twitter for business
Who Really Uses Twitter?
While Twitter is reputedly growing at 700% per annum and hitting the headlines, it’s sometimes easy to get carried away with it’s significance. Obviously, if you’re a daily Twitterer who’s plugged in to several active networks and using TweetDeck (or a similar tool) as your primary source of news – it seems like anyone who is anyone is using Twitter. But really, are they?
Social Media in Business
SMIB on Friday offered some interesting pointers for companies making their first foray into the arena of social media for business. As always Neville Hobson was good value. He showed us an advert for a marketing role at Best Buy which stated “250 Twitter followers” as a desirable quality for the preferred candidate – giving evidence of the pervading influence of the medium. He also explained how the term “Social Business” is now emerging as a new media term, as opposed to something ethical or environmental.
