social-networkingProblogger (Darren Rowse) posted a call to his readers, exhorting them to share their social media profiles and what a response!
I got the 29th comment in (out of nearly 700!) with just four links to my online presences:
The response was very impressive and shows just how much influence bloggers like Darren have. It also showed a distinct bias away from geeky networks towards the more accessible ones, so only a few new followers on sphinn and del.icio.us but loads of twitterers - that tells us a lot. I’ll let the figures speak for themselves. After 48 hours, I gained a load of followers:
| Network | Followers |
|---|---|
| 30 | |
| FriendFeed | 19 |
| del.icio.us | 5 |
| Sphinn | 5 |
I didn’t follow everyone back - some people just were not a good fit - but I did follow quite a few and also explored lots of profiles and followed people that just interested me, regardless of whether they follow me back or not.
On that note, I would declare Darren’s post a huge success - he got a load of reader interaction, links and buzz - whilst we humble readers got a load of exposure. I’m looking forward to the follow-up to this event.
Oh, and here is a cool little badge from TwitterCounter that displays the number of followers I have, you can get one for your blog too.
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thanks for the love & the widget
i arrived late to the problogger twitparty, but am happily working my way through the list. glad to have found your blog, good stuff here, just subscribed via email.