In early 2009 I made my first Twitter account.
It was more for testing than anything really, and to this day it really doesn’t get used (which is why I don’t bother to link it). This account was what I considered my “personal” account – one that I would use to share day to day stuff with those who cared.
Now, over two years later, I have about 40 Twitter accounts. No, I don’t use them all (or even most of them) – many were placeholders for various possible projects/ideas (I have a lot of these). At one point I even offered one to WotC, which they accepted (I can’t say which, or whether it has been used or not, sorry). The point is that when it comes to Twitter accounts, and even domain names, it seems I can never have enough (ex: dnd5.com is one I have had for a while).
With the @theweem Twitter account, one of the things I tried to do was maintain (as close as possible) a 100% “D&D related” tweet goal. I think at this point it’s probably 90% or so, which I consider a success, but this has taken some work. As time has passed, I have found myself more and more frequently typing out tweets only to hold the “backspace” key and deleting them as they are not D&D related.
What I have come to realize over the last few months is that @theweem really has become my personal account (as opposed to one meant only to share D&D-related items with others), and that maybe I should worry a little less about the goal of making it almost entirely D&D related. This has been hard for me because I wonder sometimes if that isn’t one of the draws of accounts such as these – they are focused on a specific topic and not all over the place. I know there are accounts I follow for that very reason, and I’m not sure at what point enough focus would be lost before I would finally stop following them.
The people who follow the @theweem account are such awesome people – I see it daily, and I don’t want to do anything to annoy anyone or make them feel like anything has changed for the worst, but at the same time I think there might be a little room for me to start saying a little more here that might not be D&D/RPG related.
Anyway, I am going to start allowing myself to interject a little more Mike into the conversation but at the same time I will remain aware of the expectations I have set over the last 10 months or so regarding outgoing content from the account. I would love to hear from anyone on this regardless of whether you think such a change would be a good or bad thing.
I approve of this plan. Anyone who’s offended by someone expressing themselves in more than one way (i.e. not-D&D) is probably not worth listening to 😉
Thanks for stopping in and commenting Null, I appreciate it. I figured that most people would feel that way, but as I have set this tone over the last 10 months, I worry about suddenly changing it. But like I said, I will be trying to make it a subtle change, hehe.
Thanks again!