Broadcast And Track Your Tweets And Pings

I don’t know about you, but I love it when I get a response to tweets, comments or posts I make (hint hint ). But sometimes there’s no response. Not that anyone’s not listening or not reading, but sometimes people are just comfortable with reading such information and that’s okay.

I found a way (thanks to Paul Colligan) that enables you to obtain visible proof that someone’s actually paying attention. By using BudUrl.com and Ping.fm together, not only can you broadcast short messages to many social networks at once, but you can also track to some degree who is getting them and where they’re getting them from.

So I thought I’d send some link love for one of the posts at Masonworld. While viewing the post, I clicked on the bookmarklet for BudUrl which opened up a window providing me with a condensed URL already made and a box for notes.

Once I completed making the shortened URL, I then copied and pasted it over to my Ping.fm account where I had already entered login details for several of my social networks.

From that point, it was a simple matter of entering a small bit of text — just like a tweet — and off it went to ping my networks.

I then went back to BudUrl to check out the stats.

The page refreshed every 10 seconds showing me the IP address of the people who clicked on the link I submitted and when it was clicked on. And if it was possible, I was also shown the referring page or network in this case. It was pretty cool to watch the page fill up with data, which told me there really was somebody on the other end actually responding to what I had submitted.

Just think of the possibilities this could offer you. If you wanted, you could keep track of the pages referred most often, which would indicate the strong networks and the ones that you might not want to spend time on due to a lack of interaction.

Tagged as: Blogging, Marketing, tracking