Learn How to Uncover These 8 Essential Insights Using Twitter Analytics

Twitter rolled out its advanced analytics tool years back and has only taken it to the next level with time.

Because the company has created a mobile app and added plenty of other valuable features, you can easily use Twitter Analytics to redefine your marketing strategies.

Twitter has created a potential platform for you to grow your online business. You may utilize a Twitter automation tool as well to do all your Twitter related work faster and save your time.

All you need to do is visit your Twitter’s native analytics dashboard right here. It provides a wide range of data related to your presence on the social media giant.

There are different kinds of parameters related to your followers, impressions, favorites, engagement, and more. These metrics can provide valuable insights to you so you can propagate the overall reach of your content on Twitter.

In this post, I will make you familiar with the various types of information you can obtain from Twitter Analytics. Read on to learn how to level up your Twitter marketing game.

Insights You Can Uncover Using Twitter Analytics

When you know about the built-in analytics Twitter offers, you can use it as a valuable tool. I have handpicked a few essential insights that you can obtain from the Twitter Analytics dashboard.

1. Get to Know the Overall Impressions of Your Tweets

In the analytics dashboard, you can easily switch between various tabs. Under the “Tweet” section, you’ll see the overall impressions of your tweets.

The histogram will tell you about the extensive reach of your tweets. It will further divide the information into organic and promotional impressions as well. It will appear like this:

You can use this data to analyze the way your audience reacts to your tweets, as well as determine the best time and day to tweet.

The data will tell you about your audience’s interests so you can focus on the kind of content that worked well in the past. Then you can alter your content plan by paying more attention to your popular posts.

You can always filter this data with respect to different time periods. Simply tap on the calendar icon at the top and choose your parameters.

Doing so will give you new insights regarding the overall performance of your tweets.

2. Know What Interests Your Audience

All marketers understand that without getting to know their audiences, they can’t really come up with winning marketing strategies. When it comes to Twitter marketing, you should walk go the extra mile in order to know your audience.

Thankfully, Twitter Analytics provides an excellent breakdown of this info under the “Audiences” tab.

Below you can see a screenshot of the analytics for my Twitter account. Most of my audience is interested in marketing, technology, tech news, and more.

You can see that entrepreneurs and marketers comprise my audience. Therefore, if I want to gain more traction, I should post news related to startups, technology, and other relevant subjects.

The Audiences tab can also help you know how your audience is inclined politically. You can even know the kind of TV genres that your audience likes to watch. While developing your content plan, you can utilize this information to your benefit.

3. Learn More Valuable Insights Regarding Your Audience

The “Audience” tab in the native dashboard of Twitter analytics is undoubtedly the most powerful section. As stated above, you can easily use it to know what interests your audience.

But if you want to take things to the next level, then you can also get in-depth analytics about your audience’s demographics.

This information will help you determine the best time to post your tweets and your target audience’s age, gender, language, income, and more.

For example, if you are a brand manager of a premium lifestyle brand, then you can easily use this information to target your prospective customers while running a paid campaign.

4. Study the Consumer Behavior of Your Audience

Twitter Analytics is not merely helpful for knowing the lifestyle or the demographic breakdown of your audience. You can also get to know about their consumer behavior as well.

Knowing consumer behavior is of the utmost importance to brand representatives and small business owners.

If you want to know what kind of brands your customers like or the products they are interested in, then you can visit the “Consumer Behavior” tab. It will provide statistics like the following:

You can use this information while targeting your audience in order to generate more leads.

5. Track Changes in Your Number of Followers

With time, your number of followers might grow or even shrink. You should always pay attention to this number, as it directly affects the overall reach of your content.

The analytics dashboard provides a way for you to view changes in your follower count within seconds so you can make thoughtful decisions related to your prospective marketing plans.

6. Get to Know About Upcoming Trending Events

If you want to succeed as a social media marketer, then you always need to stay at the top of your game.

Doing so involves pushing the envelope and staying updated with all the ongoing trends. Fortunately, Twitter Analytics can make your job a whole lot easier by helping you design your next marketing campaign around a trending event.

Simply visit the “Events” tab and get to know about upcoming major events.

Then create a campaign or a marketing strategy around these events.

You can filter the events based on your audience’s interest so you can stay a step ahead of your competitors.

For example, if you wish to plan a campaign around Mother’s Day, but can’t really decide if doing so will help you or not, then simply view the details about Mother’s Day.

You will get an in-depth breakdown regarding users who are talking about this holiday. This breakdown will include gender, location, age, and other key demographics that can help you make crucial decisions related to your marketing strategy.

You can even search for a key event by its name or filter it by location or event type.

7. Discover Your Top Content

You can use the analytics tool to gain insightful details about your top content.

In the “Tweets” tab, you can find the engagements, impressions, and the engagement rate of your top tweets for different time periods. Also, you can get other details regarding link clicks, likes, retweets, and more.

By getting to know about your most popular tweets, you can figure out what interests your audience. Try to repeat the key characteristics of your top tweets to develop the kind of content that will resonate with your audience in the future.

8. Analyze the ROI of Your Promoted Content

All marketers want to know if their promoted content is able to reach out to their target audiences. The analytics dashboard provides a quick and hassle-free way for you to measure the reach of your content.

Simply hover on the histogram to gain valuable insights to measure the ROI of your promoted content.

Note that as of now, Twitter can only track this data for the last 91 days. If you want to gain more information regarding your paid content, then you can always visit the Twitter Ads dashboard. It can help you create promoted campaigns, analyze the views of your promoted videos, drive conversions of your app installation, and more.

It can help you create promoted campaigns, analyze the views of your promoted videos, drive app installation conversions, and more.

There are also plenty of Twitter Analytics tools that you can use. With the assistance of these third-party tools, you can gain more details about your presence on Twitter.

Lastly, you can export these insights as well. Just click on the “Export Data” button if you wish to generate an extensive report containing the information you found in the analytics dashboard.

I’m pretty sure that after gaining all this crucial information, you will be able to step up your marketing game on Twitter.

Go ahead and leverage the above information for using Twitter Analytics, and make the most of this powerful social media platform.

Maximize the impressions of your content, and make sure that every photo, video, or update that you post will reach out to its target audience.

Feel free to drop a comment if you have any doubts regarding Twitter Analytics or social media listening.

Originally published Apr 23, 2017; republished on Sep 24, 2021 because it is still highly relevant.

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Social media marketing enthusiast, Pankaj is determined to shape his ideas into perfect products. CoFounder of Socialert - Hashtag tracking tool, he believes in coming up with engaging tools to redefine the face of digital marketing. Know more about him at his blog http://blog.socialert.net

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