Is twitter a waste of time to gain traffic

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi i am wondering what people's thoughts are with reference to twitter. I use twitter and enjoy twitter but i have never had any traffic from twitter. I use facebook which i am not a fan of and i get a lot of traffic from it.

Just wondering if there is a knack to getting traffic from twitter or are other people finding out the same as me that twitter does nothing to generate traffic or increase your profile

[Zoolander]

My sister works for a large marketing company and says twitter is a waste of time. Although as my sister she has her familial responsibilty to poo poo anything I suggest / ask.  I'm pleased Facebook is going well I have yet to get onto that one.

On a tangent if FaceBook and Twitter merged you would have....Twit Book, Face Twit or maybe Twit Face

Interestingly all 3 of these are already taken for the best tld's lol

[bruki]

I agree with Arpeggio. Keep Facebook and signup with Google+ instead Twitter.

[KeriMorgret]

I think the answer is different for each business. For SEOmoz, Twitter is our primary social channel. That's where people come to ask us questions, where we promote our posts, announce site outages, etc. Our customers use Facebook to communicate with us about 1/10 as much as they do Twitter regarding our site. I don't have the traffic stats in front of me, but I know for communicating with our customers, Twitter beats Facebook hands down.

And I know for other companies it is just the opposite. They'll have all kinds of conversations with their customers on Facebook, and nobody talks to their Twitter account. Try it out, see what works for you.