If you recently thawed out from being frozen in a glacier or you just really really suck at following whats going on in the online world than chances are you have no clue what Twitter is. I really don’t plan on getting into a long drawn out thing about what Twitter is or how to use Twitter, if your looking for information about Twitter just check out my Twitter section.
Now getting back to those of you that have been made full aware of exactly what Twitter is thanks to mainstream coverage and celebrities on Twitter, it’s safe to say that you know it’s one of the most popular social networking and micro-blogging sites in the world. Twitter is an excellent tool for bloggers as well as small business owners and people looking to make money online, oh yeah it’s also good for people that just like to blurt out status updates all day long too.
10,000 Tweets on Twitter
Those of you that subscribe to my rss feed or follow me on twitter know that I use the social networking site for all kinds of things, I guess that’s why I have piled up over 10,000 tweets on twitter. I use twitter to drive traffic to my blog, announce specials that we are running at either of my small business’s or just to connect with people and shoot the shizzie.
Twitter is currently my number 5 referring site out of all traffic sources based on Google Analytics, I have only been using Google Analytics to track blog stats on this blog since late in July, in that short period of time twitter has driven over 5,000 visitors to my blog. I didn’t bother to check the statistics for my indoor tanning blog, limousine blog or MMA blog, I also retweet specials and blog posts for those sites as well.
I don’t spend as much time on Twitter as I did back in the day when I first started to get involved with it, at one point I was averaging something like 75 tweets a day, I think at this point I probably tweet about 10 times per day. I really don’t pay much attention to how often I am tweeting as long as I am tweeting and networking with people that I follow on Twitter.
Before I get out of here I would like to thank my 5,000+ twitter followers for putting up with my endless banter and babbling and certainly thank all of you that are nice enough to retweet some of the crazy things that I tweet. Thank you for interacting with me and making it possible for me to reach 10,000 tweets.
Anthony @ Jumpness (18)
SafariDave (17)
sangalicious1 (11)
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You got me eating my words with this blog. I’m still underneath my rock LoL. Congratulations Jb
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:38 am
@eSINess, thank you. It’s not anything that’s picked up in 3 minutes thats for sure.
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Congrats John for your 10000 twitter follower, its very big compare to me. I am not so much busy with twitter, so I think I am not getting much follower.
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Great Congrats 5000+ followers …10000 tweets great
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:38 am
@Lucifer@Blog Contests, thank you.
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My god! I don’t even think I’ve made it out of double-figures yet.. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:39 am
@Hard Rocking South African@Music Judge, you better get it moving. Your missing out on some fair traffic ;)
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Congrats for the 10k tweets, i followed you late so must have missed the most, but anyways, that’s a huge milestone even for some one who can post 75 tweets a day :P
anyways, lately i have realized the potential of twitter and its becoming one of my biggest referrals too, cheers!
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:39 am
@Uttoran Sen, thats great news. It’s nice to see others gaining some traffic from Twitter as well.
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My god!! 10,000 tweets and 5,000 followers – that’s Extreme, John
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James Moralde (37 comments.) Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 1:54 am
@Klaus @ TechPatio, Living up to his name, ExtremeJohn
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:39 am
@James Moralde, hahaha.
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So are you going to explain what Twitter is or not?
But yeah, good start!
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10,000 tweets, OMG you have been a busy bee
Does this mean that you are now a twitter-holic as well as a blog-a-holic 
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:40 am
@Karen @ Blazing Minds, at one point in time I was both, my Twitter excitement has worn off to a degree, once I clean ojut my closet there a little bit I think I will be back at it.
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John, seems that you love 10,000 this number huh? Last week you had a 10,000 comments, now you have this, cool man! I have only 370+ tweets until today and 1,080+ followers, may need to take some times to take over you, or never.
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:40 am
@Lee Ka Hoong@How To Make Money Online, wouldn’t be too bad if someone wanted to start handing me stacks of $10k on a monthly basis for some advertising here ;)
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Lee Ka Hoong (195 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
@Extreme John, lol! This wouldn’t be a bad idea, but let’s see John perhaps this would happen some days later. Who knows right?
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Way to go Tweet Master.
Did you see the guy who paused during his wedding ceremony to tweet before he kissed the bride( on fox news ). Thats one deicated tweeter. I wonder if he will tweet during his honeymoon activities?
Make today a Super Safari Day.
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:41 am
@SafariDave, I heard about that. It’s pretty funny, now someone needs to tweet during sex than the world will be complete and packed with way more information than most of us need to know.
