MackCollier

says

just checked with Google Analytics, over last month, 7.73% of blog traffic has come from Twitter, 5.74% from Plurk

18 responses to this plurk

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 06:41PM

  MackCollier

  says

  but didnt really start getting traffic from Plurk till about 2 weeks ago

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 06:47PM

  storyspinner

  well i think that says something!

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 06:48PM

  kalisurfer

  says

  mackcollier is your number of friends between twitter and plurk equal?

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 06:51PM

  MackCollier

  says

  Kali, I have 1,544 people following me on Twitter, and 309 here, so about five times as many on Twitter, yet Plurk is almost even

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 06:53PM

  kalisurfer

  says

  mackcollier WOW. plurk is a lot better then at directing traffic

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 06:57PM

  tsutrav

  has

  noticed the "staying power" of a plurk post/link; they don't seem to get pushed downstream as fast cause of the convo threading

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 07:06PM

  DebInAustin

  says

  that is pretty amazing. My plurk traffic has gone up despite the fact that I have not been posting very often, or in-depth like I had been

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 07:06PM

  DebInAustin

  says

  before I got injured.

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 07:06PM

  DebInAustin

  says

  sounds like the community building thing is so key. What a great example!

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 08:05PM

  MsSingleMama

  says

  Wow. That's very telling of Plurk's potential. Now if I could just find the time to plurk myself into social networking oblivion.

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 08:38PM

  MackCollier

  says

  I think you have to consider that Twitter has anywhere from 1-10 million users, while Plurk has about 10K. Easier 2 B big fish n small pond

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 08:43PM

  DebInAustin

  says

  and your target market is concentrated here- we are all interested in your blog and SM.

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 08:44PM

  KDFrawg❤

  says

  Getting pretty close, huh?

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 09:09PM

  MackCollier

  says

  Thanks Deb! I have a feeling Plurk will pass Twitter for next month.

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 09:20PM

  MackCollier

  says

  just checked the last two weeks, in that time Plurk has sent 8.83% of my blog's traffic, Twitter 6.16%

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 09:41PM

  Connie

  I haven't even blogged recently and my blog is getting referrals from Plurk. People here are very engaged.

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 09:49PM

  KDFrawg❤

  says

  Indeed they are. I have plurk referrals on all of mine and I wasn't even sure I had mentioned them all here.

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  Jun 30, 2008 - 10:02PM

  acnatta

  says

  just dropped a comment in your earlier Plurk, I'm noticing a great deal of traffic from ShareThis in general...