Stop blowing up my Twitter!

By Matthew Boyle | mboyle@flagler.edu

I don’t need six tweets on Jan. 28 about Tom Manuel’s sentencing, all in one day.

I have certain Twitter Feeds texted to my cell phone. Normally, this allows me to keep up on the big breaking stories but, lately, I’ve found it to be quite annoying.

As the Co-Editor in Chief of The Gargoyle, the student newspaper of Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla., I follow the local daily newspaper, The St. Augustine Record on Twitter and have its tweets texted to my cell phone.

Whoever is running the Twitter account over there really needs to lay off the tweets. I’m glad your news organization is starting to incorporate social media, but I don’t need six tweets – which translate into texts for me – in one day about Tom Manuel.

Also, if you take anything from this post St. Augustine Record-Tweeter, make it: if you’re going to blow up your Twitter followers’ accounts and cell phones, it better be worth it, not old news that isn’t interesting anymore.

I’m seriously considering stopping following the St. Augustine Record’s Twitter.

Either tweet all your headlines, like we do at The Gargoyle, or tweet stories of interest. But, seriously, don’t turn off your social media followers as soon as you get them.