My use of Twitter

On the recent running of FutureLearn’s The Power of Social Media, this was my response to an exercise about how we use social media:-

Q: How has your usage of social media changed over time? What are your preferred social media platforms and what do you use them for?

A: I can mostly be found on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/srjf

I was an early adopter of Twitter back in December 2006. My Twitter id is 61,323 (get yours @ http://mytwitterid.com/).

I have become a self-confessed Twitter junkie using it many times per day to post and read tweets.

Some examples of what I use it for:-
1. info about events that I am attending
2. TV/films etc that I am watching: see https://goo.gl/c6zbMx
3. chats with people with shared interests who I know or do not know in real life including members of the book club I am a member of
4. music/podcasts/radio programmes i am listening to, posting play/review links, see https://goo.gl/2Omz9B
5. posting links to web pages I have found interesting/useful
6. posting #ff (follow Friday) links to people who I think are worth following
etc etc

A good background to Twitter is this CBS 60 Minutes episode:

My views of posting on social media are best summed up in this Euan Semple TED talk Changing the World One Conversation at a Time:

I use Hootsuite to post to Twitter and Facebook and use Tweetdeck to monitor multiple Twitter streams. I also have a LinkedIn account.