This document discusses the use and manipulation of numbers in marketing and social media. It provides statistics on the lifespan of tweets (most replies within 10 minutes but tweets can still be seen years later), the value of Twitter followers (it costs $18 per 1,000 followers but fake followers can be sold for $800/day), and engagement on Facebook posts (60% within the first hour but slowing engagement after). The document cautions that numbers can be manipulated and emphasizes defining real ROI versus pretend metrics.
10. The lifespan of a Tweet
On average - about 15 minutes
90% of replies and ReTweets happen in the first 10
minutes
But wait...
11. How long does a Tweet
live?
Thats a lot of 15 minute intervals
823 Days ago
2 years, 3 months ago
40,000 Tweets ago
12. Twitter by the numbers
517 million users worldwide
360 million accounts whose users if you can call
them that either dont log in every month, or dont
exist in the first place.
In 2012, and estimated 38% of Twitter accounts were
inactive
The average Twitter user has 126 followers
Over 40% of Twitter users do not tweet anything
71% of the millions of tweets each day attract no
reaction
25% of Twitter users have no followers
13. It costs about $18 per 1,000 followers.
Those selling the fake accounts can earn as
Whats a$800/day.
much as Twitter follower really worth?
They sell retweets, too. They charge between
$2.50 and $55 per 1,000 retweets.
Those who buy fake Twitter followers had on
average 48,885 followers.
An estimated 24% of Twitter users have
multiple accounts
14. What about Facebook posts?
in the first 10 minutes, posts got one-third of their total
reach
in minutes 11-20 after publication, posts reached an
estimated additional 13.2% of their total audience
in minutes 21-30, posts reached just another 4.7% of
their total audience
after 90 minutes, the average post was reaching less
than 2% of its total audience
Brands posting to Facebook see 60% of total
engagement within the first hour after publication
16. Facebook by the numbers
1 billion accounts
550 million active users
Facebook acknowledged that a total of 8.7% or 83
million accounts on the network are bogus.
Of the 8.7%,
4.8% are duplicate accounts
2.4% are user-misclassified accounts
1.5% are undesirable accounts, a.k.a. spam.
30-40 million accounts for the deceased
bans at least 20,000 accounts daily and estimates
about 600,000 accounts per day are compromised.
17. On average companies respond to only
30% of social media fans feedback
(Source: Factbrowser)