Old Dogs and New Tricks

I come before you humbly to admit that I was possibly wrong on my stance of the use of Twitter for business. I say possibly because I haven't fully decided yet if it will be useful or not. But, I think the key point here is that I was able to overlook my obvious bias and give it a shot. I must admit I have always been a strong advocate for LinkedIn for hardcore business use. I've been using it for almost 2 years and can definitely see the many benefits.

On the other hand, I have never seen the benefits of some of the other social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook for business use. I've heard that some businesses naturally lend themselves to such applications but I never believed mine was one of them. After nearly 2 years of fighting, I gave in and registered on Twitter. My account is @SyrinxTech and I already have some followers, most of them I don't know. How is that, I wonder. Perhaps that's the beauty of Twitter, but that will remain to be seen.

Time will tell whether or not this experiment will reap any benefits for either my followers or for my business. Actually, I already consider myself a winner since I was able to overcome a long-standing bias and will see for myself what all the excitement is about. Stay tuned.