<WEEK 3>

Having a good day everyone? This week’s assignment seems interesting because I get to know whom you guys have followed and why. For me, I am interested in café company since I’ve been promoting my mother’s café in Korea. I followed some famous café such as Starbucks and Coffee Bean. As you know, none of the people would not know what a Starbucks is. I could even say Starbucks is the most famous café franchise in the world. Also, I was surprised when I saw “The Coffee Bean” when I came to the United States, since Korea has this café too. After I tried some drinks there and compared with Korea, I think most of the drinks are the same, but American coffee tastes a bit stronger than Korea. I’ve decided to follow both Starbucks and the Coffee bean twitter and compared America promotions with Koreans. I was able to see some pictures of coffee and deserts on twitter, and I also learned how to promote something online. To be honest, when I promoted my mother’s café online, I wrote down some sentences of explanations and pictures, but both Starbucks and Coffee Bean seemed to have a sentence of an explanation with a picture. I think the latter method is more neatly organized compared to mind, so I need to keep this factors in my mind. Once again, I remembered reading something about organizations in the book, so I need to be aware with it.

           Moreover, I was just interested how American McDonald’s would promote their food, so I followed it and saw some pictures. It was interesting and got surprised how McDonalds reacts to the customers. It responded to most of the customer’s questions or statements, which made me to recall about ‘participation.’ When I also saw the Burger king twitter, this was the same with McDonalds. Finally, I decided to follow a famous person rather than a company and saw Justin Timberlake’s twitter. He wrote down lots of posts with pictures and most people like him. Since his posts were all nicely written and generous, I guess the numbers of followers are increasing.

           To summarize, I saw Starbucks, The Coffee Bean, McDonalds, Burger King, and Justin Timberlake. These five twitters have some similarities which are being nice, organize well, and participating well enough. When I think about the strength of these promoting method, perhaps more people would like to follow them and get to know more about them. Fortunately, I was not able to think about some weakness based on those five twitters I’ve looked for but learned some lessons that I will apply on to my promoting blogs.