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nl on Oct 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market

I've found Twitter to be remarkably useless for marketing

The biggest event for me on Twitter was when @glinner.. tweeted a recommendation

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MercuryCreative on Oct 26, 2011 | [–]

The app was posted to a Twitter account with 150,000 followers. A reach that large only produced 40 sales (0.027% conversion). OP is using it as an example of how ineffective Twitter is as a marketing avenue. It's not an example of cognitive dissonance.

Angostura on Oct 26, 2011 | [–]

... or indeed without reading, apparently.

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