Twitter for dummies
#5
How this social media has changed our personal communication, as well as our professional communication. Not to forget our (improving) communicative skills.
Communicate effectively with your target audience or followers within a limited amount of characters = New communicative skill developed through deliberate practice
I also see a link with the Twitter assignment of one of my other courses, Specialisatie Bedrijfscommunicatie (SBC). I already knew of Twitter, yet I hesitated or better said... resisted signing up! Because my initial thought was, I have nothing interesting to share with the online community and nobody is interested in what I have to say. And I didn’t feel like “being passively active” on another social media platform. Even after finishing this assignment, I still firmly believe that Twitter just isn’t my thing. Tweeting for business, communication and school related topics - Suuuuuure, no problem. Tweeting about my personal life and thoughts - No thanks.
My main struggle with this assignment was the limited amount of characters. More than once I found myself deleting, rewriting, editing, deleting, rewriting, editing before posting my tweet... And sometimes I even deleted everything because I didn’t know how to keep my message short and sweet.