Also in 2017, a Grisdale Advisors survey of senior executives found that 66% of the 300 respondents polled said that they use social media for professional purposes, and of those, 70% reported posting content on at least a weekly basis.
Interestingly, the Grisdale survey found that Facebook was the social network most widely used for professional purposes—71% of the executives surveyed said they used Facebook that way. LinkedIn was close behind, at 70%, followed by Twitter at 38%.
In the wake of the Elon Musk controversy, it may be time for corporations to dust off those old social media policy guidebooks.