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I wonder how long will twitter stay on top? Seems like yesterday that myspace was THE thing on the internet. I give about 2 years at most until Twittzilla starts fading.
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You are welcome John. I’m one of your avid Twitter followers.
ZXT´s last blog ..Go get them Tiger!
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:41 am
@ZXT, I know you are Z and I appreciate you connecting with me on Twitter as well as here on EJ.
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I am a big fan of and avid user of Twitter. Of course I am no where near the 10k Tweets mark, but I Tweeting on the regular.
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:42 am
@Ms. Freeman, it kind of snuck up on me, it will do the same for you.
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That’s awesome john, i too have completed 10,000 tweets, and i agree twitter helps you get a lot of traffic and a networking helps you get more followers and hence more visitors. I think twitter is not a waste of time, but i don’t have time for both blogging and tweeting, so i have to decide which one is to be given more preference.
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:42 am
@gautam hans, for anyone that does not follow you on Twitter they are missing out, your always active and always sharing excellent information. Probably one of the best on Twitter I have seen.
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Someone could make a fortune from 10.000 tweets, cool!
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Just added my photo to my account. Thanks John.
I was super safari easy.
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am
@SafariDave, no problem Dave. Lookin spiffy.
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Well that is no small feat. I have been tweeting up a storm I thought but I am only up to 200 tweets. There is probably a healthy balance for everyone but this is a field that will continue involving, nice to know how you do it.
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I only have to send out 9,426 more tweets to catch up
with you.
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am
@Tycoon Blogger@promote your blog, you were much more active in the early stages, what happened?
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Nice set of followers. What happened to your Twitter linking on comments. Used to love that.
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10k Tweets! What you average 30 tweets a day?
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Ned Carey (9 comments.) Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
@MichaelR,
I don’t know how many a day that works out to but it is about two tweets per follower. We could keep up with that pace simply by having two welcome tweets.
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ZXT (260 comments.) Reply:
December 5th, 2009 at 8:46 am
@Ned Carey,
I only tweet about 2 or 3 times a day. Sometimes 10 but sometimes I dont for 2 straight days. I suck at Twitter.
ZXT´s last blog ..My three month old blog
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am
@MichaelR, I’m sure there was a time that I did.
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Hey EJ,
I sometimes wonder if the Tweet machine will implode on itself. Once marketers get a grip on anything good it tends to get very spammy.
Thanks for commenting on my blog.
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:44 am
@Evan Beck, I’m on the same page with you, if Twitter doesn’t evolve and change things up it will become a pig pen and a waste.
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Congrats John on the 10K tweets
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:44 am
@Hicham, thank you Hicham.
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Wow, that’s just awesome to get that number. I have still got a long way to go to get there. I do my best to tweet when I have spare time and my numbers are increasing.
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 11:45 am
@George Serradinho, keep writing Thesis tutorials and Im sure everyone will be fine ;)
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This is another WOW John! You must be an EXTREME fan of social networks especially twitter.
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I wonder how many tweet you did per day to reach10.000 tweet?
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
@Ruri @ Free article submission, there’s a few Twitter tools out there I should login to one and see what my average is.
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After the first 10,000 tweets, you will be looking at 100,000 tweets! What a noisy little bird you are! tweeting and tweeting away.
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
@scheng1, hahah not sure I tweet as much as everyone thinks, I was also on Twitter for a while so it’s not like it was done in a short period of time ya know.
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Ned Carey (9 comments.) Reply:
December 14th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
@Extreme John,
Well I just looked at the last 60 tweets on my page. Three were from you. Seems a reasonable number.
It looks like the 80/20 rule applies to tweeting. The top guy had 32 out of those 60 and the next guy had 10. Then it tapered off.
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Just followed you to see what all the tweeting is about.
So one visit for every two tweets overall. I wonder what your ratio is lately?
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Extreme John (4111 comments.) Reply:
December 21st, 2009 at 12:42 pm
@Phil@workplace wellness, it’s tough to say. I have been more active on Twitter lately, certainly more active than I was when I wrote this post.
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Twitter is starting to crack down on rss feeds loading up peoples accounts with no other content being added. I had 2 accounts suspended and they wouldn’t reinstate them cause 95% of the tweets were blog feeds.
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Thanks for the Twitter encouragement, I had all but given up on it. I guess I feel like I’m being spammy, even though I only tweet information and good content. I’ll just have to get over it.
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