Social Media Marketing: A Case Study from Twitter

Hashtags Analysis from Hashtags.Org

I wanted to tell you about an interesting Twitter phenomenon that just occurred.
We’ve been thinking and researching social media marketing via Twitter. Twitter and Search … hmmm. How can I condense years of search engine optimization erudition down into a couple sentences??

Ok. Suffice it to say, that I did a little experiment on my personal Twitter account yesterday with Twitter hashtags.

…and this morning, take a look at the flood of followers who signed up to receive my Twitter updates:

Unread Twitter John Gordon is now following you on Twitter! 8:33 AM 8KB
Twitter michelleheigl is now following you on Twitter! 8:47 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Mike Adams is now following you on Twitter! 8:31 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Money Ideas is now following you on Twitter! 8:19 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Modeling22 is now following you on Twitter! 8:16 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Eric Nordstrom is now following you on Twitter! 8:16 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Michael Wheaton is now following you on Twitter! 8:14 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Ben Küllau is now following you on Twitter! 8:07 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter JulianRT is now following you on Twitter! 8:05 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter JulianRG is now following you on Twitter! 8:04 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Sue Soucy is now following you on Twitter! 8:03 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Jason J Culbertson is now following you on Twitter! 8:00 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Bryan Patterson is now following you on Twitter! 7:59 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter TaVona Boggs is now following you on Twitter! 7:58 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Fontaine...Paul is now following you on Twitter! 7:58 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Greg L. Richardson is now following you on Twitter! 7:58 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Denise Cornwell is now following you on Twitter! 7:57 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Tareq Gohery is now following you on Twitter!
Twitter Ivan Maroya is now following you on Twitter! 7:56 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter chazonline55 is now following you on Twitter! 7:55 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Ben Mapp is now following you on Twitter! 7:55 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Mike is now following you on Twitter! 7:54 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Claudio Sennhauser is now following you on Twitter! 7:54 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Tammi J Koza is now following you on Twitter! 7:53 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Ahmad Arif is now following you on Twitter! 7:52 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Reverle Harris is now following you on Twitter! 7:51 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Allen Gregory is now following you on Twitter! 7:50 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter TwittLord is now following you on Twitter! 7:50 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Adam Zilberbaum is now following you on Twitter! 7:49 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter A Dollar Deal is now following you on Twitter! 7:49 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter ElizabethHannan is now following you on Twitter! 7:48 AM 8KB
Unread Twitter Master 2.0 is now following you on Twitter! 7:48 AM 8KB
Read Twitter David Allen is now following you on Twitter! 7:16 AM 8KB
Read Twitter Alexis Jameson is now following you on Twitter! 3:37 AM 8KB
Read Twitter Ade Lack is now following you on Twitter! 2:50 AM 8KB
Read Twitter beanandbodySF is now following you on Twitter!
Twitter Marisa is now following you on Twitter! Tue, 5/19/09 8KB
Unread Twitter TM Marketing is now following you on Twitter!
Twitter daiyaan is now following you on Twitter! Mon, 5/18/09 8KB
Unread Twitter Thomas Moreton is now following you on Twitter! Mon, 5/18/09 8KB
Unread Twitter Charles H Denney is now following you on Twitter! Mon, 5/18/09
Unread Twitter Walter Rose is now following you on Twitter! Mon, 5/18/09 8KB
Unread Twitter Danger Brown is now following you on Twitter! Mon, 5/18/09 8KB
Unread Twitter Robbie Gallagher is now following you on Twitter! Mon, 5/18/09 8
Unread Twitter Hamada Hafez is now following you on Twitter! Mon, 5/18/09 8KB
Unread Twitter loumartin is now following you on Twitter!

All these were in my inbox this AM. Keep in mind, I just did the experiment late last night (about 11PM)

Now, I don’t know exactly what this means, but it seems significant on the face of it. Any online experiment that motivates such movement in such a short time-frame deserves attention.