Bloggers link a lot. Twitterers may link more.
Twitter shortens long URLs automatically to 25 characters, using tinyurl. Tr.im chops URLs down to 16 characters, giving you 9 extra spaces on twitter PLUS number of visits and statistics. And, you can trim and tweet and the same time using the interface or tr.im bookmarklet.
[Thanks to @carloshernandez for mentioning Laughing Squid’s tr.im post about creating super short URLs with statistics. ]
Last night, after @coloneltribune’s tweetup, I sent out tr.ims on twitter to each person I took a picture with. The links went directly to a picture of them in my flickr set. In about 8 hours, I had 75 hits to my flickr site – not bad for overnight visits. Prize for the most responsive twitter community goes to @prsarahevans, whose “twosse” visited the set the most. Here’s a picture of Sarah and me with @jasonfalls. Click on the picture to see @wiredprworks’s [that’s me!] photos from @coloneltribune’s tweetup.
I’m tr.im-ing most URLs now so I can track the number of visits, source and location. How do you track your referral traffic?
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3 Responses to Twitter Experiment: tr.im URLs report hits, visitor stats
Thanks for the pointer to tr.im I’ve been using it for about an hour now and I’m impressed
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I never thought of using Tr.im for twitter at all. Anyway, I still can’t figure how to get traffic from twitter. Hmm…
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I’ve been using tr.im for 9 days now and haven’t experienced any problems. I’ve used it on twitter, kwippy and in the topic of irc channels and it’s fascinating to see the statistics. One of my twittered urls received 154 visitors, even though I only have 2 followers!
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