Social Networking (Twitter, Facebook) + Forums

by Doctor Inferno Wed 2 Sep - 11:51

I have noticed that more and more forum admins are using Twitter to promote their forums, broadcast updates about the forum or simply to follow the trend in having Twitter as part of the website.

Just curious if you are using this method to promote the forum, have this method have worked for any you guys? Or what do you use Twitter in this case for?

by dotDavid Wed 2 Sep - 12:22

The link is here: http://twitter.com/forumotion/ so they must be.

by Doctor Inferno Wed 2 Sep - 13:03

I'm not talking about Forumotion alone.

by **Shadow** Wed 2 Sep - 13:19

Anyway for Forumotion it doesn't work that well, i don't manage to get as many followers as you beu

by dotDavid Wed 2 Sep - 13:44

Oh my bad...

I use it, but drastically failing. I get many views, just no members. Sad

by karkooshy Mon 14 Sep - 4:40

yeah I tried it out Smile

Had better luck with facebook (join a large group about what my forum's about and promote my site there lol!

- and get some friends xP)

yeah twitter didn't do much for my forum
but all popular ones have a "follow us on twitter" page.. so I figured...
eh.. .xD

by Codyy Wed 16 Sep - 4:42

my website does twitter, myspace, and facebook...

twitter.com/clubfaishare

>>> my website on twitter and myspce & facebook DOES help! i sent an announcement out, and 10 mins latter, i broke my "most users online ever" record. it had jumped +5. it was 10. its now 15.

>>>>> i also have a system setup where, subscribed users get TEXT MSGS. & >>>>> emails INSTANTLY wen i send out an announcement.

by Jalokim Wed 16 Sep - 15:13

Well it all comes down to exactly how you use twitter and what content you have on your forum.

If you use twitter only to redirect to other sites , you will only get a few new followers.
If you have good content on your forum and advertise it with twitter, there is a good chance you can gain new members.

But if you type in a load of spam and add a link to your forum you will also "break your forum record"
Twitter API applications have bots that track down links and automatically visit them.

So after posting a tweet and you check your whose online, don't get happy at the increase of users. Its most probably bots.
But these bots are not negative. Whether a human or bot enters you site its counted as a visit. And page visits is a big factor in site promotion.

So once again twitter depends on the data you have on your forum.
when I browse tweets and get linked to awesome sites , with awesome content I bookmark them... So the twitter system works, but to what extent depends solely on how you run your site and what content you have

by Doctor Inferno Wed 16 Sep - 17:24

I also have a Facebook fan page for my site. It helps a lot especially in gaining visitor's trust because of the good comments members post on the Wall.

But overall, I'd say these two methods don't give much new members to the site, but it makes my members come back.

by Blofeld Wed 16 Sep - 19:57

Typlo wrote:Anyway for Forumotion it doesn't work that well, i don't manage to get as many followers as you

I only have 55+ following my site on twitter so your lucky and I started my account up way before you. Laughing

by roflrocket Wed 23 Sep - 8:06

I use Myspace and Twitter with TwitterFeed. Twitterfeed lets you feed your rss feed to your Twitter. I have my Twitter and Myspace synced so the feed from my forum goes to my twitter and my myspace.

If you want to do this you need:
-a Twitter account
-a twitterfeed account

Sign up for Twitter and Twitterfeed (in that order) then for the feed link put: http://yourforum.forumurl.com/rss or: http://www.yourforum.com/rss.

If you want to link your twitter to your myspace, click on My Account then click on Sync.

by dvdv882 Wed 28 Jul - 13:10

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by SusieSmith13 Tue 3 Aug - 7:31

I use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Myspace to advertise my forum and my websites. I also use my signature on some forums and email accounts to advertise them.

My forum is very new so I don't know how well the advertising is working for it. My sites definitely get more hits as a result. If it isn't against the rules on a site, I advertise whenever and wherever I can.

by fan4me Sun 31 Oct - 16:23

I use Twitter to promote my forum mostly. About 3/4 of my members i got from twitter.

by WayneCAlderman Wed 10 Nov - 15:44

on twitter I have 1,971 following and 565 followers if I can get my forum back up then I can probably get more people here

by MC WILDCHILD Thu 11 Nov - 18:36

Hey Cant get My Facebook Login Application On My Forums Wen ever Someone clicks on it it says\

API Error Code: 100
API Error Description: Invalid parameter
Error Message: next is not owned by the application.

Can Anyone help me please !!!!

by EvanP Sun 14 Nov - 15:59

I use Twitter and Facebook to promote my forums, they're great sites to promote on.

by Aiken Tue 28 Dec - 10:08

Hi, i will try it. now i am using forums, face book, twitter, my space, linked in.

Link Removed

by korecordings Wed 5 Jan - 22:20

We use all forms of Social Networking to promote our forum.

Facebook, myspace, twitter, etc.

Its free promotion, you cannot go wrong!

by Forumnerd Mon 17 Jan - 23:48

Hi,
I only use forums about greencards and stuff to inform myself about travelling around the world. Still didn't try Forums in social Networks like Facebook or Twitter...

by DanS Mon 25 Apr - 17:47

Doctor Inferno wrote:I have noticed that more and more forum admins are using Twitter to promote their forums, broadcast updates about the forum or simply to follow the trend in having Twitter as part of the website.

Just curious if you are using this method to promote the forum, have this method have worked for any you guys? Or what do you use Twitter in this case for?

I think this method is good only if there is not abuse...difficult for humanity...
If you have only one message on twitter during 1 minute, a lot of peaople can see it and some of them can go to see you website.
BUT it is toxic when there is only this kind of message!
So may administrators ahve no mercy for that kind of message...
I think it's the same for every social networks (old and news) like Facebook, linkedin, foursquare, outlyf...

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by Russel Mon 29 Aug - 12:43

Social Networking helps the foruming a lot to promote forums. I use Facebook and Twitter do it.

by koimaster Thu 1 Sep - 8:52

I use twitter feed to promote the forum. We have a lot of twitter followers. I have tried setting up a facebook feed but for some reason it is not working.

by Cara Mon 28 Nov - 22:57

Doctor Inferno wrote:I have noticed that more and more forum admins are using Twitter to promote their forums, broadcast updates about the forum or simply to follow the trend in having Twitter as part of the website.

Just curious if you are using this method to promote the forum, have this method have worked for any you guys? Or what do you use Twitter in this case for?

I think that Facebook and Twitter help - Twitter especially.

As long as you have plenty of activity in your forums and you have a lot of news to tweet about on Twitter and post on Facebook, then you're going to get more followers and friends which will lead to more members!

by Omu Wed 14 Dec - 19:51

I agree with Cara Smile

Twitter is very good.

by Guest Wed 14 Dec - 22:04

I like facebook more than twitter and the rest. Razz

by Mati Wed 14 Dec - 22:40

Gassy wrote:I like facebook more than twitter and the rest.

I'm with Gassy. Smile

by Lady Draconian Tue 27 Dec - 17:17

We use both twitter and facebook. Though we find our twitter and facebook has more follows/likes than our forum has members! It's quite a pain really but it's good to see support for the site at least. Smile