Econsultancy
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Econsultancy, founded in 1999, is a UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 company providing training, reports, research, case studies, buyers guides and advice for the digital marketing
Digital marketing
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 sector. The CEO and co-founder of Econsultancy is author, Ashley Friedlein. There is also an active jobs board. Econsultancy has over 100,000 members to date. In 2009, Econsultancy also launched an American
United States
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 office, operating from New York.

Econsultancy won the Association of Online Publishers' award for Specialist Digital Publisher 2009.

Twitter Experiment

In February 2009, Econsultancy experimented with their home page by placing a feed of all Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 tweets mentioning the company. Skittles
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did something similar on their own homepage a few weeks later, causing some blogs to draw comparisons between the two. Econsultancy increased their Twitter followers by 200 within the first hour of the experiment. Subsequently, Twitter is the fourth largest referrer of traffic to their site. However some bloggers note the Twitter buzz fell away soon after launch.
Econsultancy is also one of the first companies to experiment with Twitter's Promoted Tweets' product and has over . Econsultancy is also active on and other social platforms.
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