DocAndersen
I know that I don’t always use Social Media the way other folks do. Based on that I’ve been collecting data both on how other users are using Social Media but also which Social Site is being used the most. I’ve posted the question/concept here on Virily and MyLot. Overall the consensus of the majority of responders and messages sent directly to me is Twitter is the leader for sharing blog posts and other information. Facebook is second, and Google + is the third option. I was hoping that Google + was lower on the list because it would be easier to replace for writers. But it isn’t so we come back to how do you use the various social sites. Based on that I am going to share how I use Social media and how I track my impact.
- I share most Virily posts to Twitter. I check on the Twitter dashboard, (ok once a week or so) to see which posts I shared got the most views. I do post other things to twitter, but for the most part, it is either retweeting something interesting or sharing a Virily or other blog post.
- I share some things on Facebook, but for the most part, I use Facebook to keep up with family
- The Pinterest, interesting issue here, I use Pinterest as my Virily backup (I share all my posts there, so I have a copy in case of problems on Virily)
- I use Patron – it is a great site for sharing the post
- I use mix, although I am newer on Mix I use it for adding information
- I used to use Flipboard, but I do not anymore
- I use Reddit for sharing my Virily posts, normally one to two days after
- I use Bloggers inspiring Bloggers on Facebook to share posts
- I use Sharing our Creativity on Facebook to share posts
Much like the other folks that responded, most people get more traffic on Twitter than the other sites. A couple of folks have said they do get better responses on some types of posts (most picture focused posts) using Facebook. One of the things I would love to be able to see if the reality of influencers and do they pull in more external readers than other Virily readers. There are a couple of the influencers that bring a lot of other Virily readers with them. But beyond that “anecdotal” evidence I don’t have any way to collect that data. I do know (I only shared a number of my posts (10) to Facebook and did the same sharing to Twitter. I averaged many more views sharing to Twitter than I did share to Facebook.
Continuing down the path of trying to come up with a community answer to the question “What should we replace Google + with?”
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Question of
Do you share your blogs in Facebook groups?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Please share the groups in the comments! (I use Bloggers Inspiring Bloggers) and (Sharing our Creativity)
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Yes
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No
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Question of
I’ve gotten a couple of social platforms I hadn’t heard of. Please share others in the comments.
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Yes
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No
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Users voted 5 times.
Q: DO YOU SHARE YOUR BLOGS IN FACEBOOK GROUPS?
Yes (3 votes) – 38%
No (5 votes) – 63%
Q: PLEASE SHARE THE GROUPS IN THE COMMENTS! (I USE BLOGGERS INSPIRING BLOGGERS) AND (SHARING OUR CREATIVITY)
Yes (4 votes) – 80%
No (1 votes) – 20%
Q: I’VE GOTTEN A COUPLE OF SOCIAL PLATFORMS I HADN’T HEARD OF. PLEASE SHARE OTHERS IN THE COMMENTS.
Yes (3 votes) – 75%
No (1 votes) – 25%
I use Twitter for sharing blog posts, and have done so for several years. I now have more than 68.5K followers on Twitter and I use Socialoomph to program my Twitter feeds right round the clock.
You are far ahead of me on twitter. I use it heavily but do not have anywhere near that number of followers!
I once shared my posts on all social media connected with Virily when I was active there, unfortunately now no longer. One group where I have also shared is the group you mentioned above.
It does present an interesting question about social media. I know, for example, that I draw a lot of people from twitter (I average 40 views per post I share.). But I do often wonder the quality of those “views.” I would need access to the api’s Virily is using to know the answer to that question but it does cause me to stop and consider.
There are at least two groups on Facebook besides what you already know as a place for me to share, and they (group members) are my close friends in Tsu but I don’t feel there was any significant uplift of outside views as far as I’ve shared there.
It is really hard to tell with Facebook. Twitter at least gives you a dashboard so you can correlate some level of impact.
Virily used to as well, telling you how many gues views you generated, but now they only inform you of the first one. (which is fair, it does cause massive site performance issues).
I think the same about Facebook, unfortunately, I also don’t have many followers on Twitter as I also don’t follow many people.
Twitter is interesting, I started doing Yelp reviews of food about 5 years ago. I shared those on twitter and had thousands of views.
It actually allows me to post other things on Twitter now, but still get 40, or more views per post.
I don’t even understand how to see the number of outsider views in Virily…
First you check your twitter dashboard (how many views did you get per tweet). then you check your views on Virily. now subtract the first number from the second, there should be some organic views.
Wow! That’s new knowledge for me! Thanks a lot, Doc! I have learned much from you
In your case I would assume that would have more organic views than I do. But that is a guess.
That’s valuable input, Doc. I really appreciate it but I prefer this kind of discussion rather than the number of views.
I only started looking (at views) because I was curious. I wanted to know who was influencing my posts.
That must be the users.
Funny, if you had asked me going in I would have picked three of the names correctly of who moves my posts.
I would have been completely wrong on three others.
I learned a valuable lesson.
Didn’t you get that picture based on data?
I actually put down a hypothesis before I started gathering the data. My original guess turned out to be half right!
So, it’s a great combination for the results!
My best results is Twitter since I get notifications from Virily stating that someone has been issued an invitation.
Have you ever checked your twitter dashboard?
Yes I have and it shows some good results.
It does, I started checking it when I built the original influencers list. It is a very useful tool!
That is one the positive thing with Twitter.
It also has global impact, pretty easy to use overall.
I forgot about the global impact of Twitter.
I have to say I actually check to see what country other than the US is the top country for reading my tweets.
That is true since the U S is one of the largest markets for Twitter readers.
I use Facebook groups but I use different ones for different posts. I belong to quite a few of them. If my post has to do with trains, I share them on the train-related groups.
My biggest success has been my articles about Chicago. There are several Chicago-related groups and they tend to have large memberships.
Thanks, Gary, Facebook is definitely an interesting media endpoint. I find its impact (for me) goes up and down depending on the time of year and as you point out, the group I post in.
I suck at social media, less social, more like pimping for me…
Fair enough, thanks for playing 😉
I really ought to generate metrics, but I just don’t have the time…
Time is relative, but I do understand the reality of not having any.
it has to do with priorities and scheduling. even though metrics might help me increase my ROI and be more efficient…
One of the things that frustrated me was trying to find who was actually reading my posts.
I found a couple of the influencers that when they comment, they are likely to bring a few readers, but not many (for my posts).
Then I started to wonder who was actually bringing readers to my posts. The metrics allowed me to stop caring if a couple of the influencers didn’t read my posts anymore because I hurt their feelings.
So I started calling out the Hypocrites directly. They don’t like to be called out.
Understandably not. Probably the worst thing you can do to a hypocrite is to call them out. But it is also a great deal of fun…
In fact it is, sadly the major ones on the site, are now mad at me. Oh well. Not the first time!
I think Twitter is currently best known. There are many social networks in your posts that I have not heard before. I do not know how well we know them in our countries (Europe)
I don’t know if all of them are available in Europe. I believe most of them are GDPR compliant so they should be available.
Twitter does seem to be at the top of the mark.
I’ll try or all of them are available with us
Thanks – let me know if you can’t get to some of them.
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Sorry, this is a really important post for our community here on Virily. What was cool?