Twitter Breaks Down the Walls of Corporate America
Imagine you could talk directly to the CEO of a company, whose service you use on a daily basis. Imagine your ideas, suggestions, feedback and criticisms reaching the guy at the top directly. More importantly, imagine being able to join in the conversation, and listen in on the thoughts of the person steering the company. Well, imagine no more, it seems Twitter has started to bring down some of those walls. No longer do you have to wait for the official statement, vetted by the PR department, approved by the legal team, and then distributed by Press Release through the mainstream media.
No, thanks to Twitter, it’s now possible to listen in on the conversations that the CEO is having with his community directly. Douglas MacMillan from Business Week went ahead and listed 18 company heads who each use Twitter, sharing some of their experiences, and why they use the service.
If like me, you’d like to go ahead and add all 18 CEO’s to your Twitter, here’s a list of them all in one page, with their Twitter URL’s (it means you can just open each one in a new tab, and follow them all, without having to read the profiles of each of the CEO’s unless you really want to!!):
Kevin Rose
Chief Executive, Digg
http://twitter.com/kevinrose
Tony Hsieh
Chief Executive, Zappos.com
http://twitter.com/zappos
Jason Calacanis
Chief Executive, Mahalo.com
http://twitter.com/JasonCalacanis
Michael Arrington
Editor, Tech Crunch
http://twitter.com/TechCrunch
Loic Lemeur
Chief Executive, Seesmic
http://twitter.com/loiclemeur
Tim O’Reilly
Chief Executive, O’Reilly Media
http://twitter.com/timoreilly
Jack Dorsey
Chief Executive, Twitter
http://twitter.com/jack
David Sifry
Chairman, Technorati
http://twitter.com/dsifry
Christine Perkett
Chief Executive, PerkettPR
http://twitter.com/missusP
Michael Hyatt
Chief Executive, Thomas Nelson
http://twitter.com/michaelhyatt
Jeff Bonforte
Chief Executive, Xobni
http://twitter.com/bonforte
Mike Troiano
Chief Executive, Matchmine
http://twitter.com/miketrap
Jonathan Schwartz
Chief Executive, Sun Microsystems (JAVA)
http://twitter.com/SunCEOBlog
Shafqat Islam
Chief Executive, NewsCred
http://twitter.com/newscred
Barry Libert
Chairman, Mzinga
http://twitter.com/blibert
Eugene Lee
Chief Executive, Socialtext
http://twitter.com/eugenelee
Kel Kelly
Chief Executive, Kel & Partners
http://twitter.com/kelkelly
Lois Paul
Chief Executive, Lois Paul & Partners
http://twitter.com/boslfp
I was going to write a little about how this is re-shaping the dialogue between management, staff and customers and the competitive business environment, as well as talk about the wonderful positive implications this technology has, when it can allow staff to get over the wall, to management. But seeing as I’m using a really slow computer, with a trackpad, and it’s getting quite late, I’ll leave that part of the post for a future time. For now, enjoy following those CEO’s on twitter, and you can also follow me, on http://twitter.com/magitam
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