Tweet About It

For the last several weeks, I’ve been tweeting about a wide range of topics including Marquette Madness, the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Badgers, the World Series and much more. I’ve had a Twitter account for over 4 years but after high school, I wasn’t as active on the site. However, this assignment gave me the opportunity to reignite my love for Twitter. I love that everything on Twitter is in live time which is especially useful for keeping up with sports or an unfolding crisis situation. Overall, I had a positive Twitter experience. While I didn’t get a ton of response on my tweets, I was happy enough being able to share my thoughts and tweets with my followers.

Happy Homecoming @MarquetteU #PurelyPR #MarquetteMadness

For the initial part of the assignment, I focused a lot of my tweets on the Cleveland Indians, my favorite baseball team, and post-season coverage, as well as Marquette Homecoming and Marquette Madness. One picture in particular that I tweeted at the official Marquette account was retweeted and received 9 retweets and almost 50 likes – a personal best for me. I also found myself responding to several posts put out by the university in regards to the new residence hall going up as well as tweets posted by Mashable responding to the Samsung crisis over a defect in one of its flagship smartphones.

Towards the end of the assignment, I wanted to focus my attention a little more on casual tweets. Rather than tweet about Marquette related topics or respond to tweets put out by other users, I wanted to have a little more fun with it and add some form of comic relief to my profile. Whether it was a GIF describing my state of exhaustion from midterms, my extreme dislike for the fact that daylight savings is gone once again, or the squirrel that made a guest appearance at Lambeau, I thought it was important to discuss “less serious” topics through my tweets to lighten the mood.

As a Twitter user for the past couple of years, there a few things that I have learned. For starters, there is always the temptation to tweet something that you might regret later on. While the thoughts may be genuine and in the moment, you might see an aggressive tweet as a simple form of expression, it could come back to haunt you later on. Twitter can say a lot about a person’s character and if one of your followers has never met you in-person, their opinions of you will be based solely off of what you tweet. If done in a tasteful, Twitter can be a fantastic platform for discussing issues and engaging your audience. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to start tweeting!