by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media, Twitter
Anger is not a bad emotion. There is much to be angry about in this world—especially in regards to injustice—and anger, in the right context, can be a useful tool for motivation. Yet on Twitter, there are people who appear to be angry all of the time. Every tweet is...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter
I’ve tweeted over 16,400 times, yet I continue to make a rookie mistake: I post a comment to a tweet I am interested in, and then, 1-2 minutes later, I delete it. Why did I originally write the comment? Usually because it’s a topic I am fired up about. But...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Writing, Writing Habits
About once a week, I load up my most commonly used writers’ hashtags on Tweetdeck, and I spend twenty minutes or so commenting upon, retweeting, and liking about 20 tweeters’ tweets. Most of these people I will also follow. I call this my weekly Writer’s...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Twitter Ethics
Storms, although often predictable at the macro-level, have an element of randomness that often causes significant chaos and destruction at the human level. Knowing “lots of bad stuff is going to happen” is not the same as saying what specific bad things will happen,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Writing Habits
My ten-year Twitter Anniversary: February 18th, 2022. I have tweeted over 16,000 times, which means on average I have tweeted just over 4 tweets/day for the past ten years. This doesn’t mean I am a Twitter or social media expert, but it is something—at the least, a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Writing
Is tweeting “serious writing”? If done intentionally, it certainly can be. A tweet with 280 characters can carry a haiku, a micro-poem, an insightful sentence, even a small paragraph. And sequential tweets can often contain complex stories. Also, emojis,...
