Week 3 Social Listening
The brand I chose is Petco. It is a brand I'm familiar with, and I figured people would have things to say about the company given how pet care can sometimes be hotly debated, especially in online spaces. When looking at three of the biggest social media platforms, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, most of what was being said was just general posts talking about Petco as just a prolific presence in online pet and animal communities. For example, most of the posts on Instagram that included the "petco" hashtag in their descriptions mainly just featured an image of a pet, or pets, on their own, which is to be expected, given Instagram's priority of being a photo sharing app. Twitter didn't have much, as the "pecto" search term mainly brought up posts referring to Petco Park in San Diego, California, which was buzzing with baseball and sports news rather than personal updates about people's pets. Facebook, however, seemed to be the most abundant wit...