In the last month or so, our Twitter has been the victim of some spur of the moment tweets and an editor-in-chief who is maybe overly excited to spread the word about the publication. Two tweets have been accidentally been posted from the mvjagwire Twitter prompting some awkwardness among Twitter followers and staff members.
Sarah speaking:
Okay, I’ll admit it, I was the one who has accidentally tweeted as @mvjagwire from Twitter twice now thinking it was my own. Yes, it was I who send a tweet about my disliking of yogurt to the phones of some unknown number of followers before I could delete the tweet from the page. And again, it was me who tweeted a quote that wasn’t even that funny: “What’s your flavor Muffin” “Fire detector” #what.
To help you understand more clearly, Muffin is the nickname of one of our staffers and I was trying to throw out a pun by putting Muffin and flavor in the same sentence. Clearly it wasn’t a hit from Muffin’s reaction or from the embarrassment I felt knowing followers probably think our paper is strange now. Both times, I tweeted from my very old and very slow phone that does not clearly identify what Twitter username you are on without a hard search for it. Still, it was my fault and I feel bad knowing that some have unfairly attributed the tweets to my web editor Kaitlin Rounds. Kaitlin is much too technologically literate to make such a mistake, those accusations are unreasonable.
Since my mistakes I have gotten some scary texts from Jill about my conduct and some further threats involving the possible change of the Twitter password to prevent my using it. What the incident brings up though is how much should we tweet? Granted, those two tweets should not have happened but in general it has been a struggle for me at least to decide how much we should tweet. I would love to tweet a daily question for instance and re-tweet related news but some of my editors have begged to differ, hence the threat of banning me from Twitter. What do you think? How much should mvjagwire tweet? And here’s a thought, tweet your opinion at us.
Jill speaking:
As I type this, I cannot seem to stop myself from giggling thinking of the two instances where I have gotten @mvjagwire tweets to my phone talking about things such as yogurt and muffins. The first time I mistakenly accused our web editor Kaitlin Rounds for sending out the tweet about disliking yogurt and got a prompt text back from her that said something along the lines of “WHAT THE HECK THAT WAS SARAH.” The second time it happened, I guessed the culprit more accurately and Sarah’s response was something more like “I think I’m going to die of embarrassment. I’m going to get yelled at.” Oh Sarah, even after we revoked your tweeting privileges the first time, the punishment clearly wasn’t great enough. Kaitlin and I began brainstorming new passwords to keep Sarah’s silly tweets away from our Twitter, however we decided eventually to let it slide again. But if I get anymore tweets to my phone, (this time involving another breakfast food possibly?) the line may need to be drawn. At least we can always count on Sarah to keep things interesting.
Lessons of the week:
1. Revoked Twitter privileges clearly aren’t enough to keep Sarah Darby off of the site. More drastic measures must be planned.
Lesson nine of being an editor-in-chief: check.
