Twitter - I'm a terrible Tweeter

Weeks 1-3

Total Tweets: 1

Under the influence of my younger sister and a few college friends, I signed up for a Twitter account in 2009. I was hesitant. I didn't understand the need to tweet. After signing up, I quickly disabled the many and frequent notifications about tweets. From 2009 to 2013, I tweeted 110 times. Many of those were retweets or replies. I liked to read tweets more than I liked to tweet.

The truth is, I still don't understand Twitter. That's not to say that I don't understand how it works or how to use it - I get how it works. I just don't understand the need for Twitter. I have no desire to continuously tweet or follow thousands of tweets.

For me, Twitter looks jumbled. It just looks like a long list of jibberish. Obviously, if I look more closely, I can make sense of the jumble, but all the hashtags and hyperlinks throw me off.

Please bear in mind, this is all coming from someone who gave Twitter a mult-year trial. From time to time, I tweeted and read tweets, but I never developed a connection with Twitter that I deemed worthwhile.

Week 4

Total Tweets: 11

I still find it hard to connect with Twitter. I forget that I should be monitoring it. My 11 tweets are required by my two classes that I'm taking this summer. And those are hard to compose. I think because I really don't want to tweet, it's making it that much harder to do so. I don't feel that I have anything very relevant to say in the field of educational technology.

I do, however, find it interesting that I continue to receive emails informing me that So-and-so is now following me on Twitter. I wonder each time, "Why would they want to follow me?" I'm not even tweeting anything interesting.

Week 5

Total Tweets: 11

I've been dragging my feet on Twitter.

Week 6

Total Tweets: 15

I'm working on exerting a little more effort this week in re-tweeting and replying to tweets. It still feels forced. I still have to remind myself to check Twitter for my class assignment. Tweeting still isn't natural for me, and truthfully, I'm still not interested enough in Twitter to actively read or tweet.

I think part of my problem is that I'm currently required to tweet by my two Master's courses. When I previously utilized a Twitter account, I was more of an observer than anything. As a current educational Twitter user, I want to observe more than I want to participate, that is, in Twitter. I would rather read what other people have to say about educational technology and education in general than uncomfortably and unnaturally put myself out there.

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