When an irate traveler tweeted about how he had arrived late to The Four Seasons in Palo Alto and been “bumped” to an inferior room, the hotel saw it immediately and responded, promising to make it up to him. Turns out, the customer spends about 60 nights a year in Palo Alto for work, and promised in his next tweet to spend many of those nights at The Four Seasons.

The brand has had several similar stories posted online by delighted customers, and they are exactly the kind of successes that justify the investment in social media for customer service (which, in turn, drives sales).

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These days more and more brands are turning to social media, hoping to spread the word and attract loyal customers.  But on a limited time and budget, it can be hard for small brands to cover the entire social network spectrum and engage with fans on Twitter and Facebook.  With this in mind, BuySellAds.com and Column Five bring you Twitter Vs. Facebook: Where The Brand Loyalty Is, an infographic that pins the two big social networks against one another to help you determine which offers more value for your brand.

The infographic compares Twitter and Facebook based upon a variety of criteria, including age, gender and education distribution, networking power and more.  The infographic reports that 80 percent of Facebook fans use Facebook most to connect with brands, while only 6 percent use Twitter.

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Google Plus has yet to launch pages for brands, but that hasn’t stopped people from making comparisons with the live version on Facebook, and now so will we. JWT New York emerging media strategist Zeny Huang penned one for Mashable, focusing on brand pages, and we beg to differ.

Huang zeroed in on four topics in comparing brand pages on the two social networks: search, customization, analytics, and the fact that Google can learn from Facebook. Again, Google Plus is still in beta, and brand pages don’t exist yet, nor do some of the hypothetical features she mentioned.

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INFOGRAPHIC Why We Follow Brands On Facebook

The average person follows two to five brands on Facebook. And special offers are the leading motivator for that. That comes from an infographic put together by Column Five Media and Get Satisfaction.

We’ve reproduced infographic below; let us know what you think about it in the comments section beneath this post; or click here for analysis by our sibling blog Social Times.

 

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