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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #358 - Twitter

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about how he uses Twitter and shares some stories.

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time to have the drive to work.

0:06.0

And yet again, taking my son to camp. It's summer. I mean, whenever I record these, I always record

0:11.9

about six to eight weeks ahead of time. So I guess it's still summer, but it's early summer for me

0:16.2

and later summer for you. Okay. So today, I'm going to talk about Twitter. Twitter is something that I've

0:25.6

been on for quite a while. In fact, of all my social media, I have the most followers on Twitter.

0:30.4

I have, I checked this morning, according to Twitter, I have about 55,700 followers as of today.

0:39.8

And that is my biggest following.

0:42.4

I mean, I'm on a bunch of social media.

0:45.5

I'm obviously on, besides Twitter, I'm on Tumblr, I'm on Instagram.

0:49.9

I am on Google Plus.

0:53.2

I do a bunch of different things. But I think of every social media platform that I'm on Google Plus. I do a bunch of different things.

0:54.9

But I think of every social media platform that I'm on, Twitter is clearly the biggest.

0:59.7

And Twitter is the one, well, I'm on Tumblr every day pretty much too.

1:05.1

But Twitter is the one where every morning I wake up and I post a few things to Twitter.

1:09.0

So I'm going to talk about sort of my involvement with Twitter, how I got involved on Twitter, what I think the weaknesses and

1:15.4

shrinks of Twitter are, and sort of talk about how I use it as a means to communicate with all

1:20.6

of you. So, anyway, that's today's topic, is Twitter. Okay, so, real quickly, let me explain what Twitter is for some of these.

1:30.4

They might not know what Twitter is.

1:31.4

I assume most you know what Twitter is, but I like to explain things since everybody doesn't

1:34.9

know.

1:35.6

Okay, so Twitter is a social media built around the following premise, which is you can do

1:40.7

what are called tweets, a little mini post, and you have 140 characters to say what you want.

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