Within seconds.
Yes, Twitter can send you traffic within a few seconds.
Traffic Spikes Quickly & Fades Away
Traffic from Twitter spikes soon after you post a tweet and reaches its high point usually within 30 minutes.
After an hour the traffic dwindles.
Test Case #1
Tweeted: 9:30 AM, March 1, 2010
Test Case #2
URL: http://nickstraffictricks.com/1162_8-ways-to-get-indexed-by-google-super-fast/
Tweeted: 2:30 PM, March 1, 2010
ReTweets are very powerful
You can see how you get a quick surge of traffic when you post something to twitter. But then it fades out pretty fast.
Imagine if what you tweeted was so awesome that someone found it and retweeted it every 5 minutes! You could have a surge of traffic every 5 minutes and this could go on for hours or days.
Things that people consistently retweet can get 1,000 times more traffic than a post that never gets retweeted.
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Twitter does bring some nice traffic, but I didn't think it was as large as you show in your graphs. That is really interesting Nick! Imagine how big those spikes will be when you have 1000 twitter followers.
When I have 1000 followers I hope that this spikes are three times as high!
Hi Nick, i have 5000 followers but there are only few clicks in my site what do you think is the problem? they are not interested? my niche is about technology, gadgets. thank you
Vins
It sounds like you don't have a very good relationship with your followers. Your comment actually inspired a blog post I just wrote: http://nickstraffictricks.com/2486_the-number-of-…
That would be great wouldn't it! I really don't use my Twitter as much as I should – the majority of my traffic is search engines.
Maybe you should try getting traffic from twitter. Try it out and let us know how it goes.