It has only been a month since Twitter opened its analytics platform to all. It has been a welcome gesture for the marketers who value data validation in their process of decision making. This new analytics report from Twitter is simultaneous with the news from Pinterest that its new interface has opened its treasure of data as well to the businesses.
Social sharing of your content
The most appropriate validation of your content can be measured through the interaction your content meets when shared on social media. It is also measured by the resonance it creates among your target audience. The number of people viewing your posts can help you know what your target audience prefers. This will help you plan a better business strategy.
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Twitter Analytics
It has been several months since Twitter introduced analytics report options for its users. The recent rollout of a more robust version on the same platform has opened up new features. The interface offered by Twitter is highly user friendly. It provides enough information about your brand so that you can get a clue about how your brand is being approached and liked by people.
The interface will feed you with reports about your performance over the last twenty eight days. The overall performance of your brand is determined on month-by-month basis. You can have a graph showing you the difference between your brand’s performance in the current month and in the previous month.
Another interesting part about the graph is that it does not just offer you impression rates for a period but you can also watch your brand’s performance on days-of-the-week basis. Tools such as Tweriod, Followerwonk, and SocialBro had so long been the source of these data. However, Twitter analytics report now helps you have all the answers you need in order to analyze and interpret the performance of your brand.
What is important here is the depth of insight provided by these. You can complement these data with the data offered by the likes of SocialBro in order to get a deep understanding of the data. Knowing these helps you choose an effective time of the day for publishing your content and sharing reminders.
Tweets
One of the strongest aspects of the analytics report by Twitter is that it offers you information in ‘Tweets’ and ‘Tweets and Replies’. You can download the data in order to view it. When you have already downloaded the data, you can do anything you want with it. You can choose to sort it by Engagement, Impressions, or by individual interactions like Retweets or Favorites.
The Impression data will give you an idea of when you can post. Similarly, you can use any column to get the list of tweets your brand has received. You will know what your audience opines about your brand.
Pinterest Analytics
Pinterest interests most brands. Pinterest analytics report allows you to view what visitors like in your profile. It will also let you know what the visitors to your website have saved from it. You are provided with a new set of data about the audience which helps you know and understand what your audience really wants from your brand.
The new platform for analytics report offered by Pinterest is huge. However, in order to access data you are required to have a business account on Pinterest. The process of conversion is easy as you would be asked to do that when you are signing up. When you have signed up already, you will have to wait for twenty four hours in order to feed in the data. However, when the data is fed in, you can use it in a number of different ways.
Two of the key sections are those of Profile and Audience. Both these sections give you a good insight.
What you learn from Pinterest analytics report
The new analytics platform of Pinterest will let you know the boards and Pins that people love most from your profile. It will help you know what people are actually saving from your website. You will get to know exactly who constitute your Pinterest audience- all particulars about their gender, location, and their interests. The new Pinterest analytics report will also let you know the devices your audience is using when they are pinning your stuffs.
Knowing your audience better will help you share the items accordingly so as to get the best response. The data helps you get a complete picture of what people want which will help you woo your target audience. It will help you come up with a more appropriate pinning strategy. You will also know the brands that are followed by your audience. This helps in content targeting.
There is another additional aspect of Pinterest Analytics. It will help you learn the effect of adding Pin It button on your website that leads to the referral of traffic from Pinterest.
So, get ready to plan your business better as you have your Twitter and Pinterest analytics to help you out in the process.