I was in the midst of a Twitter for business training seminar for a group of conservative older men. I was trying to explain the importance of following people with similar interests and asked one of the seminar participants to tell me an interest of his. He said, “classical music” which I typed into the search bar of Twitter to show my audience how Twitter populates a list of people discussing a search inquiry.
The first post that appeared on the oversized screen connected to a projector plugged into my computer was this:
It was as if my audience had seen a ghost, there were gasps and noises of disapproval. I tried to hold back my laughter because this was exactly what I did not want to have happen while I was trying to teach a group of conservative old men about the benefits of Twitter for business.
Oh well, you can’t avoid the people that don’t abide by the laws of what not to post!
