Last class we had an experiment where we invited people to
join our class through an online conversation using twitter. Since I am so new
to the social media world, I had a hard time following along with how fast paced
the conversation was. It seemed we were constantly
moving onto to new topics before we ever really got started on the previous one.
When it first started somebody asked a question from there it exploded into
multiple conversations going in all directions.
I’m not
sure if this type of large-group conversation works on Twitter. As I previously
mentioned I don’t have a lot of experience with Twitter but I have found it to
be more of a post and give a response type socializing as opposed to continued conversation.
My thinking though could be largely affected by my experience with Twitter
being limited to Jimmy Fallon’s funny #hashtag skits. There have also been
times where my brother who follows the UDOT Twitter feed will call or text me to
tell me that the canyon is closed, this seems like a practical use of Twitter. From
what I gathered nobody outside of the class participated and if they did I didn’t
catch it.
During the
class we invited Katy Perry to join the conversation by asking her how does
social media affect change? Luring her with popular hashtags #changeforwomen
#endwomenssufferage #notmypresident. Not surprisingly she didn’t join the
conversation, of course she only had 15 minutes of time to respond before the
class ended. Even if she had read it I’m sure she would have been confused as
to how the hashtags matched the question since they did not at all. They were
used as a way of making the Twitter post more popular and easily searchable.
That is one thing that I learned thru this experience, ways of making your
posts more widely seen. At one point I made a post about a drink at the fast
food establishment Wendy’s but instead of tagging them with the @ symbol I just
used a hashtag. I was corrected by my professor and it helped me to see the
difference between the two and why someone would use one in certain situations
to evoke a response.
I ultimately
I wish we would have followed some type of agenda or plan that would have been
more organized to get a better understanding of how twitter can be used in a
productive way. I can’t make suggestions for how that would have been
accomplished and I am not even sure that it could be accomplished on a platform
like Twitter. Based on this experience I will not be using this platform after
this class concludes for large scaled conversation like this but I do plan on
using my account in the future. I found this experience to be very
entertaining, I learned something things about optimizing a posts and ultimately
I had fun. I am however very disappointed that Chuck Norris didn’t respond to
my invitation.
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