The Twitter Amplify program provides marketers with a real-time digital
dashboard so they can see the resulting tweet activity about the show or the brand.
Based on this information, marketers can send Promoted Tweets to users who tweeted
about a show. They can alter the copy as well based on other information about the
tweeters. For example, Jim Beam used Amplify in 2013 to promote its new Jim Beam
Red Stag brand of premium bourbon. The intent was to increase brand awareness,
purchase intent, and user engagement. The strength of Twitter, according to Jim
Beam marketers, is that it allows the brand to be a part of a real-time conversation, as
opposed to Facebook, which is better at reaching a mass audience but not at engaging
consumers in real time. The power of social media, including Facebook, is finding
consumer advocates who will speak on behalf of the brand.