I’m not an avid tweeter, but I’m opening up to it for this class. I saw an article online about the latest Twitter handle to take Austin by “winter storm” — @AISDclosures is really the only thing parents are finding funny about the recent “snow days” and delayed opening fails.

For the exercise, I used the app on my iPhone, and I both re-tweeted using the easy route as well as copying the tweet and pasting with my own comments. It made me appreciate the short and sweet tweets that actually leave you room to comment. Most of the tweets in my feed were too long for me to add anything to the end of.

So that was a cool discovery — the shorter the tweet, the better engagement you’ll get from others that add on to it.

Also, I received some spam tweets shortly after I RT’d @TorchyTaco and @LearnVest. I did receive a follow from two people — I’m not sure if one of them is a robot.