So I've finally begun to explore Twitter, and followed how information content is acted up.
And so far, I'm seeing response rates as pitiful.
I had a Tweet retweeted in front of about 20K people to a forum thread, and saw about 200 actual clickthroughs from this.
I'm finding similar on other information content being linked to from other people.
My impression so far is that Twitter is basically acting like an email list - but that most of the emails are so full of crap most followers have long fatigued from caring from such notices.
I figure, by analogy, if you are on an email list that sends you 10 emails a day, mostly chatter about what they're having for lunch and similar banality, how long would you pay attention to that?
I'm basically wondering if I'm coming out on the overly-cynical side of this, or whether Twitter has some kind of proven CTA statistics based on normal use (as a follower) as opposed to special offers (promoted Tweets).