When I was talking Jack
into blogging, I said, “I touch 200,000 people twice a week.”
He said, “How do you
know?”
I said, “I counted.”
A month later, he told me
a post had gone to a quarter of a million people. I said, “That’s
nice.” I wasn’t going to take the bait. He was planning to tell
me that he had counted.
My metrics are making a
count when something major changes. Not weekly, not monthly, and
often not annually.
I thanked the tweeter who
replied, would I retweet their stuff?
Nothing wrong with that.
What’s the metric? Before I jump in, I want to know how much is
enough.
Response? “World
domination”
Say what? Well, that’s
not coming from my twitter following!
Then I checked and saw I
had close to ten times the following on Google
Plus. Honest Officer, I have no idea how that happened.
I also prefer monitoring
the incoming stream in Google Plus because I can see more of the
posts without clicking on them. Twitter has an art form of attention
grabbing headlines that are more interesting than the underlying
posts.
I know my Plus followers.
They have built some space with what they know, what interests them.
My Twitter followers are often incomprehensible, although I suspect
more than a few are followers of Charles Ponzi.
I have a sense of pressure
that I’m wasting time when I read on the Internet. Turns out I am
covering much more ground per minute, and having the search box right
on the browser means I don’t have any research tasks waiting when I
am done.
I can read a newspaper in
15 minutes. I cover much more ground reading the Plus
stream or Reader.
We’ve noticed that there
is a definite crewe saying, “I never see Google Plus. They’re not
doing so well.” We’ve also noticed there is a 100% correlation
with them not having a plus page.
The most common response
from Plus users is that they had no great expectations of Google
Plus, but it was easy to set up and they use stream, hangout,
photos or whatever feature more than they had expected they would.
Google Plus is quietly
making gains. How are you moving up?
