For probably the last six months, maybe longer, none of my tweets have been included in Twitter search—Twitter Search is Failing Us: Is There a Solution? | TrisHusseyDotCom—which is a pretty big problem if I want to get the most out of every link and post I tweet out.
This isn’t about ego, it’s, frankly, about business. With one book on the shelves, another due next month, a third this fall (I’m guessing on the date), and a video series coming out, I need to make sure that I can get the word out as far and wide as I can. There is no doubt that Twitter is essential to that distribution. Just Google isn’t enough it today’s mega-info world.
Well thanks to Twitter support I’m finally back in Twitter’s search results!
So the operative question is: will it make difference?
Just based on the fact that about 7200+ people follow me on Twitter, there should be enough distribution shouldn’t it? Well only if a large number of people retweet something I say.
I think being in search will help people find me, and my books, more easily. Since it’s been only about 24 hours since my tweets are back in the index, I don’t think I can say if there has been a commiserate rise in followers, but this post should be a fair test.
I’ve also tweaked my FeedBurner settings so that hash tags are included in the tweet … so if someone has search for Twitter this post will probably come up.
I’ll keep you posted, because I think this is a pretty interesting test: what happens when you disappear from Twitter search then come back.
And let the searches commence!
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