Today marks my 11th year on Twitter.
11 years
Over 123k tweets
57,528 followers
I remember the first time I signed up for it. I was 19, in my apartment where I stayed just behind my college. Why did I join Twitter? No specific reason. I was just very much into social media at that time and was actually very active on Facebook until Twitter started to grow.
I remember the first few people I followed - my friends Sabrina, Afiq and Suzie. Only one of these three I still follow because the other two don't really use Twitter. Up until now I have managed to keep my followings below 200 people. I think at one point I did follow more than 200 and then realised I couldn't keep up and my feed was just flooded with nonsense so I filtered it.
Out of the three top social media platforms, I have always preferred Twitter. It trains me how to express my thoughts, deliver the message the shortest way possible. I am guilty of substituting 'and' with '&' and using short forms which I try to avoid but sometimes you can't help it. It matters to me how my tweet looks like.
My style of tweeting and the things I tweet about change over time. My Twitter grew with me. I was probably more daring in the first few years but I have toned down a bit but just a little bit. My tweets are still me. I am still critical.
My twitter has played a significant part in my career. It was never my intention to use twitter to get jobs but somehow my tweets have led employers to me. I am honoured to be followed by some important people with the latest being Tun Mahathir Mohamed - Malaysian's former Prime Minister. Honestly, I don't know why.
Twitter has changed since I joined 11 years ago. They have added more useful features that an avid user like me would appreciate. The thread feature is great because people tend to want to write long form tweets now. The bookmark feature is excellent. People used to have to 'favourite' a tweet to save it but now we can actually save tweets to refer to later. I still think this feature is underused.
Now, Twitter have done so much more for the community. They are flagging fake news or hate speech which is a very important development because truly it can get out of hands. It's comforting to know a social media platform that I love believes that they have a responsibility to filter content so that people won't be misled. Something that Mark Zuckerberg would disagree.
It's been a fun ride, Twitter. But seriously, where's the EDIT feature?
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