My Love/Hate Affair with Twitter

Twitter was my first love with social media. I signed up back in 2009 as I was curious about this new social media networking website. Back then I was in the newspaper industry working in advertising sales.

A few years later we had an earthquake while I was at work. (This was highly unusual for the East Coast.) We didn’t know it for sure being on the 2nd floor where the advertising department was.

We all felt something. The floor was moving. No news had broken from the newsroom yet. I called my parents, they didn’t feel it at home and thought I was crazy.

I went immediately on Twitter and saw the news coming from the south to the north of the East Coast as it was confirmed. I met others from my local area while tweeting.

3 other women and I became friends on Twitter from that day and got together for lunches every few months afterward.

The First Few Years on Twitter

Those first few years I didn’t tweet a lot. I didn’t show my face in my profile. My profile picture was an icon of a computer.

When you go back to look at your first tweet it won’t show your old profile picture just the tweet itself: