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Is your Twitter obsession costing you traffic ?

Jul 21

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Don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter. I would not have written about it as early as January 2008 and compiled a list of the Top Travel Twitterers if I didn’t.

Yet when I looked at the traffic of Overheard While Traveling, the last site I launched, the traffic sent my way sent by Twitter was dwarfed by the number of visitors the site got from Stumbleupon.

Overheard While Traveling. First Month Traffic by referers

Overheard While Traveling. First Month Traffic by referers

So shall I spend more time on Stumbleupon and less on Twitter ?

A good starting point for the Travel Bloggers interested in finding out more about Stumbleupon is the Travelexchange Stumble Upon group.

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How Four Seasons Hotels Use Twitter

Jun 16

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One of the first interview from Robert Scoble new venture Building43

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Video: “Just Landed in…”

May 13

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Just Landed – 36 Hours from blprnt on Vimeo.

“This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta’s Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time.” [via John Chow].

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Speak German ? Check the localised Travel Twitterers list !

Dec 1

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Martin Shobert, from the Austrian Tourism Blog, published an equivalent to the Top Travel Twitterers you should follow for the German speaking world. There is only 23 users listed, but if you speak the language and you have reisefeber, it’s probably a good idea to bulk follow them.

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The Power of Twitter

Nov 30

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I launched Voyageek last Thursday. The blog had only one article and the set up was not finished (I still have to figure out how to redirect voyageek.com to voyageek.com/blog for example). But I decided to share the link on Twitter… and got a first hand experience at something going viral. The link was retweeted, the original post got heavily commented, and the article ended up being republished on the travel industry publication Travolution ! I couldn’t imagine a better start. This is very encouraging.

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Top 50 Travel Twitterers you should follow

Nov 27

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Travel fanatic ? Forget about travel magazines, blogs or books…If you want to connect with other web savvy travelers or travel professionals, all you need is to follow the right twitterers !

In no particular order :

Thanks to Vincent for the image

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