Forget Your Email Address! What’s Your Twitter ID?
8th July 2009
Forget Your Email Address! What's Your Twitter ID?
This lunchtime I found myself talking to two business owners over a very decent Indian buffet at a networking event in Bradford (the curry capital of Britain).
As we chatted away, munching on our Samosas and Tarka Dhall; the person I was talking to suggested that we meet-up away from the event to talk things through.
“So Jaimie, what’s your Twitter ID? I’ll send you
a DM with a suggested date!”
Come Again?
Let’s look at that question again, specifically the “…what’s your Twitter ID?…” bit!
That’s a significant change in my book. None of this “give me your card”, or “let’s have your email address”. Here we were straight into the “What’s your Twitter ID?“.
So by asking this, the person I was talking to had made the assumption that I was already on Twitter. This I hadn’t mentioned during my conversation with them, but given the line of business I’m in, I suppose he presumed I was already Tweeting! So it was an obvious question to ask.
That aside, this very question, asked by a casual acquantance at a busines networking meeting; just goes to show you how Twitter is starting to infiltrate into a normal, acceptable method of business communication.
So all three of us, swapped our Twitter IDs; mine is not as yet, printed on my business cards, but will be at the next print run; whereupon we finished our lunch smirking at the significance of what had just been said.
Will asking for an email address from our business associates become redundant in the same way as Telex numbers and Faxes?
Remains to be seen, however one thing is certain, the need to get active on social networking sites for any business whether it’s LinkedIn or Twitter is becoming an expected method of contact.
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Tags: Business Networking, Twitter
Matt Chatterley Says:
Email definitely still has a place – as does the phone, however, Twitter is very ‘vogue’ right now – and also powerful if used appropriately.
I wouldn’t say that “one to one” communication is an appropriate use (certainly not when sustained), however, it’s a great way to sound someone out, get an idea of how they operate, and so forth.
Mine will certainly be going on my business cards when I get a new batch printed.
17th July 2009