Twitter or Facebook for your site?

[Gizmo]

Which do you use and which do you think offers the most for your site/forum?

 

[Yehya]

I only use twitter for my site and i gain about 100 unique visitors from there daily. I don't promote much so i don't make my followers bored.

 

[Caedus]

I didn't use any. I swore I would never get a twitter account.

I have heard of mix results from people who do use them.

 

[Bruteforce™]

I use twitter. I get 10 visitors per tweet.
I also use FB, but i don't get any from it.

 

[Yehya]

I use twitter. I get 10 visitors per tweet.

How come? You only have 1 follower.

 

[Bruteforce™]

Tweets are published on home page for a certain amount of time and people see it and click it.

 

[Yehya]

Tweets are published on home page for a certain amount of time and people see it and click it.

Can i see your twitter page please?
And what homepage? Homepage of your followers? Or twitter's homepage?

 

[Bruteforce™]

Twitters homepage.
Here you go - http://twitter.com/#!/UNetworkSupport

 

[Yehya]

Twitters homepage.
Here you go - http://twitter.com/#!/UNetworkSupport

I am seriously not understanding you here.

10 visits per tweet, 1 follower.


And, when did Twitter start showing tweets on their homepage?

By follower's homepage, i meant the timeline of your followers.
And by Twitter's homepage, twitter.com when you are not logged in.

 

[Bruteforce™]

I don't know. If my acc makes a tweet i get 10 visitors on my site...

 

[Yehya]

I don't know. If my acc makes a tweet i get 10 visitors on my site...

What program do you use to do that?
This just hit me now, for instance, in Blogger's-built-in stats, on July 16th i received 598 pageviews. GA, which doesn't count bots or javascript-disabled-folks, says i only received 118 pageviews.


And on bit.ly, it says on July 16 i received 336 clicks.
Clicks does not equal to pageviews, keep in mind. (So maybe in these 336 clicks, i got 598 pageviews... maybe 480 of those pageviews were bots (598-118))
The most accurate way to find out the pageviews and avoid this confusion is to go with Google Analytics and go to Traffic Sources>Referral and see how many people visited you through Twitter.

 

[juststeven]

Their bots, not real people.

 

[Yehya]

That's what i said and was so amazed at first because i thought BruteForce was using GA.

But i added the word "maybe" because some people disable javascript. Small percentage but i can't say 480 of those are bots. I can only say almost all of those 480 are bots.

 

[Inner Light]

I'll be watching this thread with interest as I have neither Twitter or Facebook for my forum.

 

[Bruteforce™]

Some of them maybe bots. But a little are real people too.

 

[Branden]

I think that twitter works better for advertisment. I used to have over 1,000 followers and I would get twice that in daily traffic.

 

[XcapeX]

Twitter is what I use.

 

[Nebulous]

We have a twitter page, I dont think it helps us get more members. Its just another way to stay connected with the existing members.

 

[Acorn]

I have both! A Facebook fan page and also a twitter page. I use the twitter to also make announcements sometimes.

 

[TheDon90]

Twitter @SWCStaff