Sunday, November 6, 2016

#Blog Post 2 Mercedes Benz Vs Tesla on Twitter by Yiran Zhao

Kind of Content Tweeted
Both Mercedes Benz and tesla have established themselves well in twitter though Mercedes is far much ahead of Tesla in terms of followers and tweets (Fisk, 2014). Both brands seem to post almost the same type of content; that is, images of vehicles and great captions describing them. Moreover, there are tweets on customer feedback so as to serve their customers better.
Frequency of Tweets
The frequency of posts for the two brands differ in a big proportion. Mercedes Benz has a total of 29,200 tweets while Tesla has just 6189 tweets. Moreover, Mercedes Benz’s latest tweet was posted about 24 minutes ago while that of Tesla is around 15 hours old. This much difference shows a high frequency of tweeting for Mercedes Benz and vice versa. More so, they both obey the 50/50 rule though Mercedes is proving to be more successful on the same.



Most Successful Recent Tweets

Mercedes Benz’s most successful tweet was on October 12, 2016. It had 187 retweets and 448 favorites. This is a great progress considering the fact that the post is just a day old. The design looks so good and the photo deserves the favorites.
On the other hand, Tesla’s most successful recent tweet was posted on October 7, 2016. It is a photo of vehicles on a trip after completing a 3-billion-mile electric drive. It has 3,200 retweets and 7,400 favorites. This tweet gains success due to the fact that this vehicle saves a lot of fuel hence conserves the environment through avoiding air pollution.

 The Mercedes Benz has taken dominion over Tesla in Twitter through having a total of about 1.6 million followers while Tesla follows with a total of about 1.1 million followers. This shows that Mercedes Benz has a larger market share in Twitter.

References
Fisk, P. (2014). Game changers: Creating innovative strategies for business and brands. John Wiley & Sons.

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