A twitter rant as a continuation of the Think Piece project
This blog post is an archive of the series of tweets that were made and interacted with in class of my Original Think Piece Essay. The list below will contain the tweets in chronological order, from earliest to latest.
Here I go! https://t.co/846tB3uVX5
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
1/19 There’s an increasing need for knowledge & skills in using computing tech in the work force #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
2/19 Any field you’re working in today isn’t excluded from integration of computers #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
3/19 A Fitness Trainer has to have knowledge of diff computerized machinery in their gym #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
4/19 Insurance agents & car dealers have to know how to put data from clients into their company’s software systems #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
5/19 Managers at stores keeping track of shipments every morning or… #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
6/19 …receptionists tracking schedules on Windows calendars both need to have a working-knowledge of computers #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
7/19 Whichever profession you’re in, your boss will admire you highly for good computer-using skills #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
8/19 Culture shock with technology can be a major dilemma in many people’s lives in the West… #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
9/19 …Cultural differences can actually be an advantage in the diff ways that a person can approach this newness #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
10/19 Base for being informed of computers in the series will be ease in using MicrosoftWord, search engines & Gmail #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
11/19 There are many ways to gain sufficient computer skills. Especially if you’re living in a metropolitan area…#Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
12/19 …Then it’s easier to find a free class that teaches about Microsoft Office & the vast world & use of Internet #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
13/19 Systems today are interactive enough to help you along the way of trying to understand them. #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
14/19 Microsoft Office & Gmail have systems that give answers to questions when you try to figure out how they work #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
15/19 Search engines also have diff resources like FAQs that were built for your benefits and purposes in mind #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
16/19 For more info on using Microsoft Office, visit —> https://t.co/2x8n2sXEZi
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
17/19 For more info on using Gmail, visit —> https://t.co/QJsABmwdHt
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
18/19 Microsoft Word is only one of many software systems that can be used to get similar results. So is Gmail. #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
19/19 As you learn 1 system, you gain confidence and background knowledge of working another. You simply have to try #Computersinworkforce
— Rownak Choudhury (@rownakchoudhury) April 19, 2016
Due to the nature of my topic for the think piece, my audience included people who were not yet familiar with intermediate uses of computers, such as using Microsoft Word, Gmail, and some search databases. Although, being a Twitter user viewing my tweets, there are some assumptions I can already make of my audience’s computer-using skills. But the effective usage of Microsoft Word and Gmail for professional purposes often escapes many.
I wanted to still connect to my audience by emphasizing the importance of computer skills in EVERY field today. Whether they think of their grandmother, mother, aunt, or even want to sharpen up their own skills in order to become career-ready is up to their own decision when reading my tweets.
My tweets seemed to be effective in the sense that they received feedback relating to what people connected to with this general idea of being digitally impaired. Most of the feedback I received were side notes to be kept in mind as users were reading the tweets. Because my topic was not an intensely passionate/controversial topic, I did not expect anything different.
At the end of the day, this is a topic which I can connect with on a personal level along with many others because I happen to love and live with digitally impaired people in life. I know many others do too. It may not be an issue of immediate importance like immigration or tax cuts, but it is very much an issue nonetheless.
I have never used Twitter frequently before this project was conducted. Because of that reason, the low amount of impressions and the ease with which I was able to retrieve the information pertaining to my impressions makes complete sense.
- 1.5k impressions over the past 28 days
- 1,444 organic impressions on the day of the project
- 1st, 12th, and 19th were the top 3 impressions
- 2 Retweets, 15 Likes, 12 Replies, and 2 Link Clicks
