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Live photo blogging, immediacy and click-throughs
2 comments      Added on 11/26/07 by Kris
Right now I am really hung up on live photo blogging. Something is changing in the way that we interact online. The dynamic it is a changing.

My previous post is a perfect example of this but I think it has legs for where we are online with real-time micro blogging and subscription media. It is less intrusive for the audience as they have decided to participate by subscribing or friending you in an application. Say, something like Twitter.

I guess what makes this so poignant for me, using Twitter as an example are the links that I create for the tweets are done with the source code for turo.us, a url shortening site that Mike Marusin developed, that allows me to count click-throughs. From what I can tell from these counts and photo views at flickr, they are disproportionally higher than the number that I would normally receive from the same links in my sites.

I'm not sure why this is but I can guess that the immediacy of the interaction in Twitter and the fact that people made the effort to subscribe to me has something to do with it. Friends and even strangers subscribe to me, just like they would as part of any social network to be updated with anything that I share. They trust me. A trust not provided by an RSS feed but a more personal connection

In this context of immediacy and real-time interaction I think that trust matters most to raising the number of click-throughs. These links are more successful because they aren't passive links buried in a blog post. They are right up front and time sensitive. Maybe these links act as a call to action?

Set me straight if you think I am crazy.
  

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  Mike Marusin  turo.us  twitter links  immediacy  click-throughs  live photo blogging  






2 Comments
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I love the concept of live photoblogging, and if I had an internet capable phone and the money for the monthly service to use it, I'd be doing it all the time.

your stream of photoblogging your goodwill adventure just left me frustrated because I didn't have the right kind of phone AND I was visiting inlaws in the sticks where I HAD NO INTERNET WHATSOEVER!!!!

 
Posted by: EvilScienceChick  at: 4:17pm 11/26/2007  
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I don't think you're crazy! :) If you choose to follow someone on Twitter it's more than likely going to be someone you know, have heard of, or someone who has the same interests/career as you.

You know that the tweets coming from these people are going to be not only relevant to what you're interested in, but also interesting enough for someone to bother to Tweet the link.

I also agree that Time is a factor and definitely does count as a call to action. Especially as more people start using Apps such as Twhirl for real time Tweeting.

 
Posted by: Lauren  at: 11:20am 03/10/2009  

 
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