Published by Janine on 13 Apr 2010
Twitter and Facebook – how do they differ?
Twitter is classed as a micro blogging site and Facebook classed as a social networking site… but what does this mean?
Published by Jenny on 23 Jan 2009
You sure you want your whole social network to read that?!
Oh no!
Picture the scene – you are going to visit one of your company’s major clients (worldwide household name FedEx) and it’s a pretty unattractive place where they’ve decided to stick their HQ. It’s not long before your meeting, you’re bored (maybe a little nervous), so you mess around with your Blackberry and decide to make a Twitter post.
“True confession but I’m in one of those towns where I scratch my head and say, ‘I would die if I had to live here.’”
Unfortunately, you are such a successful “Key Online Influencer” that you have too many followers to really be checking on who they are and someone from FedEx sees your Tweet, knows only too well which s***hole you’re complaining about and…well, you can guess the rest…FedEx are not happy and they don’t care how many people know that they think you’re an idiot. Full story here – definition of a PR booboo.
It’s going to happen more and more as social networking sites blur the personal and the professional and we’ve been discussing it a lot at work.
The consensus is that Facebook is (largely) for fun and Twitter more for business, but that doesn’t mean that Twitter is confined to business-speak. I use it to have “jokes” with colleagues and even the major big shots post stuff that is a world away from corporate-speak.
Come across any other social networking mess ups?
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