Twitter is becoming bad for porn traffic
Hey everyone,
I was curious how many of you use twitter for promoting. I know I sure do. I've noticed over the last year though things have been on a downturn in terms of traffic coming from twitter.
I get a decent number of retweets and likes etc, and am currently at 118K followers for my main twitter account. The last 28 days I've done 277 tweets for 3.51 Million impressions and 419K profile visits.
Originally I would use a nice .jpg picture as a preview pic in the tweet to try and entice people to coming over to check out the FHG or video. It was great. After a while twitter upgraded their service to allow for animated .gifs.
Wow did that ever increase the traffic coming in, especially since I would make my own custom animated gifs from the preview content and it would bring lots of people over, especially since I had custom animated gifs that nobody else did.
But then...
Twitter started allowing 30 second videos. That's when I started to notice the traffic starting to level off a little bit. My twitter analytics were all still in the positive gains though. I was gaining more followers but less of them were using the links to come to my site.
Shortly thereafter twitter increased their service to allow videos up to 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Since then I've noticed a big downturn in traffic coming to my site from Twitter. My analytics show I'm still gaining but people just aren't leaving twitter now.
The reason they are not leaving twitter any longer (I think) is because they no longer have to. They can just watch porn on twitter now, just find an account and check their feed and you have a semi-curated niche porn tube.
118K sounds like a lot of followers but amongst my friends on twitter, I'm the small guy. I have friends from my level all the way up to 956K followers.
I see lots of people posting FULL videos these days - splitting them into 2 min 30 second chunks. Most of the time the people doing this don't even link back to their website, to a FHG, or to anything. Some of them I don't think are even affiliated with any porn company at all. It's like they are going for a high score where the number of followers they have is the points.
Then yesterday and today I saw a 9 minute long video on twitter and a 6 minute one.
This can't be good for business.. while it is worse for small affiliates, I think it's also bad for the companies because even though they are getting lots of free promo (Watermarks are almost always left on the videos at least), less and less people are leaving twitter to come buy a membership. They are just watching it all free on Twitter now..
What do you all think or say about this? I have no idea about it myself.
Do the companies know this is a thing that has been happening? What do affiliate managers say about this? I'm sure it must be against ToS of most affiliate programs but I just don't know what to do or think.
Anyone else noticing this recent trend?
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