Cultivating Your Twitter Following (Uris 141)
Fifty followers just won't cut it. How can you attract a large following on Twitter, and how does Twitter fit into your overall social media strategy?
Angel Aviles-Clinton, Co-Founder, BeScene Marketing
Joselin Mane, Co-Founder, BeScene Marketing
22. Twitter Strategy What is your current (social media) Marketing Strategy? What resources (human or otherwise) do you have available Think Long term Look at other projects in your space
24. Here are some Twitter Tools Twitter Search - Filter TweetDeck - filter information Bit.ly - measure influence OneForty.com - Twitter app store Mashable.com
25. Here are some nonTwitter Tools Google Alerts Facebook Fan Pages/Groups TweetUps
26. Twitter Quick Growth Process Good Content Partner w/Other brands with large following Filter conent Be consistent Create stories around your stories
27. Most talked about Movie ‘09 Twilight : New Moon Harry Potter Star Trek Paranormal Activity G.I. Joe Inglorious Bastards Hangover District 9 Transformers *Twitter 2009
32. At Home By Myself... With You Leveraging the power of Twitter and Facebook, a Canadian production company raised $42,000 for their film. Pocket Change Films (PCF) produced their first feature film by collecting other people’s pocket change; pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters.
33. At Home By Myself... With You In October 2009 "At Home..." had its world premiere at The Vancouver International Film Festival
35. Paranormal Activity Paramount created an account @TweetYourScream -- where fans could find screening reactions, critics' reviews, additional opening updates and more. Follow-up marketing tactics include: DVD and SEQUEL release dates & links.
36. Avatar While smaller films have used social media to spread the word guerrilla-style, no other major blockbuster has employed a full-on social web marketing assault quite like Avatar. The results in its case were a $232 million opening weekend, a total of one billion dollars in revenue by year’s end, and the rank of #2 highest grossing film of all time. What kind of Twitter action did they have going on?
38. The World Responds... The Famous Actor Simon Pegg… Just left the party. The movie is a game changer. Still buzzing. Tweet over. First Showing’s Alex Billington… James Cameron is a freakin’ genius! I can’t say much but wow, I loved it. Avatar was phenomenal, pretty much blew me away. Edward Douglas’ Coming Soon… I’ll take my chances with Fox legal…. Avatar was amazing, I loved it! Film School Rejects… RT @rejects: I’m not supposed to talk about Avatar… That said, it was a spectacular experience. Like nothing I’ve seen before. Everyman @petershall: “The AVATAR buzz is an understatement. That movie was unbelievable.” @chasewhale: “Just finished AVATAR. Special effects were top notch. The movie ran a little long for my likings but I liked it!” @MikePereira21: Was blown away by Avatar! For 150 minutes, I was a kid again. Thank you James Cameron! BTW, the groundbreaking 3D was mindblowing.” @markwalters74: “Just saw AVATAR. Not allowed to talk about it yet. Not allowed to say how it’s an amazing visual feast, or that Jimmy C’s still got the gift.” @dmann11: “Holy effing crap!!! Avatar was FREAKING AWESOME KICK ASS SWEET!!!!!” @TheGate: “For the record ‘Avatar’ was worth the $400 million, and no it is not even remotely “vomit inducing”.
39. Twitter Box Office Update The ratio is the number of tweets per $1 million of Friday Box Office gross. A film with 1,000 tweets and a $10 million Friday would therefore have a ratio of 100. In general, films that appeal to very young or older audiences have lower ratios since those audiences are not big users of Twitter. By comparison, films that appeal to younger audiences (18-35) have much higher ratios since those audiences are much more active users of Twitter.
40. Twitter Reviews Sink Box Office Weekends Time Magazine thinks Twitter might be to blame claiming that “Brüno could be the first movie defeated by the Twitter effect.” You may have seen a few tweets from moviegoers sharing their colorful movie watching experiences. Those very tweets may have resulted in a drastic decline in sales, causing the movie to fall as much as $20 million short of some expectations. According to box office results, Brüno, pulled in $30.4 million, saw almost a 40% drop in ticket sales from Friday to Saturday, and lost even more steam going into Sunday.
41. Bruno All is not lost for Brüno. In the first week of domestic DVD release it makes $6,536,957
