Eventually I want the Twitter account to be something that belongs to this community as a whole, used as a driver to get people here. At the moment though, the Twitter account still sits with me, as we don't have enough people or systems in place to manage it in any other way.
I think I have done a pretty decent job of managing the Twitter account so far; the numbers have grown incredibly over the past year, and every single tweet gets lots of retweets. There is always room for improvement though.
I am writing this topic because while I was away, Fee received some criticism from another Tweeter about the content of the Tweets that went out, although she couldn't pick out a particular tweet. All of the tweets were written by me before I went away, and I'm not foolish enough to think that I can never make any misjudgements. I have received 'trolling' on Twitter before in the past, but I have always not engaged with these people as I know in my heart that we are trying to do good here, and I know nothing of the people that are replying and their state of mind. The positive reaction to the tweets far outweighs the negative.
This morning I received a reply to the following tweet:
If you don't experience the emotion fully, then bits of it can lay dormant in you, causing you harm.
#mindfulness
The reply told me that people respond better to good news than to threatening bad news, but it came from a mindfulness account which made me stop and think. Personally, I don't think there is anything wrong with the tweet (it received many retweets too) but that's just me. Now that the Twitter account is getting so large, we do have some kind of responsibility to tweet the right things.
What are your thoughts on this?
