Some people here http://www.iallenkelhet.no/et-lite-twitter-eksperiment#comments find your experiment interesting, so you might post a link there when you post your results.

Cheers,
Torstein

Good luck!

I have not been able to update this experiments for a while due to travelling and a busy schedule, however it has indeed been interesting observing how I gain around 15-20 new followers each day without doing anything to deserve it, however most of them (new and old ones alike) unfollow me as well. In other words, the “chain letter mechanism” I have mentioned earlier still works. People follow people with an objective to increase their own following and once they notice that I do not follow them back, they unfollow.

I am now going into the second phase in which I plan to post links to web seminars and more. I expect to post the next update in about 10 days time revealing some numbers and conversion rates.

Stay tuned.

I hope all is well.
I am really interested in the results of your Twitter ROMI experiment. I have just recently become a Twitter member and have always wondered what was the real value of twittering and how it can be effectively used for integrated marketing campaigns.
It will be very interesting to see your numbers, Michael:
a) how many attendees to web seminars organized by Markedu were from Twitter
b) how many new newsletter subscribers to Meemoo2 Marketers newsletter were from Twitter
c) how many new visitors to this blog were from Twitter

Also, it would be interesting to see a), b), c) trended on a graph over time together with a number of visitors and strategies/tweets you used to get new followers and/or to promote your brand.

Keep us posted.

Best,
Sandra

What is interesting is that my theories are being put to the test, and some are proven right. F.ex. that some people whom follow some of the “tricks” to increase the number of followers fast - really follow the instructions - including the unfollowing part. At some point this weekend, I checked the follower status - left the computer - and refreshed the next morning to learn that some 30 people had unfollowed me during the 8 hours or so I was away from the computer.

Interesting. And especially interesting to see the critical mass game being played by friends and foes.

Don’t want to reveal too much at this point, however my web analytics tool tells me that I am in fact slowly, but surely driving traffic from Twitter to this very blog. I will reveal actual numbers and conversion rates within the next couple of weeks.

I will update the article with more indepth info next week, however I am wondering when I get the first complaint about “reTweeting” this article.

Oh, you can follow me to: http://twitter.com/michaelleander - if you don’t have a Twitter account yet - now is a good time to get started. After all, you surely don’t want to be the last marketer in the Universe on Twitter, do you ?

A quick update before I join my wife for the parent-teacher meeting:
My Twitter followers now count 630 - a little over 48 hours after my experiment began. Subtract the 70 I had when I started out, and you’ve got a gross increase of 540 followers in 50 hours.

Let’s see if that can be repeated over the next 48 hours starting Friday morning at 7 am.