How and why certain groups of people tend to use one social media platform over another and how businesses react to this. This is a brief study of how the 3 Kuwaiti telecoms use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to varying degrees to interact with their customers. Companies studied are Zain, Viva Telecom & Ooredoo Kuwait. These companies were not involved in this study and only publicly available information was used.
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Social User Channel Preferences
How different user groups cluster on social media sites
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The items and comments here are results of observations while working in Kuwait during November 2014
Anecdotes and resulting theories are subject to challenge
Empirical analysis is needed to support or debunk these observations
Background
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Do groups of people, defined by language or nationality tend to gather on certain social media sites?
Can analytics study language use on sites map to location information in users profile?
Do companies know this and present themselves and their products differently?
How does their approach to customer service differ? SLAs, KPIs
Questions
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Kuwait
Population is <40% Kuwaiti, rest expats
Facebook, English visibly used more often
Twitter, Arabic almost exclusively
Instagram, much Arabic & growing quickly
Expats more likely to use Facebook
Kuwaitis more likely to use Twitter
Brands appear to pitch higher value products on Twitter
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Why & What
Analyzed Twitter, Facebook & Instagram for interactions with companies
If the anecdotes from the previous slide are true then,
Brands need to know this breakdown
Brands can better position their goods on the proper platform
Brands can optimize their social media approach for the target audience
Empirical data is needed to confirm or dismiss
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Companies & Sites
Ooredoo Kuwait
@OoredooKuwait
Fb/OoredooinKuwait
Instagram/OoredooKuwait
Zain Kuwait
@ZainKuwait
Fb/ZainKuwait
Instagram/ZainKuwait
Viva Telecom Kuwait
@VivaTelecom
Fb/VivaQ8
Instagram/VivaTelecom
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Zain
Ooredoo
Viva
FB likes
84K
248K
315K
FB average comments
16
3
62
FB engagement
no
little to none
no
Twitter followers
151K
140K
179K
Tweets
11K
37,4K
24,3K
Twitter engagement
yes
yes
yes
Instagram followers
89K
54K
106K
Instagram posts
547
1,4K
1,7K
Instagram engagement
no
some
yes
Social Stats
November 2014
Engagement = responds to others on site
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