So, while you can inspire RT's simply by blogging, I wonder if that is general, because people (perhaps like me) might feel “loyality” to you on Twitter; we are “conditioned” to RT your stuff a lot (partly b/c we dig you, partly b/c it's often good).

Also I like Steve's proposed experiment, not that you should necessarily carry it out.

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I also agree with Lani Rosales, it goes back to simply closing at the end by asking not leaving it to chance.

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[...] Copy and paste this into your Twitter account (or similar).  Following Jeremiah’s example. [...]

[...] social media marketing (make sure to add his blog to your RSS feed, he’s great), conducted a very interesting experiment on twitter. As it turns out, the number of followers on twitter matter a lot less than the quality content [...]

What makes you think that sponsored links might generate traffic?

See also http://twitter.com/nmw/status/1102650583

nmw

[...] Findings: Why You Don’t Need to Tweet to Get Traffic from Twitter – Jeremiah Owyang has conducted a cool Twitter experiment. Read his post to find out the results. [...]

I’d like to see the results of a test done with a number of different blogs/twitter accounts to see what might be a more “typical” result.

The whole point of this experiment is to ignite “energizing” or word of mouth. So that’s me NOT tweeting.

As I pointed out in the post, although I have decent traffic to this blog, marketers could equally get more traffic to their blog through advertising or other marketing efforts.

The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate how to glean twitter traffic without tweeting myself.

Got it, It will certainly fall off, the novelty will wear off. I’ve seen less tweets for the follow up post showing the findings.

Confusion lifted.

Ok now I’m confused too, because your conclusion that you don’t need to be on Twitter to get traffic from Twitter seemed to be coming from your RTing experiment. I think that was a ‘one-shot’ deal, and I would be very surprised if you see the same level of traffic from Twitter without specifically asking people to RT the post, as you did in your ‘experiment’ post. A clear call to action was involved there, and you can’t consistently repeat that experiment, and expect the same results you saw.

I do think that adding the ability to RT posts at the end of the post is a very smart move, and one I’ve been asking about for a while now. I hope you track your traffic from Twitter over time (assuming you maintain your Twitter hiatus), and share the results with us in say, a month. My guess is your percentage will fall significantly from the level you saw from your RTing post, but it would be interesting to learn by how much.

I’m confused. The experiment included the blog post asking readers to tweet it IS the experiment, how do you suggest I de-couple that? That was the whole point.

As you point out, even a blog with different traffic (more or less) should in theory see similar changes in traffic.

Expect bloggers to plead to readers to share blog posts via twitter going forward.