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Top Social Media Case Studies of 2012

The Realtime Report

What were the most popular social media case studies in 2012? Facebook fans were able to interact with Lowe’s on Pinterest without ever leaving Facebook’s platform; the results included a 32% increase in Pinterest followers for the brand, and follower gains of 60% for certain featured boards.

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How to Use Hashtags on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn

Oktopost

Silicon Valley product designer Chris Messina invented the now ubiquitous hashtag when he was searching for a way to organize the fast-moving Twitter stream. The Twittersphere realized the power of the hashtag when people started adding #sandiegofire to their tweets about a San Diego fire. How to Use Hashtags on Twitter.

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Interactive Social Media: Add Your Favorite Tune of 2012

The Realtime Report

Have you shared your favorite song of 2012? Social marketing solutions company Hyperactivate.com has created “the world’s first social media music mosaic” — powered by Spotify, the project aims to share everyone’s favorite tunes in 2012 via an interactive, social media collaboration.

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Runaway Holiday Hashtag Campaign: Lidl’s To Donate $260K in Christmas Dinners

The Realtime Report

Global discount supermarket chain Lidl started a hashtag campaign to do some holiday social good – and may have been caught off guard when it quickly went viral. After local newspapers picked up the offer and promoted it, people started retweeting the hashtag. Was this a good move for the brand? A Lidl bit naive.

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Nominate Your Favorite Technology Twitterer(s) for the 2012 #Nifty50 Awards

Webbiquity SMM

The posts were a huge hit on Twitter, with the #Nifty50 hashtag reaching nearly 70,000 people through more than 140,000 tweets and retweets, according to TweetReach. But as the #Nifty50 moves forward, our goal—our passion—is to add a third component to the #Nifty50 brand, an objective for social good.

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Easy Ways for Brands to Maximise their Twitter Potential [Report]

Mindjumpers

Between December 11th, 2011 and February 23rd, 2012, Buddy Media analysed user engagement from more than 320 Twitter handles of the world’s biggest brands. The report revealed some very useful statistics for brands that wish to improve their Twitter potential and to understand how best to engage with their followers.

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gazeMetrix: Monitor Your Visual Brand Mentions Based on Image Recognition

Mindjumpers

Monitoring brand mentions, share of voice, sentiment etc. are the essentials of analysing what is being said about your brand online. But there is a dark side, which, until now, has been immeasurable, to the great frustration of social media analysts: Visual brand mentions. Measure visual brand mentions.

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