In a forum I belong too someone posed the question, “…does anyone think that people actually read their direct messages [DM or DMs hereafter] [on Twitter]?” To which I replied:

I know they do. I used my auto-DMs to send a DM about my brother’s “new” resort that has a “new” web page. I just got an email from him saying, “Just did some searching and came up with no Little Corn Beach & Bungalow hits on the first pages.” So, his traffic isn’t coming from the search engines. He also writes, “Twitter is now number two on the how they found us.” What he doesn’t understand is that the statistics are not recognizing “direct traffic”. I don’t think the statistics are recognizing a click on a DM from something like Tweet Deck as a visit from Twitter. I started sending auto-DMs from my big account @legalbear on 6/6/10 about his resort www.littlecornbb.com to everybody that followed me back. His unique traffic count for May was 886 and for June it was 2251!

Note: If I had something to do, I didn’t follow anybody and hence no DMs were sent; at least very few.

I bought Tweet Attacks on 6/17/10 which allowed me to follow/unfollow with the most ease ever and look what happened to unique visitors when I started using it:

15 Jun 2010 37
16 Jun 2010 58
17 Jun 2010 73
18 Jun 2010 626
19 Jun 2010 374
20 Jun 2010 186
21 Jun 2010 175

There is a graph showing the DMs Social Oomph sent from this account. It seems like the graph indicates that Twitter is hindering the amount of DMs that are being sent.

My brother says he hasn’t had a day off in four months. When I asked him when he was going to build some more units he replied, “I’ve got all I can handle now.”

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