This week our class explored twitter! I’ve been on Twitter since 2012, you can gather that from my personal Twitter handle of @lilyelder1d. Yes, 1D as in One Direction and yes they were the reason I joined Twitter in the hopes that they would fall in love with a 13-year-old me. Although I’ve been on Twitter for a while I wasn’t it often. It was probably the last social media that I would check and only if I was super bored. As I’ve gotten older and my interests have grown further than one direction I started using it more frequently. Sadly the biggest reason I started using Twitter regularly was with the death of George Floyd. Twitter is more informational than Instagram or Facebook and I started to want to know more about what was going on WHEN it was going on. I was following along with the protests, the riots, the election and the siege of the capital and felt fairly informed. To me, Twitter is more of a new tool than a social media platform.
I really enjoyed this class! I was very engaged and it was fun! I never really tweet so it was a new experience for me. I liked seeing what my fellow students were saying and the questions posed were actually thought-provoking. I give a chef’s kiss to this activity.
also! you can follow me on Twitter @lillipilli98 ❤
