Academic Twitter is higher ed people tweeting. What do we think of Academic Twitter?
On the positive side, there are many good things about tweeting academics. Twitter provides a platform and a community.
On Twitter, one’s academic identity and intellectual status is not dependent on one’s position in the higher education hierarchy. An adjunct instructor can exert more Twitter influence than a tenured full-professor, providing they have built and maintained a critical mass of followers.
Where else in higher education is one’s status dependent on the quality of one’s contribution to a community of practice than Academic Twitter?
Still, there are many things about Twitter that leave me queasy. I’ll enumerate three: