{"id":50,"date":"2009-04-10T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/10\/best-practices-effective-use-of-twitter\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T02:50:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T07:50:59","slug":"best-practices-effective-use-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/10\/best-practices-effective-use-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices — Effective Use of Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this entry, I am going to discuss two organizations: McKinsey Quarterly<\/a> and Brooklyn Museum<\/a>.\u00a0 These two organizations are very different in many ways.\u00a0 But they share one commonality in that they both use Twitter<\/a> very effectively in gathering customer intelligence and strengthening customer relationships.\u00a0 McKinsey Quarterly’s Twitter username is @McKQuarterly<\/a>; and Brooklyn Museum is simply @brooklynmuseum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why is it a good idea?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many companies use Twitter or other microblogging<\/a> tools to bring customers more timely updates about the business.\u00a0 This is what I call a “broadcast” model.\u00a0 While it is useful in its own right, McKinsey Quarterly and Brooklyn Museum went beyond that by practicing the following:<\/p>\n

(1) Attach links to tweets so that users can choose to drill deeper into a topic if they are interested.\u00a0 Not only does this offer a higher level of interactivity to satisfy user needs, but with proper tracking it also provides useful insight on what interests customers.<\/p>\n

(2) Use @replies functionality<\/a> to build a dialogue with customers.\u00a0 For those who are not quite familiar with Twitter, one can add @username into one’s tweet to reply to a user or to refer to a specific user.\u00a0 Both Brooklyn Museum and McKinsey Quarterly closely monitor user comments and use @replies to respond to those comments in a timely fashion.\u00a0 This approach makes users feel appreciated, which encourages future participation and builds loyalty.<\/p>\n

(3) The third tactic that I would like to discuss is used by McKinsey Quarterly.\u00a0 They have turned their twitter account and their large number of followers (7645 as of right now and it’s not hard to imagine the high relevance of these followers)\u00a0 into a marketing research machine.\u00a0 Earlier this year, for example, McKinsey Quarterly published an article on Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work<\/a>.\u00a0 Then using Twitter, they asked their followers what organizations get the most out of Web 2.0.\u00a0 Combined with a special hashtag<\/a> (#web2.0work), they were able to track responses from users.\u00a0 The company then updated the original article based on the ideas they received from the Twitter community (of course they posted a tweet about that update too).\u00a0 Does it get much better than free marketing research?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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