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How @KitKat is Using the #HaveABreak Hashtag for Marketing on Twitter

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How @KitKat is Using the #HaveABreak Hashtag for Marketing on Twitter

One of the best ways to increase your reach on twitter is to use the right hashtag, which can link to audience sentiments and trigger higher engagement. Hashtags should be precise, easy to remember and unique.

KitKat is one of the brands that have successfully converted their famous tag line (“Have a break”) into an hashtag (#Haveabreak) on Twitter that people can relate to and often tweet with, which enables the brand to engage with and reach out to their potential customers.

For example, the following user uses the hashtag when having a break from a busy morning and KitKat retweets with a quote which results in multiple favourites and retweets.

In the examples below, KitKat replies to tweets with #Haveabreak and that invokes others to join in the conversation or favourite and retweet those replies.

KitKat often posts very funny images (around the have a break theme) with the hashtag, which again triggers many engagements in the form of favourites, replies, and retweets.


Overall, businesses like KitKat can use their tagline as a hashtag to engage people and slowly help them build buzz around their brand. However, the key is simplicity and entertaining content, so that the audience can relate to it.

How @Burberry managed to trend @Twitter during #LFW

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How @Burberry managed to trend @Twitter during #LFW

London Fashion week (#LFW) attracts almost all top fashion brands from all over the world. However it was Burberry who managed to make most of Twitter power and trended in the UK and EU for almost 3 days. We looked into their Twitter content distribution strategy during London Fashion Week, which can help businesses in future to leverage Twitter to gain maximum exposure, especially when they are participating in an event!

Live Streaming from the Event

Burberry live streaming to their front stage ramp shows was embedded to their tweets so that viewers could watch the live show on Twitter in real time. Tweets were retweeted and favourited by everyone from the general public to fashion magazines, and therefore reached out to millions of people.

Tweeted Celebrity Pictures

Burberry tweeted pictures of celebrities like Bradley Cooper and Harry Styles, and these celebrity pictures got lots of engagement through their fans and helped the brand to continuously trend Bradley Cooper

Backstage Pictures

Tweeted backstage pictures gave a glimpse of how things work behind the scenes.

Used Vine to Demonstrate Products

Vine videos can be embed to tweets and Burberry took huge advantage of this by showcasing their new range in Vine videos. Again, these tweets get lots of attention and helped the brand to keep buzzing on Twitter during the event.

Twitter recap for businesses, brands and digital marketers

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Twitter recap for businesses, brands and digital marketers

Since Twitter launched its IPO, the company has been updating its products and services almost daily to speed up the monetisation. We have summarised all the recent launches for digital marketers inside or outside of companies, so that they can remain on top of this ever-evolving real-time social network.

1 Extended their advertising products outside USA

On 13 November, Twitter announced that small- and medium-sized businesses in the UK, Ireland and Canada will now be able to make use of its self-serve advertising platform.

Twitter’s suites of ad products include Promoted Tweets, Promoted Accounts, and Promoted Trends. 

Earlier, all businesses outside the US had to coordinate with Twitter in order to place their ads, which limited the social network’s reach. With this announcement, it is likely that more businesses will now sign on to place ads on the network, increasing its revenue streams.

2. Align advertising to TV Programs

Twitter announced the availability of TV ad targeting on Twitter. According to Twitter:

“TV ad targeting enables marketers to engage directly with people on Twitter who have been exposed to their ads on TV. Synchronized Twitter and TV ad campaigns make brand messages more engaging, interactive and measurable, while making it easy for marketers to run always-on Twitter campaigns that complement and amplify their TV creative.”

However, TV ad targeting for Promoted Tweets is available in a limited beta to selected partners running national TV commercials in the U.S.

 3. Custom Timeline on TweetDeck and Developer API

Twitter will let you build custom timelines based on topics, hashtags and more from TweetDeck. Twitter has also introduced an API to allow developers to build this functionality into their products.

This is an extension to their list service and will allow users to create powerful streams of information out of Twitter’s open data, effectively allowing anyone to create individual streams of data custom-made to a topic. The topics could be anything that’s comprised in a tweet, such as hashtags, a phrase like ‘going out’ or event-specific keywords like ‘X-Factor’ or ‘Tech Meetup’.

 4. DM option is removed and Block User is reinstated

Just a month after the public backlash following an abundance of spamming, Twitter has just removed its option for users to receive direct messages (DM) from any follower, whether or not that follower is being followed on Twitter. DMs can now only be sent to a user who is following you.

Under the short-lived change on Thursday, a blocked Twitter user could view or tweet at the person who blocked him or her, but that activity would have been rendered invisible to the victim, as if the offending account did not exist. Five hours later, Twitter canceled the change, and reverted the “block” feature to its original setting.

Takeaway for businesses

Clearly Twitter is still evolving, with many products coming to market and some being removed, but the gist is that Twitter, with real-time data, especially when people are watching TV or following live events, can be a formidable channel for marketers to promote their products and services. And with the introduction of their self-service advertising channel, it has become easier to promote things on this network. The marketer should also not forget that Twitter is still one of the most open networks and there are many tools, including TweepForce, out there to help them promote and transact on Twitter. 

Four Examples of Using Twitter for Commerce, PR & Lead Generation

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Four Examples of Using Twitter for Commerce, PR & Lead Generation

We have compiled a list of tweets (or Twitter campaigns) run by businesses or celebrities to leverage Twitter for commerce, public relations and lead generation.

These examples can be very useful to digital marketers or an in-house digital marketing team, to help set up Twitter campaigns for their businesses or customers.

1.Starbucks – give away free stuff on special occasions to build PR

On Veterans Day, 11 November, Starbucks tweeted that they were giving away a tall brewed coffee to veterans, active duty military men and women, and active duty spouses, with a #Thankavet hashtag and a link to their web page dedicated to veterans.

This good gesture was hugely appreciated by the Twitterati and was Retweeted and favourited over 4,000 and 3,000 times respectively. It surely drove high traffic to the attached link too.

2.Pizza Hut – time-bound offers drive attention and feedback

Pizza Hut, with over 600,000 followers, actively runs time-bound exclusive competitions on Twitter. On one such occasion this resulted in over 400 retweets and 300 favorites, in addition to loads of feedback from their customers.

3.Ticketmaster – Celebrities Sell

Katy Parry tweeted her UK tour dates and a link to tickets on Ticketmaster. The tweet has gone viral with around 5,000 retweets and favorites and tickets at Ticketmaster were sold out within minutes!

4.American Express – Make it real time and conversational

American express is experimenting with real Twitter commerce where users can tweet to ask for deals for their favorite brands! The concept is gaining momentum and over 1m people used this tool to request deals for their favorites brands!

Takeaway for businesses

Through these examples, the idea is to demonstrate to businesses or brands that there are various ways to get traction on Twitter, such as give away free stuff, or offer exclusive deals and then allow users to transact via or on Twitter. Not all the above techniques fit every businesses, but the business can do some analysis based on their products and services to see what they can offer for free or exclusively, and then run campaigns as above to get the most out of Twitter!