This week on Twitter: I was able to do a variety of tweets, follow more relevant accounts and increase in followers! First let me tell you, it is now a habit that while I am reading Carl Safina’s book Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, any scientist or researcher’s name I come across, I search on Twitter. This week while reading “Howl of Wolves,” I was presented with various experts in the field of animal science that included names like, Rick McIntyre, Doug Smith, Bernd Heinrich, Derek Craighead, Dr. Thomas Savage and Richard Wrangham. Unfortunately, I was not able to find active Twitter accounts for any of those experts. However, later in the week as I was surfing through the internet I came upon an article that resumed what I had read about wolves that now live in Yellowstone National Park along with a story of a recent encounter between a photographer and a big furry wolf in the Lamar Valley. After reading the article, I of course shared it on Twitter. Shifting the focus to posts, this week I was able to explore the various tweets that are possible on the social media platform, Twitter. The past couple of weeks, I tweeted links to articles, videos or retweeted other posts, but never had I made a thread, a group of tweets! In all honesty, I had seen threads on Twitter but never knew what they consisted of or how to create them. So in class and on my own I explored the process behind threads and soon enough was able to make two threads! Check them out in the images below. Going back to the topic of attempting to find more accounts to follow, though my first attempt in the week to follow accounts did not turn out good, through my research on Google, Academic Search Complete and Twitter, I was able to find accounts that tweeted valuable sources of information concerning animal science and advocacy. As you may have read in my Week 3 blog post, I am really interested in researching on bear cognition or bear communication. Thus, after a week of searching for sources of valuable scientific findings related to my interest, I was able to find a couple of organizations and researchers that have conducted studies with bears for years. Just like I usually do after reading Safina’s book, I also searched the researchers and scientists on Twitter. While not all of the experts in bear studies had a social media account, the organizations and groups they belonged to did have active Twitter accounts. For instance, American black bear biologist, Lynn Rogers did not have a Twitter account yet the organization he founded, the North American Bear Center, and The Wildlife Research Institute, where he contributes research time, all have accounts.
Another reason to feel happy is for the fact that I was able to gain followers from different parts in the world! Last week I had 30 now I have 36! Slowly but surely, I am making progress! It all was due to me following accounts that appeared to be advocates within the umbrella of animal issues. Soon afterwards they followed me back! I also think the hashtags I include in my posts are exposing me to a greater audience! What a productive week! Keep up with my Twitter activity @DCSiquin!
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