Last October I posted Twitter: Shall I Follow You? in which I mused about whether to follow students who followed me, and there were some interesting comments.
At the moment I am only following some of the Reading students who follow me, and I am not consistent in what I decide. I've noticed at least one student who has blocked me!
Since then we set up a @RedGloo twitter account and it followed all the sensible people who followed it (not the spammers).
We then set up on the front page of RedGloo a feed from the people RedGloo followed - first checking they didn't mind.
Just this week a tag #noRG was introduced to stop tweets appearing on RedGloo if the sender wanted in general for tweets to be seen but occasionally not.
I'm wondering if with students (and colleagues) if I should use the guideline that if they are happy to be on the RedGloo stream they are happy for me to follow them, I would also know to shut my eyes if there was a #noRG tag.
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Interesting point there -
I mean surely if they follow you, they should expect for at least a few tweets to be viewed by you?
Not only that, the vast majority of students don't use Twitter as much incomparison to Facebook
I wonder why one student blocked you lol =)
khayes97 on Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 13:02 BST # |
If I'm happy enough to leave me twitter open then I do it under the full realisation that anyone could read it. Although i'm no longer a student, the same rules apply to students, and while you will get the odd few who will understand the issues here (Shirley) and attempt to turn a blind eye and not let twitter messages affect their judgements in a professional setting, the same cannot be said about the vast majority of people, who can also read your stream even without following you.
That said, despite my twitter beingwide open, I haven't followed redgloo because I have no interest in broadcasting my messages out. I'd prefer those who might be interested to follow me intentionally, but I take that view with the full understanding that in reality I have no say about who or what retweets/broadcasts what I say online or in a public place.
Ben Clark on Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 13:06 BST # |
Karsten Oster Lundqvist on Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 16:55 BST # |