Social blogging through micro sites such as Twitter has become so popular that the sites themselves are struggling to cope with traffic. With the inclusion of plugins such as those available for WordPress, people can keep up to date with every singe action of their friends.
Conversations now get quite personal with every aspects of life covered. I am sure some people tweet while eating, bathing or engaged in any other activity such as playing sport – yep – I recently saw a softball player ‘tweeting’ on her phone whilst playing softball.
We went through this several years ago when everyone started messaging via cell phone. Before that everyone had ICQ or MS and spent half the day ‘chatting to others’.
Social blogging, or in this case micro blogging has become the ‘in’ thing. As a marketing tool it has its limitations, however it does have the power to suddenly increase traffic – often poor quality, to your site.
Do you twiiter – does it build your traffic? I would like to know – I cannot get in to it.
