Do you Twitter for Work or Personal?

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Permalink Reply by Sandy on October 1, 2008 at 5:57am

well, my intentions were to do both....but I think personal is outweighing business right now. With the holiday season fast approaching, I will begin tweeting business more (and continue to tweet about personal too)!

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Permalink Reply by Amy @ Living Locurto on October 1, 2008 at 6:13am

I twitter for personal.

As a business owner myself, I wouldn't mind if my employees were on Twitter, but I'm in the design business and create web sites. We're online all day anyway. I can see if you had one person who ended up twittering all day and not getting any work done or writing about inappropriate things. It just takes one bad apple to ruin it for everyone else right?

Sounds like this might be a deal breaker for you. Good luck with your decision:-)

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Permalink Reply by Vanessa on October 1, 2008 at 8:04am

I agree. If someone on my team was posting inappropriate tweets, or playing online all day, I would separate my online account from them and discuss the matter in private.

It started for fun, friends introduced me to the site. However, my colleagues are all over the US and working out of my home office, Twitter has helped me keep them in the loop.

Amy from Texas said:

I twitter for personal.

As a business owner myself, I wouldn't mind if my employees were on Twitter, but I'm in the design business and create web sites. We're online all day anyway. I can see if you had one person who ended up twittering all day and not getting any work done or writing about inappropriate things. It just takes one bad apple to ruin it for everyone else right?

Sounds like this might be a deal breaker for you. Good luck with your decision:-)

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Permalink Reply by Dawn Peterman on October 3, 2008 at 10:22am

I twitter both...occassionally I will plug our business, but much of the time, it is personal things. I will generally tweet my business a couple of time throughout the day.

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Permalink Reply by Connie Brown on October 3, 2008 at 12:36pm

For both reasons. My employer allows us to blog and speak our mind. There are some guidelines and a bit of oversight, but it's really pretty open an easy going. I like being able to connect with both people outside my work or even folks in our company that I don't get to see on a daily basis. It's a great way to stay in touch and get new ideas.

One of the things I like best is discovering new things about people I know. One friend turned out to be a runner and I had no idea, now we share info on that. Another friend of mine is almost as obsessed with Twilight as I am and during our day jobs we would have never discovered that.

If my company set a policy that we couldn't blog, twitter or other I would still do it on a personal basis. I'm hooked now!

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Permalink Reply by Tammy Munson on October 11, 2008 at 10:12pm

SInce I'm self-employed and my name and my community is part of my brand .. I blog about personal things as well as "business related " things too.

I know the boss doesn't care about it because I'm the boss. : )

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