What social media site works best?

[John]

Out of all the major social media site (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, ect). Which one would you say has done the best to gain you members?

 

[Chris K]

Not exactly members as I only have a website (blog) at the moment but Pinterest, Google+ and Facebook seem to do the trick.

 

[Luke]

I reckon Twitter is personally quite good. I've used it mostly for blogs, but I do find if you use the right hashtags etc that you can get some people making their way across to your site.

 

[Shole]

Twitter, Reddit(if you consider it a social site), Facebook and Tumblr. Now the hard part is to promote your content in a way that will give you the best first impression. Social Networks promotion can be hard if you are promoting a forum.

 

[Cosmic]

Probably twitter, but dunno. I think forums are just as good as social networks, particularly for promoting forums. You don't have to sell people on the idea of using a forum in general, and I think the engagement between members is much more authentic on a forum than on a social network.

 

[RH-Calvin]

I have tried out Pinterest and Stumble upon and they worked a bit for my promotion.

 

[Accolayd]

Facebook groups

 

[Sapett]

I'm not really sure, but I use Twitter and Facebook primarily. I have not tried Google's targeted ad campaigns though. I plan to and will let you know how it goes.

 

[Hans Adams]

Twitter is the best for me. Facebook looks to have lost momentum among my age group.

 

[Forces of Steel]

From my experience, it's just Facebook. A lot of people are too hesitant to join Google+ or read mindless drivel on Twitter.

 

[Sharon]

I still have yet to really push advertising on social media for my forums however I've started to use Facebook for getting the word out there about my blog and that has been doing wonders for my traffic stats.

 

[Reddyash]

For me facebook and twitter worked better. Trying other social media lets see how the results come.

 

[Deleted member 25872]

I would have to say Facebook has helped me the most. This social media website has helped increase my traffic allot now.

 

[bobey]

I think it depends on what kind of you business. If your target customers are youngster, I think the most effective way is Facebook

 

[Mikaya]

I think Facebook. Links and text used in status messages can reach out to a lot of people if you have many friends. Making a group for your forum/site may be very effective too, as you can add major updates and changes easily.

 

[Migi]

When I still had a forum, Facebook helped me most. We created a group at Facebook and got members interested in the group. From there they checked the forum and became active at the forum too. But we created the Facebook group after we had some members at the forum, though, so there could still be activity in the group. Perhaps it wouldn't work as good if the group started empty.

 

[otakunation]

Probably twitter, as long as you use famous hashtags.

 

[Captured Enigma]

In my opinion, it's Twitter, that is what it is set up to do. It is really good at what it does.

 

[MasterA]

I think twitter is the best with Facebook being a close second but at the end of the day, I guess it depends how many friends/followers you have.

 

[sophia ellison]

According to me Facebook is one of the best social media site. Facebook is the platform where you can easily share information with your friends. It also helps to increase backlinks and more traffic to your website.