FLASHBACK: Fashion Night Out Jamaica 2010 #FNOja on Twitter. The Stats and Maps of Success

In 2010 on a Friday, here in Jamaica as well as in New York, there was Fashion Night Out (FNO). A One Night Only crazy discounts event. The #FNOja hashtag was created by Rachel Cunning @RachiebabieJa and endorsed by The Jamaica Observer – the originators of FNO Jamaica. And then it simply blew up on Twitter. We’re sharing this Social Media Success story of 2010 as we get ready today for FNO 2012.

Let’s start with the hashtag #FNOja. What is a hashtag? It’s simply a keyword, a short bunch of letters that describes the brand, product, site that it’s attached to, that’s easy to recognise, pass along and in the case of our web app, easy to track. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your Tweet. Anyone can create a hashtag by simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. #caribtechnews #fnoja.

While The Jamaica Observer and the many businesses that participated have declared it an amazing success, we have declared Twitter, a resounding success in spreading the reach of Fashion Night Out Jamaica online and offline. On the workshop and conference circuit over the last two years spreading ideas, sharing strategies and case studies about how Social Media can help businesses to humanize their brands, build brand affinity and drive sales, I’m asked one question consistently.

That questions is – What’s the ROI? The Return on Investment? Companies want to know the impact of their time and money spent on Social Media. We can now help companies to do just that with a new web app I co-developed (Disclosure) with one of the Caribbean’s top Software Architects @Khary Sharpe – it’s called SocialRecord.

The Web App and What We Tracked

Using Social Record we tracked the hashtag #FNOja for nine days to gauge its reach, viewership and its impact on the Fashion Night Out Jamaica brand. We tracked three things:

1. Tweet – a single message sent (including retweets) ( a retweet is when someone passes along a tweet using the prefix RT)
2. People – unique accounts that saw the tweet (account may not be equal to single person e.g. siliconcaribe and ingridriley)
3. Viewership – how many times the tweets were viewed. (some persons would have seen them multiple times due to retweets)

The Results

Stats:
tweets – 1,680 using the #FNOja
retweets – 310
tweeters – 407
people – 98,169
viewership/impressions – 1,335,480

TOP 20 tweeters and how many times they used the #fnoja hashtag

@jamaicaobserver 105
@AskJamaica 81
@dirawtidyute 52
@utenjm 46
@marciaforbes 44
@BASEKINGSTON 37
@chineyphat 37
@RachieBabieja 32
@yuhrate 27
@sweetpersona 24
@tinalingling 23
@corvedacosta 22
@Pahma_G 19
@lenkees 18
@yannizle 14
@gocharms 14
@shancornwall 14
@philburne 14
@zjelektra 13
@freshaDON 13

Top 20 retweeters
@jamaicaobserver 60
@dirawtidyute 29
@chineyphat 28
@AskJamaica 27
@RachieBabieja 21
@utenjm 16
@sweetpersona 13
@Pahma_G 12
@zjelektra 11
@JAG1Prod 10
@gocharms 10
@marciaforbes 10
@chrysalisceo 9
@lenkees 8
@artsybee876 8
@freshaDON 8
@shancornwall 7
@yuhrate 7
@susiesbakery 7
@Bree_Lawless 7

Top 20 tweeters with the most followers
@tamichynn 13017
@GourmetGirlMag 10516
@DiGenius1 9702
@SamFineBeauty 8923
@IAMTHECECILE 7783
@Alainesinga 5982
@jamaicaobserver 5880
@chinomcgregor 5346
@zjelektra 4535
@ChrysalisCEO 3650
@etanastrongone 3258
@Denyque 2988
@iamchrismartin 2881
@TheRealSupaHype 2624
@Bambinomusik 2479
@AITGAPPAREL 2433
@jamdowndigital 2312
@LONZtheMUA 2120
@hashtager 2066
@bramma1 1766

Social Record Tweet Maps.

We used the App and Google Maps to create a Map of the #fnoja tweets that were geotagged. You can see tweets made globally, regionally, nationally and on a parish and town levels. It has the ability to go to neighbourhood and street level as well.

#FNOja GeoTagged Tweets around the World

#FNOja GeoTagged Tweets Jamaica

#FNOja GeoTagged Tweets Parish, Neighbourhood

Not all about Numbers and Maps

All this shows, that if people feel connected to a brand, an authentic message, cause, event, restaurant, bar or have a great experience with them, they will share it – in this case, they will tweet, retweet, mention it to their friends, followers. It’s word of mouth powered by social media platform of Twitter.

I must add too, that while everyone gets excited about numbers, it’s not all about the numbers, it’s about relationships. The word Social in the term Social Media gives you a clue into what it’s all about.. It’s about people connecting and sharing themselves, their information and experiences. Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare are platforms that enable people to connect. For business, it enables brands to listen in, find out how you are perceived by your customers, your potential market, what messages will connect, what ideas will spread and move people to action.

Shameless plug continued: You can follow Social Record on Twitter @socialrecord

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