{"id":1672,"date":"2011-08-03T11:41:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2011-08-03T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T16:41:50","slug":"twitter-gate-buy-more-twitter-followers-free-instantly-%e2%80%93-business-marketing-strategy-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2011\/08\/03\/twitter-gate-buy-more-twitter-followers-free-instantly-%e2%80%93-business-marketing-strategy-implications\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Gate &#8211; Buy More Twitter Followers Free Instantly \u2013 Business Marketing Strategy Implications?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week there are stories raging in political circles with allegations the Newt Gingrich (or more likely his Internet strategists) bought or acquired Twitter followers. Seeing a concept I\u2019ve seen whispered in the back of the room at Internet conferences being discussed in a broad and general way in Time magazine makes one wonder if we are witnessing an important inflection point moment.<\/p>\n<p>The article brings something in the bright, bright light that had been hidden in the darkness, the <a href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2011\/08\/03\/report-92-of-newt-gingrichs-twitter-followers-arent-real\/#ixzz1TybI1ksL\">TIME article states<\/a>, \u201c\u2026Newt&#8217;s numbers are way out of the ordinary \u2013 even for a politician. While about 8% of his followers are real, other politicians were deemed to have anywhere 20% to 30% of \u201creal\u201d followers. In comparison, the average Twitter user, like you and me, have anywhere from 35% to 60% real people following them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It makes one wonder where all these non-real followers are coming from and more than a few CEOs are likely reading this article and asking the question, \u201cIs all this investment in social media justified and an activity that will grow my business and improve the bottom line or are there wiser marketing investments to be made?\u201d The answer is not one that will immediately be answerable completely. Before we get into that, a little history is required. Twitter has API\u2019s that allow people to interact with their data to build other tools. For reasons that are completely unclear, the API allowed people to automate certain actions like posting, retweeting, even creation of new accounts via automated programmatic methods.\u00a0 This appears to have helped Twitter grow users to create user adoption rates that were shown to venture capitalists. Some have suggested that certain due diligence steps were missed, I don\u2019t know whether it is true or not. Time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>What this incident has a potential to do is bring this conversation into the boardroom and have serious questions asked like are these 80,000+ Twitter follower social media experts really experts at anything at all? Are all of these investments in social media justified? Shouldn\u2019t I be focused on a well diversified portfolio of relevant marketing activities? What does Klout\u2019s influencer score of 72 for @NewtGingrich say about fake retweets being counted as real and will Klout eventually become the solution with verified users and replace Twitter altogether (if Twitter doesn\u2019t buy it someday soon)? How many reports of social media ROI are sitting in executive boardrooms right now that are not true representations of actual real world reality? How many marketers departments will have new and different leadership 90 days from now due to questions raised due to this incident? Will people across the globe stop looking at the number of Twitter followers as the Holy Grail of social media efforts?<\/p>\n<p>The answers to these questions aren\u2019t fully clear yet, but I wanted to raise some of the most important ones. <strong>I can confidently say that the goal should always be one of diversified marketing strategies that reach relevant demographics and real, actual target customers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for CEOs to rewrite the job spec of the CMO to the creation of relevant business results instead of hype, buzz and hocus pocus. This needed migration is just an idea in most boardrooms today, it needs to one day become reality. It\u2019s time for businesses to adapt their organizations to perform in this environment which is something that must be customized for each company in solutions provided based on the markets that they serve.<\/p>\n<p>How big is this marketplace? According to Google\u2019s Keyword External tool over 3,361,550 queries on Google occurred on the term Twitter Followers. 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Seeing a concept I\u2019ve seen whispered in the back of the room at Internet conferences being discussed in a broad and general way in Time magazine makes one wonder if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,12,26,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-strategy","category-change-management","category-social-media","category-web-analytics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}