GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 41 - July 2018

FROM THE FORUMS #5 AussieDave 21 February 2018, 2:09 p.m. Public Member If one thinks of social media solely for the purpose of gaining players (sign-ups) then, in my opinion, you’re on the wrong track. That’s where having a non-generic branded site holds a major advantage. I use social media for branding. As a secondary to that, I’ll get traffic. “ Reply With Quote Images by REDPIXEL.PL/Shutterstock #4 TheGooner 20 February 2018, 9:21 p.m. Private Member Agree – I can’t imagine what a Twitter feed is like with 100K people followed. I don’t use Twitter itself much at all. I auto-post new content to Twitter with tools, and use TweetDeck to follow specific phrases rather than people. Our stats: 28,000 posts, 4000+ followers, 3 people followed. “ Reply With Quote Originally Posted by Syndicate What is the point of following 100,000 people on Twitter, and having the same amount follow back? For me it’s almost like children playing “you follow me and I’ll follow you back” on Instagram. 42 W W W . G P W A T I M E S . O R G #6 Breakout Affiliates 21 February 2018, 1:50 p.m. Sponsor Affiliate Program Well, let’s put it like this: With 10 followers, I am sure that if I post something at any point during the day, someone will likely see it at some point, be it through directly viewing it, retweets or likes. With 100,000 followers, that probability goes up exponentially, in all cases.   I feel like, in general, and on Instagram in particular, followers act as a kind of gravity. Initially, you gain followers for making quality posts on a regular schedule, and even if most of those aren’t active followers (i.e., they don’t like all your posts, or don’t even see all of them), they act as a gravity to other curious users who then also follow to see what the hype is. “ Reply With Quote #7 golfbettingsystem 22 February 2018, 12:08 p.m. Public Member Due to the transient nature of tweets on a follower’s timeline, I find that Twitter has nothing like the engagement levels of Facebook. I’m sure that some of the huge Twitter accounts get some joy by relentlessly pushing out sign-up messages, however, even the engaged followers probably see the messages as noise 99.9% of the time. And to the non-engaged, it’s simply spam. “ Reply With Quote