Friday, 31 March 2017

Nike vs UnderArmour on Twitter

Nike vs Under Armour on Twitter

Nike on the social media platform of Twitter posts content roughly about every 3-6 days depending on the type of content they are posting, which is images and videos regarding either their clothing, shoes, or athletes. However Nike has an ad out for the month of February that promotes the word “Equality”, they are posting content of the word and athletes supporting this cause of equal rights among humans. This is an example of Nike following the 50/50 rule as they post both content from within their company and content outside of there company regarding their communities and industry, as all types of sports are present on this social media platform. The keywords used throughout this platform are #EQUALITY and #justdoit.
·      Followers – 6.79 million
·      Following – 156
·      Tweets 30.1k



                 This post was successful because Nike is promoting itself around LeBron James, a basketball player who is known throughout the world. This post received lots of attention on Nikes twitter page as it had: 59k likes, 34k retweets, and 903 quote tweets which means this is how many people were talking about this video.


Under Armour on Twitter, posts the same content that they have on Facebook, in which they post roughly about every 3-5 days in exception with multiple posts on a particular day. The content posted is of images and videos of there products and sports athletes. From looking at Under Armour’s last twenty-five posts, its evident that they don’t follow the 50/50 rule, as they do not have any content containing anything outside of their company. Keyword that is present on this social media platform is #IWILL.
·      Followers- 814k
·      Following- 1381
·      Tweets- 15.1k


One of Under Armours top posts has been pinned to the top of their page and that is Tom Brady’s ad for his five super bowl victories. This video is one of the company’s top tweets because of the content, in which Tom Brady has defined his legacy with another super bowl victory. This post has 8.5k likes, 4.6k retweets, and 368 quote tweets.

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