CE goes Twitter

[mdshare]

As said twitter will be the marketing tool for 2009 so we can’t stay out of this race.

So we started a Twitter account.  http://www.twitter.com/cenetwork

This was pretty fast done, allthough not to my liking. So next step was changing the background image which actually has a weird size 1920×1707.

Ok so we have our twitter page now content … always the most difficult part there is.

Lucky there is a site called www.twitterfeed.com

Twitterfeed is a luxery if you have sites that have RSS feeds, so we added the feeds of CETWG, CEGD, CE-ezine and CE forums. Updating our twitter account every hour with the latest feeds of our network.

Once that part was done, we need to reach the millions of users on twitter. There is actually a nice tool for this also. See it as a old Pyramid scheme that gets used differently.

The system is relative simple and gets you 1000s of followers in a very short time with no work at all site is http://tweetergetter.com/cenetwork

So after a day our twitter account gets slowly populated and runs almost auto. A human check is always needed imo allthough you could have it run without even looking at it.

Marketing wise as results, the CE Forums received aprox 2k extra page views due to twitter so I def can't complain about this free marketing tool and would kinda recommend everyone to build also a twitter page.

Anyway if you have a twitter account, follow the CE twitter account and we will follow yours. Cross promotion always works.

md

[jannesiera]

Sounds intresting, please keep us updated!

[bbgames]

Building Browsergames has had a Twitter account for a while, at http://twitter.com/bbgames.

I'm afraid that I'm not really a fan of the pyramid-styled "follow a bunch of people and then trim it down", and I'd rather do it by hand - but Twitterfeed has been a great way to get posts showing up, and it's driven a bit of traffic. I also like to use it to keep in touch with some of my guest posters(and find new ones).

[mdshare]

So far I like it, doesn't require much attention if you can implement your feeds.

http://twitter.grader.com/ is also a nice tool

If you own a game, just make a xml feed for your game announcements and ad it to twitter. It's free exposure and doesn't require any of your time.
 

[die4me]

So this is just for getting extra page views thus raising your ranking in search engines and such?

[mdshare]

see it as you like, I see it as extra exposure aka free advertising.

I'm getting hits now referred from sites I never signed up to due to twitter as new users.

twellow.com, twiturls.com, etc just to name a few

If good marketeered I'm possitive it could generate easy 10k extra visits/day , which would cost a lot of hard cash if done through advertising.

[xBleuWolfx]

I think this is a very cool idea for getting more exposure for your game.

[mdshare]

Since started I can't complain, by updating twitter using feeds it seems it gets fetched and spread on other sites pretty fast. So generating indirectly backlinks which are a important aspect on the net.

[mdshare]

Seems Twitter is the way to go, Google started an account on twitter and rumours even go that Google or Yahoo would buy Twitter.

Now with google in the playfield at Twitter that could be good for all those that already use Twitter.

Twitter account for google: http://twitter.com/Google

articles:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/02/26/google-feels-lucky-with-twitter
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/02/27/twitter-drives-the-speculation-machine
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/4838591/Google-joins-Twitter.html