# Last week, I brought 409 visitors to the SDMB from 1 tweet. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 29, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704 "2020-02-29T14:27:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/1 "2020-02-29T14:27:26Z")
This tweet: [https://twitter.com/JohnT15/status/1231200601930895361?s=19](https://twitter.com/JohnT15/status/1231200601930895361?s=19) … has 409 link clicks to this thread: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=856350](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=856350) Question: 1. Can this be corroborated in any way? 2. Any idea if there were any ‘conversions’? I.e., can it be tracked if a visitor to a thread decides to register? I promote the SDMB a _lot_ on Twitter… know I’ve gotten Harry Turtledove, Mark Cuban, Chris Sacca, and Mitch Kosterman to browse the site over the past year or so… but am kinda interested in knowing if this has any _measurable_ impact. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/2 "2020-02-29T15:04:41Z")
How do you find the number of clicks on the link? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/3 "2020-02-29T15:10:05Z")
Since it’s my tweet, I can view the ‘tweet activity’, which breaks down the interactions. Impressions: 65,513 Engagements: 7,036 Link Clicks: 414 … etc ---
**Author:** ![KMS94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@KMS94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KMS94)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/4 "2020-02-29T15:21:16Z")
It would be interesting if there was some way to see how many of them got a SDMB time out error, and didn’t bother trying again. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/5 "2020-02-29T16:12:51Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Since it’s my tweet, I can view the ‘tweet activity’, which breaks down the interactions. > > Impressions: 65,513 > Engagements: 7,036 > Link Clicks: 414 > > … etc Cool. I’ve been on Twitter a while but never knew that. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/6 "2020-02-29T18:25:32Z")
Thanks! i wish everyone could do this. And would do this. Sorry we can’t offer them an optimal experience right off the bat here. Jenny ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/7 "2020-02-29T18:27:11Z")
Do you have your analytics page set up? You can track your history at [analytics.twitter.com](http://analytics.twitter.com), which gives month-to-month summaries and details of your posting history. ETA: reply to DI. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/8 "2020-02-29T18:44:40Z")
It’s a good number–but, of course, it’s hard to tell what someone does after they click on something. Some people will click anything but read nothing. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/9 "2020-02-29T18:50:32Z")
Unfortunately your 409 plus is countered by all of the people that read my posts in the last week and decided to leave the SDMB forever. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/10 "2020-02-29T19:05:59Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Do you have your analytics page set up? You can track your history at [analytics.twitter.com](http://analytics.twitter.com), which gives month-to-month summaries and details of your posting history. > > ETA: reply to DI. Thanks. I’ll take a look when I get off my thumbs. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/11 "2020-02-29T19:09:04Z")
Maybe the extra people are the cause of all the board loading errors. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/12 "2020-03-01T02:33:56Z")
**Last week, I brought 409 visitors to the SDMB from 1 tweet.** I bet they were impressed with the board’s performance. Like something out of 1995. Please, share the reviews. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/13 "2020-03-01T15:13:53Z")
Best practices for marketing the SDMB on Twitter: 1. Twitter allows for up to four pictures per tweet - screenshot the comment you wish to highlight and add it to the tweet. 1.a. If multiple images, it helps to make sure that the bottom line or two of image 1 is displayed on the top of image 2 (and so on). This helps readers track the comment better. 1. Do #1 BEFORE you add the link to the SDMB page. 2. The question of ‘do I link to the thread or the post?’ depends on what you’re promoting. IF YOU ARE THE OP, go ahead and link to the thread. Otherwise, you’ll likely have to link to the post. 3.a. To the point above, when I link to the thread, I typically make a comment like "there’s a more nuanced, longer form discussion of this topic at [boards.straightdope.com/](http://boards.straightdope.com/)… " 1. Clout chase. ‘Clout chasing’ means responding _quickly_ to very popular accounts. The above tweet was a response to a pretty popular (only has 11.5k followers, but his followers ‘clout’ is rather high) account. The original tweet got 9k likes, mine got 500. But had I posted the exact same tweet just as a original tweet on my account, it may have gotten… at best… 20 likes from my 1k followers. Guys and gals, social media is, at its heart, _media_. The SDMB needs to be promoted, widely, on these massive networks if it is to survive, and we have… despite the board issues… a very engaging base and high-quality discussions on thousands of topics. If we could, maybe, once a week get on our FB or Twitter accounts and say “hey, we’re discussing this at the SDMB and there are nuances in this topic which can’t be covered in a single FB post… here’s a link”… that will do more, far more, for this Boards long term viability than, say, increasing the monetization of the current members. (Which also needs to be done, but that’s not what this thread is about.) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-brought-409-visitors-to-the-sdmb-from-1-tweet/848704/14 "2020-07-04T12:40:41Z")
Bumping, now that we’re post-migration.