you aren't on gab? part 2 - gab vs. twitter | learn as i learn - digital marketing 030
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Your customer’s a-en/on is going to shi3, and when it does, it will happen quickly.
The comparison is inevitable.
A direct Gab vs. Twi-er comparison is highly imperfect but necessary since they are direct compe/tors. Gab and Twi-er’s early days next to each other gives Gab some context.
However, keep in mind 2006 was radically different than 2016. There has never been a /me in history where social media has been so heavily used. It is highly doubJul Gab in 2006 would have grown like Gab did in 2016.
Timeline
•July 2006 launch* — Twi-er is now open to the general public. •Four months a3er launch — Almost 12,000 total users. •Six months a3er launch — Users send an average of 5,000 tweets per day.
•Seven months a3er launch — Gets recognized at the annual tech conference SXSW (South by Southwest) and 20,000 Tweets per day goes up to 60,000 Tweets per day.
Hubspot and Buffer both a-ribute SXSW 2007 as the first explosive growth driver of Twi-er.
*Twi)er launched in March 2006 but was not open to the general public un;l July 2006.
Timeline
Timeline
•August 2016 launch •Four months a3er launch — Gab has over 100,000 users that send an average of 20,000 Gabs per day (posts on Gab) with 200,000 people on wait lists.
If the website traffic growth from part one and the user base growth above show anything, it is that Gab needs to be taken very seriously.
Timeline
A)en;on shi@s on social media can happen fast… Gab could very quickly be something special and many people might not join now because it is small rela/ve to Facebook.
Many people said they would never be on Facebook back when it started in 2006, now in 2017, Facebook has almost 2 billion monthly users.
Also, 62% of US internet users 65 and older now use Facebook.
Think of how a)en;on shi@s when a new TV show or NeLlix series comes out.
One month you could be really into a show about four friends looking for someone in another dimension…
then tomorrow, NeJlix releases House of Cards and that friend is lost forever.
Snapchat was “just a fad” in 2012 and now there are over 150 million people using Snapchat every day.
Instagram (owned by Facebook), decided to copy Snapchat with Instagram Stories in 2016.
Less than three weeks a3er its launch, over 100 million of Instagram’s 500 million monthly users started using Instagram Stories.
Don’t repeat my social media mistake…
Many people, myself included, are guilty of passing judgement on new technology, a new social network or social media in general when they have never used it. It’s easy to dismiss something when other methods are currently working.
For years, social media was a non-‐existent priority to me because I did not see the business value. I never used it because I thought it was a waste of /me.
New technology and social media are difficult to learn but those of us in business have no choice.
We live in a world now where the average global internet user spends 118 minutes per day on social media.
Last May, I came face to face with something we all know is true: digital and social media marke/ng are the present and future of marke/ng.
With more and more /me being spent on our phones and social media, these are the arenas where consumers will allow us to get their a-en/on.
What does this mean for Gab?
Social Media in 2017 dominates our a-en/on. Since social media has so many eyeballs on it, a-en/on shi3s will just keep happening quicker and quicker. Those that get in ahead of the majority of users will have a first-‐in advantage.
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