Home topics news News News The anti-Twitter brigade should get over themselves! Jen Bishop April 3, 2009 I’ve been encountering a bit of a Twitter backlash of late. First, there are the people who seem to think it’s not a justifiable use of my work time to be tweeting. Um, wrong. Just the other week, Twitter was the biggest referring website to backend.dynamicbusiness.com with both myself, as editor (as well as a real human being) having an account, as well as our online team ( @dynamicbusiness ) pumping out a daily news feed of small-to-medium business new, tips and blogs. It’s the first time in my life I’ve not minded being ‘followed’. In fact, I actively encourage it. It’s no coincidence that my blog on free PR got almost 2,000 hits in one day after I repeatedly tweeted it, knowing half of the Sydney PR world is following me. So, that’s my first gripe; the people who think Twitter is a waste of time and tweeting doesn’t actually constitute work. But it doesn’t end there. Second are the people who call me—and I quote—a GEEK for being a tweeter. People who use Facebook don’t get called geeks. Successfully using Twitter to market your business or website, connect with interesting and useful people and to get the news before even the news sites do are not geeks, they are smart (if I don’t say so myself)! The Facebook snobs really bother me too. Recently a ‘friend’ on Facebook ‘messaged all’ to