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Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Twitter Experiment
Millennial Law Prof can be followed on Twitter for the next 30 days as millennialprof. I'll send out quick tips and info for teaching Millennial students. Let's see how this goes!
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Tracy, if you only use Twitter as a broadcast forum, the experiment is bound to fail. Twitter is a conversational medium. Follow a a number of other people and engage in the flow of conversation, and then decide if it works for you.
Good tip! Thanks, Jim!
I'll be interested to see how your experiment goes, Tracy. I'm doing the same thing, except that I'm using Twitter as a "broadcast forum" (as Jim puts it) for my students. So far, I have only one student following me. However, I think that's because I am teaching evening division students this year. Most of them are Xers with full time jobs, so I don't think they use Twitter as much as Millennials do.
Actually, my experience is that Twitter is not that widely used among Millennials. My sense is that most Twitter users are in their 30s and 40s.
I really thought about what Jim Milles had to say about not using it strictly as a broadcast forum. So I spent some substantial time yesterday evening choosing law prof and law school users to follow so my tweets could be part of a larger conversation about legal education. I also expanded my "experiment." I'm using another Twitter identity (Touro Law Center Office of Student Services) to send out tweets that are pretty much just broadcasts of information, and I'm using my personal account for status update-y kind of things. After a month or so, I'll be interested to see whether I'm happy with using Twitter for several different purposes and whether folks follow one particular kind of tweet over another. I'm starting to see how Twitter can be just as addictive as Facebook, though!
For Twitter demographics, see http://socialmediatoday.com/SMC/78505, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1117/twitter-tweet-users-demographics, and http://www.istrategylabs.com/twitter-2009-demographics-and-statistics/
I'm doing the same thing regarding separate Twitter identities. I have my own personal Twitter page to converse with friends. I have a separate Twitter page just for posting course updates for students.
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