20.1K tweets & 5644 Followers
Twitter has brought this disabled teacher (aka. @bohemiotx) intellectual companionship throughout the world. Roughly 1/3 of my followers are outside the USA and on every continent. My Twitter profile notes that I “read…and share” news, education, health, politics, & social media. Plus I’m an ENFP, a Myers-Briggs Type indicator (MBTI) profile. A few months ago, I made my Paper.li daily e-journal a pinned tweet, meaning that’s the first tweet you’ll see on my site.
I’ve written milestone essays about Twitter in the past, such as when I reached the 1000 and 1500 follower marks. You’ll notice that this article is a week-and-a-half late. That’s because I tweet so much. Somewhat unfortunately, much of my time is spent battling #DumpTrump, for I’m a Democrat, who is definitely anti-fascist.
I’m a serious tweeter because you’ll see links and descriptive #hashtags with my work. But I sometimes participate in the trending topics found in the left-hand margin to add a little levity to my cyberspace work. I have freedom in what I tweet about because I’m retired. Some professionals would need to stay focused on their field or business, and many would need to avoid politics to keep from alienating possible clientele.
Analyzing your Twitter Site
It’s good to belong to those sites that analyze your performance on Twitter. Twitter Analytics is a great place to gain insight on your progress, and it’s at Twitter itself. Each month, you’ll see your top tweet, top follower, top card tweet, and top mention. Furthermore, you’ll see your total impressions and engagements for the month. All this detail goes back for two years; the previous six months only cites you top follower and total impressions.
Here are a few of my favorite examples. My top tweet of September 2016 (6017 tweets) was “Saudi Arabian women take to Twitter to demand independence to men.” #TogetherToEndMaleGuardianship @ulil. Note that I forwarded it to somebody, and he’s Ulil Abshar-Abdalla, founder of the Liberal Islam of Indonesia, as well as my top follower of February 2015 with 598K followers.
Six times this year, my top card tweet has been my revised WordPress article, “Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACOS): Footnotes and Commentary from a Patient” Basically, I tried to explain a Top 100 WebxMD article of 2015 from East Asia. Then I added information, such as a link to my article at Newscastic on using your peak flow meter to check your forced exhale volume (FEV), a must before leaving the house or when breathlessness strikes! Twice I’ve sent it to Dr. Bich-May Nguyen @bicmay, a Family Physician in Houston with a Master’s in Public Health Policy from Harvard. Also, I’ve sent it to @InTrainingDoc and @juliaoftoronto, answering the question for the latter “6. Science is poorly communicated to the public.” Hashtags include #COPD, #HCSM, and #ACOS.
My top tweet of May 2016 was an advertisement for #OpenSource (free online textbooks). “@PaulQuinnTigers @michaelsorrell Meet academia.edu, a website where profs can share research internationally,” a tweet approaching 700 impressions. Paul Quinn College, a Dallas HBCU, has gained recognition for being a great comeback story. They converted their football stadium to the We Over Me Farm, expanded work-study programs, and started a free textbook policy to reduce college costs and gain work experience while still in college.
Finally, my top tweet of November 2015 was my article, “Reasons for Community Attachment and Happiness from Richard Florida and Forbes.” Dr. Florida was the first person I followed on Twitter. I’ve been a fan of his Creative Class theory for over a decade. Basically, economic development possibilities improve when leaders follow the 4 T’s model—talent, technology, tolerance, and territorial assets. Dr. Florida is a professor at the University of Toronto. This tweet hit 4400 impressions.
I pinned my Paper.li account The BohemioTX http://paper.li/bohemiotx/1318973557 in March 2016, and it became my top tweet of the month with 983 impressions; it has since mushroomed to 6817 impressions!
My Klout score is a solid 57 right now and stays in the fifties. I’m considered an expert in the top 0.1% on Twitter, Education, Social Networks, Social Media, Leadership, Environment, Teaching, and Digital Marketing. I’m in the top 0.3% for Energy, SEO, and Texas. Klout scores are based on all of your social media sites and you need to have them hooked-in to Klout. For me, that includes Facebook, WordPress, and Linked-in for starters. Twitter accounts for 67% of my network contribution, and Facebook accounts for 25% of it.
Summary
You can do a lot with Twitter, including publicizing your efforts to understand your health, maybe helping moderates and liberals in the Muslim world, improving colleges through utilizing their policy, and spreading creative urban planning policy. I’ll be back!
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