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Viral Twitter coverage by Al Jazeera English - #HowToSellAMassacre

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Objectives

- Use Twitter to break the story of our undercover investigation into the US and Australian gun lobby

 

- Go viral through effective story telling using platform friendly formats

 

- Become number one trending hashtag in Australia 

 

- Increasing brand recognition and awareness

 

👉 Learn more on how we achieved these objectives: https://medium.com/@ajenglishtwitter/how-to-sell-a-massacre-a8a27311a6aa

Strategy and Execution

- Effectively using a Twitter Thread for an exclusive presentation of the information and provide the key elements in a social-friendly and easy-to-understand manner

 

-  Utilising various engaging social assets, including social cards, clips and images, to make the information accessible and easy to follow

 

- Creating a branded hashtag #HowToSellAMassacre and effectively using it to boost exposure and engagements around the content

 

- Publishing during a peak time for our target audience 

 

- Improve the visibility of the content on Twitter to be used by Twitter Moments Australia on their official account

 

👉 Learn more on how we implemented this strategy: https://medium.com/@ajenglishtwitter/how-to-sell-a-massacre-a8a27311a6aa

Results

- Soon after publishing the Twitter Thread, #HowToSellAMassacre became the top trend in Australia and the fourth worldwide.

 

- ‘Al Jazeera’ was among the top trending keywords in Australia shortly after the Twitter thread was published.

 

- Twitter Moments Australia curated a landing page using our Twitter thread.

 

- We received over 22,000 total engagements on the Twitter thread alone.

 

- We received over 1 million views on the videos published within the Twitter thread.

 

👉 Learn more on how we achieved these results: https://medium.com/@ajenglishtwitter/how-to-sell-a-massacre-a8a27311a6aa

Media

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Al Jazeera Digital, Al Jazeera Media Network

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