Dell (DELL) has been beat up in the last few years as it has struggled to gain market share, compete at retail with its consumer PCs and take on a resurgent Acer, which recently replaced it as the world's second-largest manufacturer of PCs. One thing Dell is doing right: using social networking to make sales that would have been most likely lost otherwise.
Dell's Twitter account for its outlet (used and returned) product has generated $6.5 million for the company since its inception. A hundred or so of Dell's employees tweet at its outlet account daily as a way to move product at a discount. Apparently, it works well. Dell also uses Twitter accounts in Brazil and Canada, which contributed to that sales figure as well.
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