A new report from LinkedIn Research Network and Harris Interactive paints a worrisome picture for Twitter. While the research found that 83% of advertisers were familiar with Twitter (and you have to question who the other 17% are!), only 8% of advertisers and consumers think it is a “very effective” promotion tool.
In addition to the 8% of advertisers who said Twitter was very effective for promotion, 50% said it was somewhat effective. More than three in 10 (34%) said it was not very effective and 8% felt it was not effective at all.
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A common mistake that many advertisers make is that they think that all social networks are the same. That the ad campaign they have for Facebook will work on MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn.
The problem with that approach is that social networkers utilize these sites in different ways depending on their age. So one blanket campaign across the different networks is not effective.
For example, according to Anderson Analytics, Generation Z (13-to-14-year-old) social network users were more likely to use MySpace than Facebook. Only 9% of them used Twitter and none used LinkedIn.
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Last week I blogged about the “Consumer Internet Barometer” study and what it showed Social Networks Demographics.
Within the same report there was some very interesting data about Twitter users and why they use that social network site. Almost half of all users (41.6%) are using Twitter for that purpose while 29.1% used it to update their status, 25.8% to find news and stay updated, 21.7% for work purposes and 9.4% for research.
If so many people are using Twitter (and Facebook to some extent) to keep in contact with friends and family, that might explain why so many companies are struggling to make money using Twitter. Read more... (109 words, 1 image, estimated 26 secs reading time)
There is a new study out called the “Consumer Internet Barometer” that has some very interesting insights about Twitter, Facebook and who uses social networks. Throughout the week I will be highlighting several of the points that the Consumer Internet Barometer found.
One interesting demographic point was that nearly one-half of females visited social networking sites, compared with 37.6% of men. And that more than 70% of Internet users under age 35 browsed social networks.
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