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October 21, 2013 11:33 pm GMT

Tailored Tweets, Coming to a Country Near You

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Twitter offers a large target for marketers hoping to drive home a specific message — and its accuracy is improving

A new tool, offered through Twitter's API, allows marketers to send targeted tweets to specific geographic locations. For example, a brand could send a tweet to followers in the United States and a separate tweet to users in Japan from the same account. The tweets will not show up to followers in the brand's Twitter timeline unless those followers reside in the country targeted

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This capability makes it possible for brands to consolidate their Twitter accounts, eliminating the need for different accounts for various countries or languages. It also lets brand target messages more directly to consumers by sending offers or promotions to followers in a specific region or create customized content for a specific country Read more...

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