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How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

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Re: How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

#32
post #8

Have you considered what potential there is for scaling in up? Because if all you are getting that way is 100 uniques a day, the effort involved sounds like it'd make it a net loss compared to simply buying the traffic via paid advertising. If the tweets continue to generate additional referrals down the line, then of course it might change. But frankly, having seen the travel space up close, I find this system more…

Asking out of curiosity Is it legal to automate tweet in twitter? I mean if twitter detects someone is doing so wont they ban them?

Edit: I Read the post properly the replies are manual not automatic so I don't twitter will have any issue with it.

Re: How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

#33
post #31

Security Notification Per company security policy you have been denied access to the website: http://trevorstarick.com/twitter-an-untapped-well-of-potenti... Reason: Not allowed to browse this Botnet site.

I use CloudFlare which might be throwing a false positive.

Re: How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

#34
post #8

Have you considered what potential there is for scaling in up? Because if all you are getting that way is 100 uniques a day, the effort involved sounds like it'd make it a net loss compared to simply buying the traffic via paid advertising. If the tweets continue to generate additional referrals down the line, then of course it might change. But frankly, having seen the travel space up close, I find this system more…

Asking out of curiosity Is it legal to automate tweet in twitter? I mean if twitter detects someone is doing so wont they ban them? Edit: I Read the post properly the replies are manual not automatic so I don't twitter will have any issue with it.

It's acceptable to automate twitter activity per the rules here: https://support.twitter.com/articles/76915

Re: How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

#35

"Over the past decade"? Actually founded on March 21, 2006 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter ) :)

Over the past eight years didn't sound as sexy.

Be very very careful with this sort of thing. Try "the better part of a decade" if you want a phrase with a similar ring but actual truth behind it.

Re: How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

#36
post #29

If this trick is still really working for you, please, do yourself a favour and shut up about it. Drawing attention to it is not going to end well for you, either twitter shuts you down or people just copy your idea and it loses effectiveness. The correct time to write about these things is when they stop working.

All he's doing is smartly parsing the results of Twitter searches. This isn't really groundbreaking, it just requires some legwork.

Re: How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

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post #36
post #29

If this trick is still really working for you, please, do yourself a favour and shut up about it. Drawing attention to it is not going to end well for you, either twitter shuts you down or people just copy your idea and it loses effectiveness. The correct time to write about these things is when they stop working.

All he's doing is smartly parsing the results of Twitter searches. This isn't really groundbreaking, it just requires some legwork.

Exactly where I got the idea. I just automated the majority of it.

Re: How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

#40
post #36
post #29

If this trick is still really working for you, please, do yourself a favour and shut up about it. Drawing attention to it is not going to end well for you, either twitter shuts you down or people just copy your idea and it loses effectiveness. The correct time to write about these things is when they stop working.

All he's doing is smartly parsing the results of Twitter searches. This isn't really groundbreaking, it just requires some legwork.

I agree, but the general point is that specific marketing tricks that work well should be hoarded, not shared, because sharing them destroys their value.
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