You’re very welcome. You make the second Joomla fan I’ve replied to today. Are you also using WordPress or can you use WP plugins in Joomla sites?
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While any plugin can cause issues we have been running this one for a while now with no problems. We did recently remove TwitThis because it was slowing down page loads.
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Twitter does drive traffic and you can use it to find niche or geo-specific interested people. There is more about that in the post How to Geo-Target Twitter.

I would be interested in hearing about whether installing a chat room increases visits and especially sales. If your potential buyers like to chat while they shop that could be a great idea. I am surprised I haven’t read any studies about it. I’ll keep my eyes open.
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I suspect that if you can use Joomla perhaps you can add the same functionality. We use WordPress because it offers the most features and plugins and we don’t have to write them ourselves.
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Twitter is not likely to become unfashionable any time soon. While it would be a bad thing to have the plug pulled on one of your accounts what happens is that relationships you participate in don’t exist only on that site. Most influential users of Social Media are active on multiple sites.

Remember that Social Networking is primarily about Networking. Relationships may start at Twitter or on another site but continue on all the other sites you frequent and on your own too. It is something like branding. When one site starts losing popularity you should already be active and pull followers from it over to where you moving.

You can not usually sell directly using Social Networking sites and you must expect traffic from them to only convert as well as content – not search.
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Making it easy for me to follow my readers was one of my major motivations for having it added here. Having the ID there makes it easy to pop in, check over their latest posts and RT the best one. That is part of my usual strategy and I just did it for you.
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Thank you. The Twitter ID field moves across niches. Each blog that adds it can contribute to others doing the same. A post I could share in Social Networking sites and on Twitter could speed up the process.
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Your comment gave me a laugh. Decisions we make, what we recommend, how we spend our money – all of these can improve the world. No small business has the deep pockets of multi-national Corporations and few have the ear of the major media.

The solution is for each individual to make a difference. Some of us spend much of our time sharing quality content and sending potential business to small companies as I just did by sharing your blog on Twitter, FriendFeed and cliKball. You might look for some extra traffic from those sources today.
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Yes, autofollow would be great; however, Twitter has been eliminating some autofollow options and I haven’t seen that option for this or any similar plugin.
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I would also recommend the posts about How to Start a Successful Blog Based Business and Blogging Best Practices: Enabling Your Readers to Subscribe to Comments.
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