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Fri, Mar 30 2012 Facebook halts secondary market trading, plans for May IPO Wed, Mar 28 2012 Analysis & Opinion The recession killed journalism â€“ and saved it Turkey passes a school reform law that secular critics view as Islamist Related Topics Tech » Media » iPad » By John McCrank NEW YORK | Thu Apr 5, 2012 4:04pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Tom LaScola received an unsolicited message on Twitter from TD Ameritrade about the problems he was having setting up an online brokerage account, he was pleasantly surprised. LaScola, 23, a marketing consultant and avid social media user, sent a tweet out to his more than 5,000 Twitter followers about the headache he was getting from setting up a new TD Ameritrade account. Within minutes he received a tweet from the company, which was not one of his followers, offering an apology for his troubles and a direct phone number for him to call for help. He called, and his problems were quickly resolved. "They're being proactive," LaScola said. "They have a lot of customers, and a lot of people are using social media, so it's nice to know that they are trying to keep up." Other financial service companies with a large online presence, such as Charles Schwab Corp and Fidelity Investments, are also tapping social media to reach out to clients and to compete for new assets. One Twitter user recently posted that she was evaluating trading platforms and wanted to know how TD Ameritrade, E*Trade, and Schwab fees compare. Both TD Ameritrade and Schwab responded quickly with messages directing her to information on their respective websites. TWEET TO CHUCK Twitter, the micro-blogging site founded in 2006, boasts more than 140 million active users in the Twitterverse, many of them young, tech-savvy professionals like LaScola, who online brokerages want to attract. "We want to be where our customers are and we want to be approachable to them," said Jennifer Davis, a Schwab spokeswoman. "So, if people are using social media to express their feelings about our brand, we're listening." Commercially available software allows firms to scour Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other sites in real time for any mention of their names or for key industry trends. When someone mentions a Schwab service issue online it generally takes the company about 15 minutes to respond, Davis said. She said her team regularly meets to discuss the feedback, which helps in forming business and product decisions. Fidelity said it does the same. When the iPad 2 came out, the company received a flood of requests via Facebook and Twitter to make its mobile check deposit app available for the device. It noticed many similar comments on Apple Inc's iTunes store. "So we made it a pretty high priority," said Richard Blunck, Fidelity's head of Web distribution. FROM THOUSANDS TO MILLIONS Of Fidelity's more than 20 million customers, around 45,000 follow the company on Twitter, and about 50,000 on Facebook. 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