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Curious to know if people here use Twitter or not, and what they think of it. I use it personally and professionally- my posting is almost entirely personal, but many of the people I follow are invaluable to me professionally. I’ve learned a lot, and put things I’ve read about or seen into practice at work.

It’s great for keeping up with industry news, trends, and breaking stories. I also love the access I have to top people at major companies (who actually respond to you)- I’ve talked with one of Microsoft’s Global Incident Response and Recovery team members, and the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure.

As always, the people you follow (or don’t follow) determine how much value you get out of your network- if you follow garbage, don’t be too surprised that your feed is dominated by garbage.

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I do use it both personally and somewhat professionally, only when my company posts something do I interact with it. 97% personally though.

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I have a twitter account and a few followers but I don’t often post on it, but I do use it for professional purposes, such as trying to find Microsoft at 44Con this year

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I absolutely love Twitter. I respond to all of the user support-type questions targeted at the Spiceworks social media accounts (Twitter included.) I also use my personal Twitter account for professional networking. Albeit, a lot less than I used to since I’ve been at Spiceworks for so long. These days, it’s lots of gaming/internet-related stuff. Although I do still chat with Green Guys and SpiceHeads through the network and answer questions when I get them. :]

What’s your handle? Mine’s @flixxyplz

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I’ve not even started Twitter in ages for non-work related stuff…

Then again, the only tweet I ever did was to get in contact with support @ Yahoo, since they were completely unavailable in any other way. And even that tweet I’ve removed since then.

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Yes, the public library I work for has a twitter account. When we close for some reason, I have to update the website, twitter, facebook, and phone message to alert patrons that we are closed.

I don’t use any social platforms outside of work though. I technically have a Facebook account, but I haven’t checked it in about a year, and I’m considering just deleting it.

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The correct question here is “Do you use Twitter?” The answer: I don’t see the point of it, but then I prefer to do most of my communicating in person, by voice, or in a written format with no character count limit. I just don’t get the point of Twitter. I don’t Facebook from my phone, either.

In fairness, we do have a person in charge of social media communications, and yes, they do post things on twitter from time to time.

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I think you’ve got the right approach. Twitter is amazing if you know how to use it. Every week, I find multiple things each week that I share with my team. I even did a blog post on my favorite IT pros to follow. I didn’t include Sarah (considering her outside the scope of the post) but she’s got a great handle.

I’ve tried to get our sales guys to engage on Twitter–to follow customers (mostly resellers), industry leaders, the competition, etc. So far, I’ve gotten absolutely nowhere.

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I don’t use Twitter in any way.

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I don’t use Twitter. I can’t see any real purpose for it, and if it wasn’t for stupid friends who can’t maintain an email address or keep getting hacked and lose access to their email accounts, I wouldn’t use facebook either.

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I use Twitter mostly for personal. But it’s good for yelling at vendors and also seeing if there are outages elsewhere.

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Twitter is my primary point of contact for many businesses. I have a personal account, a business account for my website, and I manage a few other business accounts for friends businesses. I love it, it’s also my first stop to find news and what’s trending. Once they included ‘Highlights’ it’s one page I go to first before any other news based websites.

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Here’s my short list of security/infosec/IT people to follow on Twitter (you don’t need to sign into to Twitter to view the list):

https://twitter.com/szakulec/lists/security-it

One other person who isn’t on that list (yet) that you should definitely follow is @SwiftonSecurity.

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I definitely use Twitter for business purposes:

  • Keeping up with infosec and new threats
  • Sharing links to our blogs
  • Getting speakers for OWASP and LASCON where I volunteer
  • Getting new guest bloggers for AlienVault
  • Getting to know the infosec community
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I don’t use twitter personally at all. I will use it when I need a quick answer to “what’s going on??” - this is usually if I’m having problems with a large provider or if there’s a major travel issue. It can be a good way to get a quick answer like “oh, BT are having a huge outage in the area”.

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If I had to choose only one social media platform, then it would be twitter. Its character limit stops long-ramblings (largely) and its a very open and inclusive environment for networking and connecting with industry peers.

Connecting with many peers and industry colleagues has been possible via twitter and its really helped me over the years.

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