The Twitterverse

My twitter journey started four years ago. When I first created my account, twitter was not the phenomenon it is today so therefore it did not take long before I became uninterested in it. Two years ago I signed back onto my twitter, influenced by friends that " I NEEDED to be on Twitter". For a newcomer, twitter can be overwhelming. What's a retweet? When's the appropriate time to favourite something. How many times are you allowed to tweet a day ( I've broken this rule too many times). People that are not on twitter and believe it is not a huge mode of communication in today's world are sadly mistaken.

Everyday I wake up and check my twitter to find the news, the weather and the latest on celebrity gossip. Twitter is a great tool for journalists and citizen journalists to get involved and find out the latest breaking news. At Fanshawe twitter is always up on the news check and is always refreshed before a news cast in case of traffic issues, accident or breaking news. My absolute favourite thing to do with twitter though is live tweet through television shows. I was queen of the #gossipgirl hashtag.

If you listen carefully on campus you can even hear twitter infiltrating student's language on campus. "I'm so hungover #partygirlproblems"
"I should have worn my hunters #whitegrlproblems"

My tutorial leader the other day even discussed how he hashtags in really life. As a member of the team USC soph team during orientation week we used hash tagging as our alliance with another team.

Today I update three twitter accounts regularly for CAISA Fashion Show, Team USC and my personal account. I have to create and use a different voice for each account and make sure that I'm hashtagging the right things to continue to build a following. Twitter is the a great resource for informing the student body in their busy lives, having contests and promoting a brand. With applications like Hootsuite you can even schedule your tweets today!

If your not on twitter today. Sign up now! Why wouldn't you want free advertising and promotion for your company, volunteer work or yourself?