Comments on: The business use of Twitter http://www.simplyzesty.com/social-media/twitter/twitter-stats/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=twitter-stats Building your brand through social media Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barney Austen http://www.simplyzesty.com/social-media/twitter/twitter-stats/#comment-8314 Barney Austen Mon, 24 May 2010 08:56:35 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=9077#comment-8314 Hi Lauren. This is an interesting insight, thanks for sharing. I would also say the immediacy thing is the key to people using twitter for doing research on products/services. I personally have never used Facebook for finding a company/product and even though my own company page is up there, I think my perception is that it is a "personal" site. My tools of choice for company research now are google, linkedin and twitter - the order very much depending on what I am looking for. Not sure when/if that will ever change to include facebook - possibly a bad decision? Best Hi Lauren. This is an interesting insight, thanks for sharing. I would also say the immediacy thing is the key to people using twitter for doing research on products/services. I personally have never used Facebook for finding a company/product and even though my own company page is up there, I think my perception is that it is a “personal” site.
My tools of choice for company research now are google, linkedin and twitter – the order very much depending on what I am looking for. Not sure when/if that will ever change to include facebook – possibly a bad decision?
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]]> By: Joe http://www.simplyzesty.com/social-media/twitter/twitter-stats/#comment-8241 Joe Thu, 20 May 2010 20:26:48 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=9077#comment-8241 Thanks Lisa and Lauren :). Facebook does seem to have taken a polarising decision, maybe moving towards the social web more(facebook connect related i.e. pandora) and left the goodies for twitter in a business sense. I would love to see some figures on the top 50 companies of facebook and their shift in fan/like sense. Your right there Lauren, I wish I was a fly on the wall on those meetings for sure. Thanks Lisa and Lauren :) . Facebook does seem to have taken a polarising decision, maybe moving towards the social web more(facebook connect related i.e. pandora) and left the goodies for twitter in a business sense. I would love to see some figures on the top 50 companies of facebook and their shift in fan/like sense.
Your right there Lauren, I wish I was a fly on the wall on those meetings for sure.

]]> By: Lauren Fisher http://www.simplyzesty.com/social-media/twitter/twitter-stats/#comment-8239 Lauren Fisher Thu, 20 May 2010 17:27:29 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=9077#comment-8239 Very good points Joe. You're right about the anonymity - I'm sure this is a big factor. Though I've seen some fairly choice comments aimed at businesses on Facebook! I'm fascinated by the whole semantic issue around 'Like' on Facebook. It essentially boiled down to just being a language change and I would love to know the meetings that were had to settle on this. Very good points Joe. You’re right about the anonymity – I’m sure this is a big factor. Though I’ve seen some fairly choice comments aimed at businesses on Facebook! I’m fascinated by the whole semantic issue around ‘Like’ on Facebook. It essentially boiled down to just being a language change and I would love to know the meetings that were had to settle on this.

]]> By: Lisa Byrne http://www.simplyzesty.com/social-media/twitter/twitter-stats/#comment-8237 Lisa Byrne Thu, 20 May 2010 15:27:29 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=9077#comment-8237 I think Joe summed it up perfectly! I think Joe summed it up perfectly!

]]> By: Joe http://www.simplyzesty.com/social-media/twitter/twitter-stats/#comment-8234 Joe Thu, 20 May 2010 13:58:14 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=9077#comment-8234 As you said the immediacy I think is a factor and also your right on the mixing business with personal thing. Some people would rather be anonymous via a twitter username when complaining about a business rather than a have their name attached to the complaint if done via facebook. Also like is a very general term maybe just semantics but 'like' is related to positive so you put people into that camp whereas follow could be positive or negative but just have an interest. As you said the immediacy I think is a factor and also your right on the mixing business with personal thing.

Some people would rather be anonymous via a twitter username when complaining about a business rather than a have their name attached to the complaint if done via facebook. Also like is a very general term maybe just semantics but ‘like’ is related to positive so you put people into that camp whereas follow could be positive or negative but just have an interest.

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