy, keep trying" which implied that they were typically so busy with orders that they could hardly staff enough operators.

[EDIT: thanks to ironkeith for the Cialdini link ... it was a book by him and it was in a section devoted to the "Social Proof" research]

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Post by ironkeith » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 10:41 PM UTC

ironkeith wrote: post #3

I've read in the past that telling people to do something isn't as effective as telling them that everyone else is doing it. I wonder how a phrase like "most people who like my blog follow me on twitter" would fare?

It was an article referencing research by this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini