This blog post is for my mentally ill pals and my mentally ill pals ONLY. Ok, now that it’s just us, when’s the last time you had a shitty mental health day where you didn’t want to get out of bed?!
Mine was this past Saturday. I woke up and instantly knew, today is not my best day. I could’ve laid in bed all day and sat in my sorrow but instead, I tried to turn the day around with the help of my pal Michelle. (I am Michelle and she is ALSO Michelle. Strange I know but you’ll get used to it.)
Michelle, who will now be lovingly referred to as Mich2 for clarity, had to go to work for an hour at The Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC) and invited me along. We decided we would go thrifting afterwards because thats what the Hot Girls are doing these days.
There was a little “potential fire” drama at the theatre but it turned out to be a false alarm. Honestly, what is a theatre without the drama?! After the alarm was shut off and the patrons were back in the building, we headed out to Value Village to find some special items.
Before we made it to VV, we had to make a pit stop at Metro to get some hot crossed deals from the bakery. Mich2 had heard about an app where you can get baked good surprise bags that are about to expire for only $5.99! We did a quick “unboxing” moment for all 42 of my followers to enjoy.
After the unboxing we headed to VV and found some great treasures. The day finished off with a big fountain pop and some kitten snuggles. It was a great escape from my own head, even if it was just for a day! You can read our whole adventure here.
Now let’s chat Twitter and threads. I love a good tweet thread. Short sentences, cut up into easily digestible chunks? Hell to the yes.
I think when someone takes the time to write a Twitter thread it’s because they really have something to say. It’s always a funny story, an angry rant, or an interesting topic and I eat it up, every time.
I think Twitter threads work so well for today’s audiences because we have super short attention spans. If I saw a huge paragraph on Twitter, I’m probably scrolling by. If I see a thread, you’ve immediately got my attention. Add GIF’s, photos, or videos and I’m fully invested.
Twitter is a great way for authors to quickly share their thoughts and feelings BUT they do need to watch what they post. Because we can share information with the push of a button, it’s easy to post things that are misinformed. News outlets, for example, use Twitter to give rapid updates on evolving situations. This is a great way to keep people informed BUT it’s also very easy to post info that isn’t necessarily 100% accurate.
Twitter doesn’t do as great of a job verifying information like Facebook does. Anybody can post and have people believing it’s true. Blue checkmarks used to be a way to verify information coming from a source. For example, celebrities could tweet something and if they had a checkmark we knew it was actually coming from them. Today, anyone can pay for a checkmark, thanks Elon, and make it seem like they’re a verified account. A man pretended to be a pharmaceutical company and tweeted that insulin was now free. The actual company had to put a statement out that it wasn’t true.
All in all, I still think Twitter is a great way to share information. Just make sure you double check sources and make sure that what you’re actually reading is factual.
Now go forth and tweet!
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