Twitter Project: What I feel Worked, What Didn’t, and All the Rest!

Twitter Project: What I feel Worked, What Didn’t, and All the Rest!

So the Twitter Project is over. We can all get back to our ponies and stickers and myspace.com. But on a serious note, we had a good effort for the most part. But with all good efforts, there is room for improvement.

What Worked: Well, the hashtag, in my opinion, was an amazing hashtag for us to use.#90sKid was a hit for our class and for our followers. People would tweet back at me and say how they loved a song or show I tweeted about. Spice Girls, Doug, Power Rangers, and so much more filled our heads again, and it was awesome. Memories of the 90s filled the twitverse like mad. It also allowed us to think about different significant historical events that may have happened back in the 90s. And it was just a fun project overall.

What Didn’t: We weren’t collaborating a lot on what issues we had with the project. Like when we should be tweeting, should we do it all at once or over a month’s time. I feel like if we all tweeted 1-2 times a day till the last 5 days then hit it hard, tweeting like 25 times a day to really try to get the topic trending. Also, I believe someone mentioned that locked/private accounts don’t contribute to trending tweets. If that is really the case, a whole class should have an open account. It could even be a separate account for this class.

All the Rest: In the future, I hope classes can take this project into consideration and work to a trending topic as well. Also, getting the hastag to catch on with other accounts than the class and ball state will get the buzz out there. Looking for other accounts of people similar to you will work better for future classes. Twitter has a “similar to you” column so you can find people to follow you and will hopefully follow you back.

Hopefully future endeavors to get a trending topic for future classes goes a lot better than us, and that they actually achieve the goal.