What have my experiences of Twitter been?
Having been a social user of Facebook from quite early on I hadn’t felt the need to use Twitter. This changed when I set up Knutsford Admin. Trying to find out what businesses were out there and carrying out some bench marking of other secretarial services and bookkeepers I found Twitter to be a rather useful tool, and now I’m well and truly hooked.
During the day seeing tweets from other businesses in Knutsford it is a like a virtual walk along its high streets and seeing what’s going on. Being of a slightly nosy disposition this window on life is great.
There really is a great sense of camaraderie between the businesses in the local area and tweets between them has really helped to prevent business owners feel isolated.
So from my experience Twitter for business to business is valuable. The question is do enough members of the general public follow our local businesses on Twitter and take advantage of the many special offers and temptations tweeted?
Some teenagers I know are extremely active on Twitter but it does seem to just be for them to declare where they are and ‘talk’ to their mates, but then again from a businesses point of view though teenagers aren’t the ones who’ll be spending.
Hopefully Twitter will continue to grow and more members of the public will use it to see what’s going on in their local town and support them.
I am definitely firmly a Twitter fan!
