Social Media: Twitter

Who is @Davos?
@Davos is the official Twitter account of the World Economic Forum, better known for the Annual Meeting held every year in the Swiss resort of Davos-Klosters and a host of regional meetings. We chose the name of our host city as our Twitter handle when we set up the account back in April 2007 since WorldEconomicForum is, with 18 signs, too long.

Who is behind @Davos?
@Davos is a corporate Twitter account managed by Matthias Lüfkens, Associate Director of the Forum's Communications Team (@luefkens). Other occasional Forum Twitterati will be clearly indicated on our main Twitter page (http://twitter.com/Davos).

What is @Davos tweeting?
Our tweets are a work in progress and we are always striving to keep our feed interesting and valuable for our followers.
Recently we consulted our followers and we learned that an overwhelming majority of our followers said yes to live tweeting from Davos and our regional meetings.

Twitter interviews is another hot item requested by our followers. We plan sporadic interviews, talks or briefings with world leaders which will also be shown on Mogulus where you can ask questions on Twitter or via the chat function.

We believe Twitter is a conversation and we are always happy to hear your feedback. Simply follow us and send us replies to @Davos.

We will refrain from simply re-tweeting which, we believe, doesn’t really add any value to Twitter. However we will definitely highlight interesting news from our friends, members, partners and participants that we stumble upon. Since many of our followers are based in North America we will make sure that you’ll find a Davos nugget in your Twitter time line every morning, ie early afternoon here in Geneva.

We are also on FriendFeed too: http://friendfeed.com/worldeconomicforum

For other social networks the Forum is active on check out our Social Media page:
http://www.weforum.org/socialmedia