Seven Quick Steps to Measuring Your Results on Twitter

by Adam Killam on January 30, 2009

Interested in tracking your results on Twitter? Want a quick and easy way to test headlines, copy and determine what your followers are most interested in?

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Here are 7 easy steps:

  1. Create a free account at www.budurl.com
  2. Find a newsworthy story/blog post and shrink the story’s URL using Budurl
  3. Paste the shortened link into Twitter and write a catchy intro
  4. Post the story
  5. Monitor clicks via your bud account
  6. Rinse and repeat to test various copy/stories
  7. Divide total number of clicks by total number of followers to determine what percentage of followers respond to each link/post

Bonus tip: use the notes section of Bud to better track the URLs and stories you’re following

Bonus tip #2: in the notes section, paste in the exact wording you used when posting to Twitter to keep track of Twitter copy that your followers respond to

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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Andy Meadows 01.30.09 at 10:09 pm

Thanks for recommending BudURL! We greatly appreciate it. Please send any feedback to ideas@budurl.com.

Thanks!

Andy
budurl.com

2 Adam Killam 02.05.09 at 12:57 pm

No problem Andy. I love the service and have been using it to test headlines, story ideas and more via Twitter.

Keep up the great work!

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