Two simple questions for today.
How often do you post to your blog?
and
How often do you post to your Twitter?
I’m trying to work out what best practice is.
I think blogging once a day is probably overkill, but Twittering when there’s something quick to say makes a good alternative.
Over to you.
Hit the reply button and let me know.
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I tend to tweet whenever I come across good content to share (I never do useless the weather is great style tweets).
As for blogging I like to post 2 or 3 times a week but I vary the days. I do not want to get stuck into a routine, but I want to do it whenever I feel like it, so I continue to love doing it. I often have good ideas for posts and then I write them.
But I do worry about creating a routine or expectation from my customers which I am unable to keep up with.
Yes, I'm tweeting much more often than I used to do. The thing that's made a difference to my Twitter account and keeping it active is setting up some of the automated notifications which post to Twitter. I also love TweetMeme, which I've got running on the blog now, as well as linked to some of my products.
Thom
I tweet more then I blog as I don't always have lots to say but I tend to think of quick little updates. I guess if I could see a similarity between my tweets I could make a blog post from them, however my tweets tend to be random.