1 Good Reason – Social Marketing

Demographic Comparison Facebook and Twitter thanks to Google’s Ad Planner.

Many of the figures posted below are from Google Ad Planner, a free service to anyone who has an AdWords account.  (I know that Google isn’t always right but using a single platform gives you a basis for comparison.)

Twitter vs. Facebook Comparison:

I read these numbers and see the following insights, (I’d love your take in the comments)

·         Facebook has 6X the people of Twitter, both visitors and users

·         Facebook reaches 1 out of 2 people who use the internet in any given day.

·         Twitter is rapidly becoming a business tool as evidenced by the male dominance.   This supports my theory that Twitter will become primarily a tool for professional communicators.

·         Twitter is trending strongly younger than Facebook (+5% in 25-34 age group).  Possibly because of the  “your mom’s on Facebook” phenomena.  But also because Twitter is strongest with people who have a mobile device (laptop or phone) with an internet connection. (See Steve Rubel’s post on this)

·         Twitter has more people with a higher education, and trends slightly higher in income but not decidedly so.  (I don’t like Google’s numbers on HHI, they don’t seem to work.)

All in all, if you’re trying to sell a baby boomer product Facebook is much better than Twitter, but Wal-Mart’s better than both of them (put together.)

What do you see here?

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