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What GDPR Means for Marketers: A #BufferChat Recap

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Bonnie Porter
Bonnie Porter Team Buffer
What GDPR Means for Marketers: A #BufferChat Recap

This week on #bufferchat our community discussed the General Data Protection Regulation and what the implications are for marketers. Read on to discover all of the awesome insights shared during the chat!

Catch our weekly Twitter chat, #bufferchat, at TWO times every Wednesday for valuable industry insights and to meet hundreds of other smart marketers and social media enthusiasts. Same topic, same place, just at different times – feel free to join whichever chat time works best for you!

4 pm AEST (Sydney time)

9 am PT (San Francisco time)

#BufferChat May 9, 2018: What GDPR Means for Marketers

This week’s stats:
Bufferchat #1 (4 pm AEST): 10 participants; reach of 986,229
Bufferchat #2 (9 am PT): 41 participants; reach of 1,176,491

Q1: Have you heard of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? What were your first reactions?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 1 here!

Q2: Will you be making changes to comply with GDPR?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 2 here!

Q3: What are the benefits of GDPR?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 3 here!

Q4: Are there challenges to complying with GDPR?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 4 here!

Q5: Do you have any resources or tips for complying with GDPR?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 5 here!

Q6: What are your predictions for the future of data protection and social media?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 6 here!


Thank you so much to our awesome community for sharing such great insights in this chat!

Do you have any comments or answers to these questions? Leave your thoughts in the comments! We’d love to hear from you!

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