Inside LabourStart

I read a book recently called Twitter Power and it is basically a guide to businesses on how to use Twitter for marketing.  It had several interesting ideas some of which I’ve implemented, and over the last few days (and the next few), I’m trying out a number of third party features they recommended.  Yesterday, for example, I tested Twitpic — a way to publish photos via Twitter.  I’ve shared details of how to do that with Derek Blackadder, who does our daily photo for LabourStart.  Today I tested TwitterCounter This shows that while we are growing, and LabourStart has more followers than 99% of Twitter users, we could grow much faster.  As of this morning, we’re at 1,585 followers.  While this isn’t even close to being as large as our mailing lists, it’s nothing to be sneered at either.  Let’s grow the number of followers.