I finally found a use for Twitter which combines my love for knocking headline ideas around. Check out these twitter headlines.
Basically, I get a headline idea which I think worthy of the Twitter mosh pit and I throw it in. If I get feedback great, if not, the headline needs serious work. Even is the response is, “Dude, you’re a real weirdo coming up with that”, it’s all good because for a headline to invoke response is great, even revulsion is fine as long as curiosity is piqued.
We are not here to write a great novel or give Tolstoy a run for his money. We are here to attract peoples attention and somehow get them to do stuff. In my case with the old linkbait, it’s getting them to give up a link, someone poked fun recently as one of my pieces did not make the front page of digg. Well, it got a good, solid pr6 link from an aged authority blog and that’s what this is all about. It may not be pretty, it wont win a Pulitzer but as long as it gets the link, who cares.
But Twitter is very useful as I get instant feedback and as I have nearly 700 followers, nearly all in the online marketing space it is very useful.
I am creating a ton of example headlines to give away in my linkbait coaching program, I have seen a real need for clients to get up to speed with the technique and get a jump start with killer headlines. People can now hire their very own, human headline generating system for the daily price of a mocha.
Every so often I will throw one into the Twitter mosh pit and see what comes back.
If you have any suggestions on headlines to explore, let me know in the comments.
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Great idea.
30 second market research. With just a few twitter post you could somewhat confidently identify the most click-worthy blog post title, article title, ebook name…
I love it. I must remember to try this out for my next blog post.
Thanks for sharing.
Sean
Nice idea! I will surely remember this one..^^ next time I logged on to Twitter..I might as well give it a try!
I often do use Twitter to promote my post or simply want to let my friends know I have something new to offer.
I must be the worst twitterer. I have to yet find the true value in twitter. Maybe I will see it soon.
At last. A worthwhile use for Twitter. Usually when I hear people talking about Twitter, I have the same reaction as I have to people talking about Dungeons and Dragons, which is: get a life.
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