In the News
When launching IM Feeds, our goal was to get a moderate amount of attention to see how our systems are holding up and get some better statistics about bottlenecks/ performance issues. And thanks to social media it’s never been easier to get your name out and start getting early adopters! Digg, Reddit and Slashdot were the mediums of choice to get the ball rolling, and after only a few submissions other people started picking it up and posting it on their blogs and spreading it through social bookmarking sites. Much to our surprise, the biggest traffic source ended up coming from Stumble Upon, followed by a variety of blogs and Twitter users that found out about IM Feeds through KillerStartups.
To track our news coverage, we used Google Analytics for identifying website/ blog referrals, while Summize was used to stay on-top of Twitter traffic. The biggest surprise that came out of this analysis though was how fast information travels around the world. Some of our currently most active users are from China, India, Paraguay and many other non-English speaking countries. And thanks to this revelation we’re making internationalization a priority for our next release, alongside making it even easier to add and manage RSS alerts.
Hope this provides a slight glimpse into the world of free social media advertising!
IM Feeds Team
PS: Here are just a few of the various, diverse websites/ blogs/ twitters that have mentioned IM Feeds recently: