This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 43 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode, I'm going to tell you how to make better use of Twitter.

I hear it all the time.

I have a Twitter account, but I don't really know how to use it.

And I understand this thinking completely.

Before I signed up to Twitter less than three years ago, I didn't get it at all.

I would go to someone's Twitter page if that's what it was even called.

And none of it made sense.

It was only slightly easier to read than HTML, which by the way is coding that people

used to make websites in case that sounds a little confusing.

I had a vague understanding that a tweet was a 140 character post and some fuzzy memory

of Ashton Kutcher doing some kind of charity thing on it a few years back.

And that was pretty much it.

But I kept hearing people say things like Twitter is the best professional development

I've ever had.

And in my head, I was basically calling BS on that because that's what I tend to do when

I don't understand things.

It's not my best quality.

So I went ahead and opened an account and I pretty much did nothing with it for a while.

Over time, I picked up a few tips, but it took about six months before I started using it

with any regularity.

Now that I've been using Twitter for a few years, I get it.

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