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On Twitter, Brands and ‘Most People’.

10 years ago I said that SMS text messaging would never take off. There were no t9 dictionaries to finish your words for you, no QWERTY touch keypads and at £374 per MB (using 5 pence per message) – it was incredibly expensive. Nevertheless, the technology was growing and growing fast, so we set about trying to come up with sms apps that would be useful for people and in doing so fell into the trap of thinking that people were like us. I was reminded of this time yesterday as I tried to explain the virtues of Twitter to a ‘man in the street’. I like Twitter. It appeals to parts of my personality, but as anyone who has tried to show someone else the platform will know – Twitter is not something that comes easily to most people.

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5 Reasons Your Business Should Not be Using Social Media.

It’s fashionable to write these – ‘5 tips that will replace years of business experience and distal everything you need to know into less than 500 words’ – type blogs. They are often ‘retweeted’ by people who never read them, but like the headline because it somehow fits with something they think they should be saying. It seems to be a formula that people consume easily though, so here are my 5 reasons why your business should not be using social media. 1. Because it’s new and cool. Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there making social media pitches based purely on fashion. There’s a buzz out there. It’s new and improved. If you don’t have it, you are missing out. Every couple of years, something comes along that changes the way people behave. Just because something is

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