Practical Ecommerce Merchant

Jan. 15, 2025

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How to Promote Products on X

Online merchants serving civically engaged shoppers will find excellent promotional opportunities on the growing X platform.

Merchants in 2025 sell from websites and mobile apps and through a slew of social media platforms, including TikTok, Facebook, and X.

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Of this group, X is unique for at least four reasons.

Few competitors. Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, prompting many prominent retail and consumer brands to abandon the platform, creating a promotional vacuum.

Ecommerce brands active on X face relatively less organic and paid competition considering the platform’s size — more than 600 million monthly users in January 2025, according to Exploding Topics, a trend-spotting tool.

SMB bias. Perhaps in response to large brands leaving, Elon Musk announced in 2023 that the X discovery algorithm would favor small-to-midsize businesses, according to TechCrunch.

Thus ecommerce SMBs on X may have a relatively greater share of voice than those on other social networks.

News-focused. X is the civic and news platform. In November 2024, the Pew Research Center reported that “about one in five Americans — including a much higher share of adults under 30 (37%) — say they regularly get news from influencers on social media.”

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