Experiments

This week I tried two new things. One brought the account more followers, the other was more of an experiment that needs work.

The first thing I did was set up searches for the name Trapit. Along with a bunch of tweets in a language I didn't recognize, and some misspelled spam, I found a whole community of people tweeting about Trapit. A lot of these people are in the education industry and have blogs associated with their Twitter accounts. The first thing I did was to follow as many of these people as I could. This brought a serious spike in TrapitDiscovers followers. It also gave me a whole group of blogs to go through and see whether or not they're in Trapit and if they could be tweeted about. I'm in the process of sifting through those now.

The second thing was I tried to develop a hashtag... and it accomplished one of my goals, but otherwise needs more work. My first goal was to save characters in each tweet and get across the fact that the source I was tweeting about was a Trapit discovery. So the hashtag was #TrapitDiscovery. My second goal was to try and get people to start using the hashtag whenever they posted about an article they discovered via Trapit. I used the hashtag both with the TrapitDiscovers account and with my own account. However, I need a way to get more people to start using the hashtag. I thought about just tweeting about it, but I'd rather it get more use before I start publicizing it. I'm going to see if I can get the Trapit team in on this (or help developing a better hashtag to use) before I go any further.