You can download the PDF file for free by registering to receive\u00a0my monthly newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\nIn this six page guide you will find my candid insights and recommendations on how frequently you should update Twitter and Facebook to grow your follower\/fan base as well as my special insights on using both platforms.<\/p>\n
To develop the insights for this guide, I watched 23 different Facebook and Twitter accounts for a period of three months and monitored over 2,865 status updates. I personally consider this a fairly small data set, but it is large enough to show some important trends that warrant consideration and further discussion.<\/p>\n
As the clients that my firm writes for, are in diverse markets, purchase different service engagement levels, and have unique starting levels of follower\/fans, it is impossible to state unequivocally how to specifically grow a social networking account from my data. However, there are some statistical averages and trends that I have found and wanted to share them with you.<\/p>\n
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