Comments on: Is Twitter Irrelevant For Brands? http://brandsavant.com/is-twitter-irrelevant-for-brands/ Gaining Insight From Social Media Data Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aditya Banerjee http://brandsavant.com/is-twitter-irrelevant-for-brands/comment-page-1/#comment-849 Aditya Banerjee Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:16:19 +0000 http://brandsavant.com/?p=630#comment-849 That is putting things in perspective. In fact, Darrell Huff had stated something pretty similar in his book "How to lie with statistics" over 50 years ago :-) That is putting things in perspective. In fact, Darrell Huff had stated something pretty similar in his book “How to lie with statistics” over 50 years ago :-)

]]> By: Jonathan Sherman http://brandsavant.com/is-twitter-irrelevant-for-brands/comment-page-1/#comment-841 Jonathan Sherman Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:41:47 +0000 http://brandsavant.com/?p=630#comment-841 Well said. What really drove me crazy is they said that they analyzed "more than 1800 tweets". Mashable posted a story today that (unofficially) Twitter has hit 20 billion tweets and the company itself acknowledges that there is more than 50 million tweets a day. See the article here: http://mashable.com/2010/07/31/twitter-hits-20-billion-tweets/ Well said. What really drove me crazy is they said that they analyzed “more than 1800 tweets”. Mashable posted a story today that (unofficially) Twitter has hit 20 billion tweets and the company itself acknowledges that there is more than 50 million tweets a day. See the article here: http://mashable.com/2010/07/31/twitter-hits-20-billion-tweets/

]]> By: Claire Boyles http://brandsavant.com/is-twitter-irrelevant-for-brands/comment-page-1/#comment-838 Claire Boyles Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:40:01 +0000 http://brandsavant.com/?p=630#comment-838 Drawing a conclusion that Twitter is irrelevant for brands is like saying "Only 12% of the time people talk, they mention brands, therefore word of mouth can't be a good method of advertising" It's not the first piece of research of it's kind, but lets hope, as you suggested that the next ones will be more intelligent, and who knows, may even draw intelligent conclusions... Drawing a conclusion that Twitter is irrelevant for brands is like saying “Only 12% of the time people talk, they mention brands, therefore word of mouth can’t be a good method of advertising”

It’s not the first piece of research of it’s kind, but lets hope, as you suggested that the next ones will be more intelligent, and who knows, may even draw intelligent conclusions…

]]> By: Tom Webster http://brandsavant.com/is-twitter-irrelevant-for-brands/comment-page-1/#comment-835 Tom Webster Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:43:43 +0000 http://brandsavant.com/?p=630#comment-835 Much obliged, Rick. Gotta start cutting these posts down to those last lines only :) Much obliged, Rick. Gotta start cutting these posts down to those last lines only :)

]]> By: Rick http://brandsavant.com/is-twitter-irrelevant-for-brands/comment-page-1/#comment-834 Rick Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:36:27 +0000 http://brandsavant.com/?p=630#comment-834 Statistically correct. Good piece - but that last line/quote is worth the price of admission for me. Thanks. Statistically correct. Good piece – but that last line/quote is worth the price of admission for me. Thanks.

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