June 15, 2009
Blogjamaica is now #4 on Twitter in Jamaica, according to the tracking tool twitterholic.com which tracks followers on the leading social media.
Blog Jamaica is a collection of blogs from around the world with Jamaican content. Anyone can submit their blog to be added to this website via the contact form. Our analytics show that Twitter represents 22 % of visitors to the planet (an aggregator for blogs).
Panmedia put Blog Jamaica on Twitter three weeks ago to market the site to users interested in a wide range of voices on Jamaica. Each time a new blog post appears on the site, a link is then posted on Twitter, which followers can click to get directly to the article.
More than six hundred people now follow Blog Jamaica on Twitter. That means every time a new link is posted it reaches out to more than 600 people instantly. In the past three weeks Blog Jamaica has added an average growth of 24 new followers a day. If it maintains its current trend it will have an estimated 1,622 in the next 30 days according to twittercounter.com.
Blog Jamaica is also ranked (#8) on the site wefollow.com. This site ranks blogs based on keywords in content, in this instance Jamaica. Twitterholic ranks twitterers by location and currently tracks 163 in Kingston.
Using Twitter as a free marketing tool is a successful way to increase traffic to any website.