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The best day of the week to tweet and update Facebook. Five Types of Social Media Influencers. What makes a good influencer? “Influence” is a concept difficult to evaluate since it refers to both subjective and objective values, resulting in a measurement of: commercial and financial success reputation and credibility quality of affiliations and contacts charisma and the impact of personality For each of these values, the notion of influence may vary from person to person. In fact, in the age of social media, the definition is changing as how to identify influencers. Today, thanks to online applications, all social media users now have the opportunity to stand out and in turn become leaders in respect to their interests. As a result, marketers and public relation professionals are forced to reassess their approach to define the notion influence on social networks.

Influencers on social media are either passionate individuals who turn out to be specialists or professionals involved who use Web 2.0 tools as part of their work. There are different types of influencers. Connect: Web ... Social Media Infrastructures | Thank You. Wired Advisor Social Media Portfolio.pdf - File Shared from Box. Social Media's Impending Flood of Customer Unlikes and Unfollows Brian Solis. InShare383 This is part two in a short series to introduce The End of Business as Usual…originally posted on Harvard Business Review (edited) There’s an old saying that carries renewed meaning these days: Give the people what they want. Brands are furiously creating profiles in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter in the hopes of building engaging communities with customers and giving people what the brands think they want.

The main activity in this effort is to spur consumers to “like” and “follow” a brand’s Facebook and Twitter streams. But are these companies developing effective campaigns to build engagement and give the people what they want? From where I sit, I’d say many are not. Not long ago, I attended a daylong social marketing summit at the campus of a leading national brand that also housed a number of popular sub brands. It’s not that this advice isn’t helpful.

When asked why consumers were breaking-up with brands in Facebook and Twitter, the top reasons cited were: 10 Ways to Beat Online Obscurity.