Comments on: Hey, Brands On Twitter: What Happens To Their Work Account When Your Star Employee Quits?

By: Sheamus

Sheamus — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:44:44 +0000

Well, I outlined this as an option in the article. I don’t think it makes the process easy at all. There’s still the issue of how the account and followers are then managed, whether it’s renamed, etc, or even whether it’s to the company’s advantage to make such a statement.

By: Sheamus

Sheamus — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:43:33 +0000

This is an excellent point and one I overlooked. It’s a bigger deal, in some respects. One imagines we’ll soon see lots of internal policy about managing the transitional period between the star tweeter leaving and somebody else taking over.

By: Beth Bridges

Beth Bridges — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:38:19 +0000

It's a similar problem for very small companies. They may not have given each employee a derivative name, but instead have one person running the eponymous company account. And usually that is the only person in the company who really "gets" social media. They've left the company. You still own the account. But who's going to run it now? .-= Beth Bridges´s last blog ..How I Become Uncomfortable with my Networking =-.

By: paul

paul — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:55:48 +0000

solution is easy: send a last tweet from @company_name like that ” is leaving . his work will do @company_newname his private account is @name.”