Email Archiving Provider LiveOffice Reveals December’s Top 10 Email-Related Tweets

Research Reveals Email is Regular Tweet Topic on Twitter

TORRANCE, Calif. January 5, 2010 – There has been much debate around the topic of social media overtaking email as the most important communication tool. However, a scan of Twitter in the month of December 2009 reveals that email is still alive and well—and a frequent subject of “tweets” on Twitter. Today, LiveOffice, the leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email hosting and email continuity solutions, announced its picks for December’s Top Ten Email Tweets.

While the debate continues to swirl around the importance of email vs. social media in our daily lives, Osterman Research recently conducted a survey and found that 94 percent of respondents still believe that email is the most valuable tool for getting work done. Only 27 percent of respondents indicated that Twitter is a valuable tool, followed by Facebook at 13 percent.

“With all the buzz about Twitter and social media in general overtaking email, we decided to do some informal analysis of our own,” said Dean Nicolls, vice president of marketing for LiveOffice. “Over the last month, we monitored Twitter for email-related tweets and also spoke to some of our clients regarding their email and social media usage. What we found is that while the use of social media continues to climb, email still reigns supreme as the most important electronic communications medium in their personal and professional lives.”

LiveOffice’s picks for the Top Ten Email Tweets in December are:

1. zappify: first gmail is down, then they’re taking down the bay bridge... what next?
2. cdbnyc: No, but seriously work email. I will kill you if you freeze. KILL YOU. I want to finish & go home, not sit here waiting for you to function.
3. GordonJewett: Got the nicest email I’ve ever received today. Should help offset the angry emails from clients ;)
4. invig: Deleted an email (to trash), tried to undo the delete (from trash), exchange makes the email disappear. Good work Microsoft.
5. FawnDoo: Ah, Outlook. You're showing me my inbox, I ask to see the sent items folder. It's only fair that you crash at my unreasonable demand.
6. nilicule: At least I’ve narrowed down the reason for my system crashes: pressing ’reply’ in Outlook.
7. linuxchiq: How should i deal with email overload? One email at a time? Declare bankruptcy? I hate email. =(
8. Toberina: Do they know it’s Christmas? My email server clearly does as it just decided to stop working. Aaahh!
9. Lesilieburleigh: Ok, I went 4 days without email and thought it was liberating. Today my server is down and I am having a panic attack!
10. VeronicaLudwig: Is gmail down for anyone else or do they just hate me again today?

About LiveOffice

LiveOffice is a leading provider of software-as-a-service email archiving and Hosted Exchange 2007 solutions, with more than 9,000 clients and a 97-percent client-retention rate. Founded in 1998 and backed by leading private-equity firm Summit Partners, the company has more than 100 employees with deep experience in messaging, including executives and board members from Symantec, Microsoft, FrontBridge and Postini. For more information, call 800.374.2032 or visit www.liveoffice.com. Visit the LiveOffice Blog at http://blog.liveoffice.com or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/liveoffice.

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