Hey everyone!
How's it going. I have some interesting info to share.
First, I've been using twitter for years and have seen it at it's best and worst. Lately things have been real slow getting traffic from twitter. With people posting full videos cut up into 2 min 20 second seconds and threaded back into a full video, it's hard to get users to click outbound links.
Originally I would use a link with an image and that worked great. Eventually animated gifs were allowed and that increased things as well. BUT, twitter has become saturated with this. These days, it barely works at all. Most people these days seem to just post the videos with no links and people just stay on twitter to watch porn.
Recently I've been working on improving my website as I've had massive issues with google and other search engines and while doing so I seem to have set up twitter cards (I didn't even know I did this, lol).
I posted a link on twitter and noticed it showed up with those fancy twitter cards and looked all pro. Suddenly I noticed lots of twitter traffic on site.
I don't know if it's related to the look of the cards, the added description of the videos or what, but damn... these twitter cards work great!!!
I highly suggest adding the meta to your websites so that if someone does post a link to twitter or another social network it will have that fancy card-like display. Works better than images & animated gifs combined. I posted a link 45 min ago and pinned it, it's already at 82 link clicks / 34 profile clicks. I can't fucking believe it works so good, but it does.
Also, seems to work great on Tumnblr too.
Give it a try if you want to improve your social media traffic, especially from twitter.
Have a great week everyone
