What If You "Catch Fire" On Twitter?
After much resistance, I've finally joined the Twitter party (no, that's not my real eye!), so I'll finally get to see how many of my wackier spontaneous thoughts I can avoid posting
Anyway, I've just been reading a great case study written by Ron Ploof, which shows the "double-edged sword" power of Twitter.
Some legal action taken by the Ford Motor Company against a website created a storm of controversy on Twitter and threatened to break out into a larger media fire. The case study is really about how Scott Monty, who heads up social media at Ford, managed to put out the fire in under 24 hours, in part using some nifty Tweeting.
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I thought the case study was pretty interesting, and it raised issues that every Warrior needs to consider, such as...
- The power of leverage and "retweets" (Scott asked his followers to retweet his responses, so that those who were fanning the flames would get to see what was going on from Ford's side)
- How to handle potentially bad publicity. For instance, what happens when a customer bad-mouths you on Twitter? What will you do?
- The viral nature of Twitter, and the speed at which thoughts, opinions and messages (both positive AND negative) can be spread.
Fot those reasons, I thought I'd share it with you good folks at the Warrior Forum.
And I'd like to hear your thoughts:
What did you think of the case study?
What did you get out of it that will help you in your business?
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