I've been on Twitter for over 4 years now. Time flies if you're having a good time. Apart from having a good time, this platform helps me on a daily basis to evolve and improve my blog. Twitter and blog Fotolia photo rights I don't need more social networks because consumer email list my strategy is to follow a simple line without having to accumulate many tasks that in the end contribute little or nothing. I am "married" to Twitter and at the moment it doesn't seem that another will come to take this position away from it, seeing how much it is contributing to me. Contents [ hide ] 1 Ideas for new posts 2 Direct consumer email list and unfiltered feedback from readers 3 Broadcast channel to capture new visitors and readers 4 Impact on SEO thanks to the increasing number of retweets Ideas for new posts When I'm short of inspiration I ask people who follow me on Twitter to see if they have a good idea for a new post. There are always many suggestions coming. In the vast majority of cases, these are specific doubts to solve an individual problem. Although I don't always pick up an idea launched by Twitter, this exchange is enough to spark a creative spark in my brain that gives me the "vision" for the post I'm going to write. Direct, unfiltered feedback from consumer email list readers People no longer comment on blogs . For the vast majority of users, it is more comfortable to give immediate feedback through Twitter. On the one hand it is a very valuable channel to establish communication with readers, on the other hand it is a disadvantage because as a blogger you would like that to happen in your blog. It is also true that conversations on Twitter are more immediate and faster, so opinions and points of view can be exchanged much more directly than through the comments field. Broadcast channel to attract new visitors and readers Twitter is consumer email list not a channel that works miracles. At first it is difficult to take advantage of this source of traffic. For this you simply lack the critical mass of followers. If you have 100 followers and you launch a new article, it does not necessarily mean that you will have 100 visits. There are exceptions where for some reason you hit consumer email list the nail on the head and have published a viral post that even drives thousands of people to your site. On average they will be more like 5-15. In my early days, Twitter generated an average of 300-400 visits per day. With less activity than before and triple the number of followers, it now generates less traffic in quantity but in quality.