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15th July 2009 - Link Blog

You should follow me on Twitter. Dustin Curtis did a simple A/B testing experiment on his blog and found that the text “you should follow me on Twitter” had the highest click-through rate—173% more effective than “I’m on Twitter”.

Posted 15th July 2009 at 10:43 am

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