I have conducted a rather lengthy, albeit non-scientific, case study over the past few weeks on Twitter. A lot has been said about Twitter being the true portal into what society thinks about and cares about. If that is true, then the going green movement takes a backseat to making money.I have a Twitter account(find me here if you would like to follow me) and it has over 7,000 followers. I post on it regularly with most of those posts about the green living movement. I also have a blog about making money online. It is called Free Advice on Making Money Online and I often post on Twitter in relation to that blog too.
I have a statcounter program that shows me how many times people visit my blogs. It tells me where the person visiting my blog came from. If someone came to the blog from Twitter, I know it as well as the time they came.
I started noticing a little over a month ago that my money making blog was getting a much larger number of visitors from twitter than my going green blog was receiving. I started posting both money making and going green links back to back to see what would happen. The results surprised me.
After a few weeks of doing this, I am convinced that people care about going green but making money is a much more pressing desire. Almost every Tweet with a link to my money making blog brought over twice as many visits as the Tweets to this blog.
I know that this is a small sample of people and that it is a very non-scientific model, but I also think that this experiment tells us a lot about what people think about. In fact, the post from the going green blog that got the most visits was about going green to save green. Money talks, doesn't it? I wonder what the results would be if the experiment was conducted between going green and sex.
