{"id":5597,"date":"2026-03-21T14:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:27:01","slug":"learn-profit-twitter-business-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/learn-profit-twitter-business-analytics","title":{"rendered":"How to Learn and Profit from Twitter Business Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><img class=\"alignleft size-full remove-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/How-to-Learn-and-Profit-from-Twitter-Business-Analytics.jpg\" alt=\"How-to-Learn-and-Profit-from-Twitter-Business-Analytics\" width=\"629\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/How-to-Learn-and-Profit-from-Twitter-Business-Analytics.jpg 629w, https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/How-to-Learn-and-Profit-from-Twitter-Business-Analytics-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\"><\/p>\n<p>Twitter is a potent platform with a number of forms of engagement to measure as you strive to improve your message and brand presence.&nbsp; Learning what these forms of engagement are, and how to measure them through Twitter&rsquo;s analytics, is important for growth.&nbsp; Let&rsquo;s get to it.<\/p>\n<h3>Types of Engagement<\/h3>\n<p>There are four major <a href=\"http:\/\/businessjournal.gallup.com\/content\/172637\/why-customer-engagement-matters.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">forms of engagement a user can use<\/a>, with a fifth that&rsquo;s harder to measure.&nbsp; They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Replies.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; These are tweets a user makes that are directly responding to you or talking to you.&nbsp; They use the @mention feature to gain your attention and deliver a message directly.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Mentions.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong> These are instances where a user makes a tweet about your brand using the @mention feature, but they don&rsquo;t address the message to you directly.&nbsp; Instead, they&rsquo;re mentioning you indirectly while flagging your account so you see.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Indirect mentions.&nbsp;<\/em> <\/strong>These are the hardest to measure and require the use of social listening tools.&nbsp; These are the times when a user mentions your brand but does not @mention your username, so you aren&rsquo;t notified.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Retweets.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong> These are cases where a user either manually copies and pastes your tweet into their feed prefaced with RT, or when they click the dedicated retweet button.&nbsp; It broadcasts your message to their followers.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Favorites.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; A user can favorite a tweet you make, which doesn&rsquo;t retweet it or reply to it, but nonetheless shows some appreciation for your content.&nbsp; They are very much akin to a Facebook &ldquo;like.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, hashtags can be important when you create tags for specific discussions or ad campaigns.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialbakers.com\/blog\/2126-the-ultimate-guide-to-hashtags\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">Use of a branded hashtag<\/a> is both a way to gain your attention and a sign of further engagement.<\/p>\n<h3>Measuring Followers<\/h3>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5601\" src=\"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Measuring-Followers.jpg\" alt=\"Measuring-Followers\" width=\"629\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Measuring-Followers.jpg 629w, https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Measuring-Followers-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\"><\/p>\n<p>Knowing where you stand with your followers, your growth trends, and a comparison with your competition is good to know.&nbsp; How are you growing, how are your competitors growing and how do you stand up?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>First, measure your potential reach through your followers.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong> Every person who follows you has people who follow them.&nbsp; Your one-step reach is the sum total of everyone who follows your followers.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s not a completely accurate number; there may be some overlap, and it ignores followers of followers of followers and beyond, but it&rsquo;s close enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Next, measure the followers your competitors have.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; Compare your totals, but remember that the grand total isn&rsquo;t always as important as your growth.&nbsp; Measure the number of followers you gain each day and compare it to the same number for your competition.&nbsp; It can help you predict when you might catch up or surpass your competition.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/userguide.audiense.com\/tweet-analytics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"broken_link\">measure the number of users who mention your brand, retweet your tweets<\/a> or favorite your messages while not actually being followers.&nbsp; These users represent an opportunity to gain pre-engaged followers.<\/p>\n<p>While you&rsquo;re measuring your followers, you can segment them by location.&nbsp; Do you have an outstanding following in a given area?&nbsp; If you&rsquo;re a local business, should you focus more on a wider area or drill down to local users?<\/p>\n<p>Another segmentation option is by engagement type.&nbsp; You can create archetypes of users who frequently retweet your content, or who mention you most often, to see what types of users are most engaged.<\/p>\n<h3>Share of Voice<\/h3>\n<p>Measuring your share of voice will give you an indication of how vocal and how present you are in your arena.&nbsp; You need to pick important keywords and run searches for those keywords, identifying brand mentions for each.&nbsp; How often are you mentioned, compared to your competition?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Segment your voice share by location.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong> This helps you identify geographical locations where you have the lead, and locations you may need to target if your competition is too strong.&nbsp; Location targeting can help you undercut the competition.<\/p>\n<p>You can also measure the overall adoption of your branded hashtags &ndash; tags you create, rather than tags you participate in regularly &ndash; compared to your competition&rsquo;s branded tags.&nbsp; Segment by individual tag so you can identify which tags are the most successful on both sides, which can inspire you for future tags.<\/p>\n<h3>Measuring Media Type<\/h3>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5603\" src=\"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Measuring-Media-Type.jpg\" alt=\"Measuring-Media-Type\" width=\"629\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Measuring-Media-Type.jpg 629w, https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Measuring-Media-Type-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\"><\/p>\n<p>Different sorts of tweet content bring in different types and levels of engagement.&nbsp; In general, pictures are going to bring in the most engagement, while pure text posts will be the most common.&nbsp; Anything visual has more engagement than normal tweets.&nbsp; Measure exactly how much for each type of media you use.<\/p>\n<p>You can further segment your media by source and type.&nbsp; When you post a video, is it a Vine, a YouTube video, a Vimeo or DailyMotion video or some other source?&nbsp; Which has the most engagement?&nbsp; You can do the same with images, though image host matters less than video host once you&rsquo;re outside of the social network hosts.<\/p>\n<h3>Customer Service<\/h3>\n<p>One area where Twitter really shines is the customer service capability.&nbsp; Twitter is a fast, responsive and direct means of communication that bypasses slow email and tedious phone hold times.&nbsp;<strong><em> If you&rsquo;re not using Twitter for customer service already, you should start.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong> If you are, measure how it&rsquo;s working.<\/p>\n<p>First, measure customer service each step of the way.&nbsp; Find out how many brand mentions you have on your customer service account &ndash; if it&rsquo;s separate from your main account &ndash; or how many mentions were asking for support.&nbsp; Measure how many of those people were contacted and how many of their issues were solved.&nbsp; Identify if there&rsquo;s a flaw in your process, such as disregarding a certain type of communication.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to response rate, you should also measure response time.&nbsp; How long does it take between a user tweeting you with an issue and their issue being resolved?&nbsp; Where are the delays; waiting on a response from you, or from the user?&nbsp; How can you improve the process?<\/p>\n<p>Pay attention to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialmediaexaminer.com\/exceptional-customer-service-on-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">types of customer service you&rsquo;re encountering<\/a>.&nbsp; Are there any persistent issues you need to take care of in your product or service?&nbsp; What steps do you need to take to push a widespread solution, rather than dealing with users on an individual basis on Twitter?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is a potent platform with a number of forms of engagement to measure as you strive to improve your message and brand presence.&nbsp; 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