Zillow made social media history Tuesday, becoming the first company to solicit questions on Twitter and Facebook during its earnings call.
The tweets poured in, right? Not exactly.
As of 5:15 p.m., only seven earnings-related questions had been tweeted using the #ZEarnings hashtag. By the end of the call, approximately nine Twitter users submitted earnings-related questions.
Zillow, an online marketplace for real-estate information, announced plans to use social media on the call two weeks ago.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo retweeted the newsto his 1.06 million followers April 24. Ahead of the earnings release, @TwitterAds tweeted about Zillow's
"cool use of Twitter for biz/finance."
During the Q&A on the conference call, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff answered a number of questions from Twitter. Here are a couple:
--@CG_Internet: In mortgage, with 4.5M loan requests and $4.9M in revenue, can you comment on lender quote density and CPCpricing? #ZEarnings
--@bbolan1: #Zearnings The underwater mortgage quotes, are they priced higher or lower than "regular" mortgage quotes ?@zillow