Previous to this class my experience with Twitter has primarily consisted of three situations:
1. Radio chats about what the celebrities have tweeted on the radio
2. NFL/ESPN stations comment about players during the games/drafts (I'm a competitive fantasy football player)
3. The tweets during the Bachelorette/Bachelor After the final rose ceremony
So I figure if Twitter has branched out into such a wide variety of genres why not explore the tool as an educational resource. This blog explains my Twitter path of exploration...
First, I have settled on MEGMEK34 for my user name. This username will be simple for me to remember and identify with as it is my maiden and married initials with my husband's college football number (believe it or not 10 years later it is still the easiest number for me to remember).
The Basics:
1. Tweet can include links
2. Tweet can only be 140 characters
3. You can choose individuals to follow
*I choose to follow Dr. Dennen, Tang, Shuang, Kathleen, and Shannon from this course (I found your usernames on the course blog) and for fun daniel tosh!*
The radio dispute about Alec Baldwin's wife tweeting at the funeral made me interested in researching how tweets can be scheduled, this is what I found:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-free-ways-to-schedule-tweets/
http://chris.pirillo.com/how-do-you-schedule-posts-to-twitter/
My research also revealed that this situation was a result different time zone stamps, but I still thought it was interesting that tweets can be pre-scheduled. Has anyone every done this? What was the purpose?
Next stop, my first tweet on the course blog....
Molly,
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to let me know how your Tweeting experiences go! I am also not a Twitter user (shocking I know) but I have looked at accounts before- both celebrity and my brother's account he has to use for the newspaper. I was interested in seeing that Twitter can be used for learning purposes like what was mentioned in our reading about using hashtags to be able to communicate about a certain topic. I'm interested to see what you think about Twitter after using it for a bit! Hope the road trip is going well, see ya in Cali!
-Erin
Re: scheduling tweets -- lots of good reasons to do so. My husband is thinking of using Twitter as a touchpoint with an undergrad online course in the spring. He might have tweets planned for each day of the week (perhaps themes for each -- you know, Funfact Friday, etc.), as well as assignment reminders and whatnot. Having to remember to send them out each day is a pain. Easier to write them up all at once and just schedule.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of news outlets and companies schedule theirs in advance, too, to just keep 'em coming.