I’ve been Twittered.
Dave Winer on the future of Twitter:
I’m very reluctant to dismiss Twitter as a passing fad, aware that many people said that about blogging, and I was sure they were wrong, and they were.
I’ve been trying to avoid Twitter for some time now. Blogging eats time, and one of the ways I cope is that I studiously avoid testing every new social media tool that I learn about in the b-sphere.
But something happened yesterday that tells me I’m going to have to learn about Twitter. What happened?
I checked my stats and found I’d gotten almost as many referrals from Twitter as from Seth Godin’s blog.
I didn’t even know Twitter could link. That’s how careful I am to preserve my ignorance and husband my time.
I suspect it happened because of Scoble. Here’s Winer again:
…if I were a Scoble fanboy, I would love that he posts every event in his busy life to his Twitter channel.
Last week I left a trackback on Scobleizer, and I think Robert might have Twittered it, for whatever reason. At least I know that two of the referrers were
http://twitter.com/Scobleizer (etc).
If Robert was the originator, he certainly has some fanboys (and girls) out there, because I got referred by 8 Twitter URLs for a total of 55 requests. For my newish, scantily-read blog, this is a flood.
Since I need to know how readers get to my blog, I’m going to have to check out Twitter. At the prospect of which I sigh, even though the reason (increased traffic on my blog) makes me smile big-time.