30 days after I set up bit.ly to keep stats...

[andrewducker]

In some ways, I'm somewhat boggled. That just users on Twitter, after all. And nearly 2500 clicks is a pretty big number.

On the other hand, that's less than a hundred clicks per day. From 167 "followers". So someone's not pulling their weight :->

Oh, and that includes people clicking on retweets, which is where I think the highest number of clicks come from.

"Direct" in the left-hand pie chart means "from an app that doesn't send info about what it is." The orange slice just above Twitter.com is Tweetdeck.

Comments

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

You're more popular than you think. Your links always create a big spike in my blog traffic whenever you link to me - not only from your LJ itself, but they get re-linked a lot by people who've come there via you. I get more traffic from one of your links than I got from my Blog Of The Year award from Lib Dem Voice, put it that way...

[andrewducker]

Ooh, thanks, good to know!

[andrewducker]

Oh, and it'd be nice to get your input here:
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2187026.html?thread=15401234#t15401234

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Will try to comment when I'm awake enough...

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not just your own posts, though I get a lot of traffic from those, but you're obviously something of an opinion-former - you're not only read by a lot of people, but the people who read you are read by a lot of people. Traffic tends to come as a first spike from your LJ, a second, larger spike shortly after when two or three other people pass on the link from your LJ, and then a smaller trickle as it percolates through across the whole of LJ. And that's happened every time you've linked me.

As far as generating actual traffic goes, your links posts generate *far* more traffic than the equivalent posts on Liberal Conspiracy used to, or the LDV Daily Dozen, and roughly equivalent to When Fangirls Attack or Journalista!

[andrewducker]

Yeah - I know that when my tweets get retweeted by Ciphergoth, or a couple of other people then they go through the roof (see the days which are big spikes on the graph).

[matgb]

Yup.

The power of the network on LJ and similar is still, despite decline, much bigger than that of the 'big' mainstream blogs.

I rarely if ever click on the link from Twitter, as I'm using that at a different time and reason normally, but do virtually always click them from the combined post, so I'm one of those "not pulling my weight" except I tend to click on the overwhelming majority (unless It's something I know I've already read).

The old linkdump posts on LC weren't ever as succesful as they could've been, I'd be curious actually how well a well promoted inline link does that's said as crucial for the article.