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It comes down to understanding how the channel actually operates—not how you’d like it to operate. Other socialnetworks. It doesn’t make sense to go into all socialnetworks’ analytics data, but realize you’ll learn a lot about your audience when you really pay attention to the analytics native to each platform.
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.* Everyone mistakenly thinks of Twitter as a distribution channel for witty snark and links to off-site content. For me, Twitter is still the #1 socialnetwork because it is (or can be) *truly social*. Twitter is evolving to become a more mainstream channel. Thanks to Buddy Scalera. #6 6 – Tweeps Keep Up.
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Those are the things that people asked in 2012 and 2013, but those issues haven’t gone away because people still see social media as this disconnected piece of marketing that you have to go figure out and play in. The one thing that I said in 2012 and I’ll say it today, is that you need a strategy for social media.
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