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The 2008 Twitter StumbleUpon Experiment

Written by Jacob Cass on Sunday, May 25, 2008 – 10:58 pm

StumbleUpon Twitter Experiment

What do you get when you cross two powerful social driven media sites? Let us find out in the 2008 Twitter StumbleUpon Experiment.

Purpose

To find out if it is possible to get Twitter followers through the use of StumbleUpon and if so, how many reviews / thumbs up does it take till you get a noticeable increase in followers.

Method

Get people to stumble review and/or thumbs up this twitter page to drive StumbleUpon visitors to the page.

Please stumble review or thumbs up this twitter page and if your feeling kind, blog about the experiment!

Results

26/5/08 - Start of experiment with 306 followers + turned Twitter Auto Follow on by asking customer support.

27/5/08 - 327 (+26) Followers

28/5/08 - 338 (+11) Followers

29/5/08 - 346 (+8) Followers

30/5/08 - 360 (+15) Followers

31/5/08 - 372 (+12) Followers

1/6/08 - 380 (+8) Followers

2/6/08 - 392 (+12) Followers

3/6/08 - 403 (+11) Followers

4/6/08 - 415 (+13) Followers

Conclusion

Well after 9 days of running this experiment, I received 88 new followers so I guess it is possible to get some followers through the use of Stumble Upon however the certain number can not be exact.

I was pleasantly surprised to see 9 new followers on average, per day. Thank you everyone for helping out with this experiment. You may now want to read up on What is the best social media website? Digg, SU, Delicious, Reddit … or?


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Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter

Written by Jacob Cass on Monday, April 7, 2008 – 10:46 pm

Twitter

Guess what this post is about! Yes you guessed it… Twitter!

I have noticed that about 90% of all twitter posts are pages and pages on end explaining what it is and the benefits of using twitter so I am going to keep this short for ease sake and get straight to the point of this post…

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER

If you do not know what it is just sign up, it is the only way to get your head around it.

Just incase you forgot… Follow Me On Twitter.


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