iPhone: A poor man's print-screen

I have only been tapping out rambling nonsense on Twitter for a matter of weeks and only with any real regularity over the past few days, but already I seem to be appearing fairly prominently in Google. Clever me.

I noticed in my Google Analytics report that someone had arrived at my ClickMap post as a result of a fairly basic Google search. On investigation, there I was at 10th place on the first page of results for a query of “Omniture click map”. How can this be? Was it my initial scathing comment? A freak act of Google strangeness? Or just standard Twitter hype waving its long heavily disfigured arm around?

I am not exactly complaining but am keen to understand how this works, not least so that i can take advantage for tweets I actually want people to read. Firstly, a lot more than 10 people have written authoritatively about ClickMap is far more than 140 characters, so that is odd to start with. Secondly, a tweet is just a tweet, once its out there it is soon forgotten. Or at least that’s what i thought. It’s not like there is ever much content for anyone to warrant linking to, so i can’t be benefitting from that kind of popularity.

All the lessons of good SEO seem to be thrown out of the window here. A few retweets and a bit of meta data might push me above Omniture itself. I am sure they would love that. The might of a corporate website, dwarfed by the 140 character meanderings of my own creation. Perhaps Twitter content is weighted more strongly than other pages. the test would be to add similar comments to forums, blogs and other influential sources and see who wins.

Yesterday i was amazed at the fast response of the Omniture care team. But in the context of this bizarre occurrence it is hardly surprising they would want to come to my aid, which they were able to do again today. Brilliant. if only all corporates were able to get back to you in less than a minute regardless of the time of day or nature of the question, things would be much simpler.