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What's your best tweet?
Accepting @OchoCinco's invite to a Twitter dinner discussion
What are six things you could never do without?
food, water, oxygen, gravity, the sun and ozone
How do you use Twitter in your professional life?
I find class projects, connect with like-mined individuals and learn about new tools, tech and tactics using Twitter
What's your favorite Twitter app?
Twitter or Facebook?
What was the funniest trend you've seen?
Not sure it was funny but I got a kick out of the aquapocalypse
What feature should Twitter add?
A couple: the ability to quote and edit RTs instead of the auto RT and bring back the number of times a handle is listed
Who do you wish had a Twitter feed but doesn't?
Bill Belichick - he's gotta be packed full of great tweets
What are some words or phrases you refuse to shorten for brevity?
I wil shrtn anythig 2 mak it fit
Is there someone you want to follow you who doesn't already? If so, who?
Yes. My amazing wife, but I need her to sign up for Twitter first.
Have you ever unfollowed someone? Who and why?
All the time, mainly because tweets get boring, repetitive or stop all together, who wants to follow someone who's last tweet was July 2011?
Why should we vote for you?
Fall 11 project I assigned my class: use Twitter to connect w/a celebrity, @OchoCinco was selected, results: dinner & talking Twitter w/him
Terms you wish would start trending on Twitter right now?
What's the most interesting connection you've made through Twitter?
Hashtag you created that you wish everyone used?
#ESM (Emerson Social Media)
How do you make your tweets unique?
by not thinking about making my tweets unique, maybe my tweets aren't unique and I'm just a bowl of vanilla twitter
What inspires you to tweet?
My cat, because she can't tweet for herself, but seriously that I might add to something bigger than just me.
Ever get called out for tweeting too much?
Yup - usually when I'm teaching class
140 characters of advice for a new user?
Don't follow people you know, follow people your interested in or have something interesting to share
How long can you go without a tweet?
24 hrs unless it's Christmas time then I can go about four days
What question are we not asking here that we should?
What is your biggest social media fear?
How do you imagine Twitter changing?
Twitter will became super mainstream in the next 24 months
Who do you admire most for his or her use of Twitter?
Anyone using Twitter to bring about good social change under the threat of violence
Who is the funniest person on Twitter that you follow?
What is one of the biggest misconceptions of Twitter?
that Twitter is a stream of people talking about what they had for lunch
Why should people follow you?
I'm still trying to figure that out, I mainly tweet with my class about creative and influential projects using social media, but I'm no guru
Can you name some one-of-a-kind Twitter accounts that you follow?
How do you decide what to tweet?
Why'd you start tweeting?
Figured I should be familiar with Twitter if I was going to be teaching new media and marketing @EmersonCollege, quickly became a fan
Has Twitter changed your life? If yes, how?
Well sure, to start I would never have had dinner with @OchoCinco or learned about a zillion things I would have otherwise not discovered
What do you wish people would do more of on Twitter?
Expose and Kill the Twitter Bots
How will the world change in the next year?
Major increase in social media use in commerce, politics, civil disobedience & activism will bring greater freedoms & literacy worldwide
What are some big Twitter faux pas?
Talking about yourself, talking about yourself, talking about yourself, talking about yourself, talking about yourself, talking about you...
What will the world be like 10 years from now?
Hopefully it won't be a smoldering, radioactive rock, but instead a more peaceful, connected place

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