I really like twitter. I've been on it for years. of the social media sites it was the only one that appealed to me right away. I blog already so I took to microblogging very quickly.
since I like twitter so much, I volunteer to tweet for multiple organizations. I tweeted for socal harvest for maybe a year-and-a-half. I tweet for scdbc, and in the summer I tweet from their tourney account. when I was on space I tweeted for them, and after switching teams I now tweet for xg. and of course I tweet for algalita (I am their social media manager after all).
there is a dragon boat blog that is fairly popular. I don't know when it came about but I think I started seeing posts maybe two years ago? anyway. end of last year they did this feature on like 15 dragon boat twitter accounts you have to follow, and also 10 dragon boat instagrammers you need to follow. space was on the twitter list and xg was on the instagram list.
I couldn't help but be annoyed. space tweets very infrequently. at that time maybe once or twice a month. when I was tweeting for them it was generally twice a week. I've stuck to that same frequency now that I'm tweeting for xg. obviously, quantity and quality are not the same but I don't think my posts were worse than the ones now. and seriously, how must you follow an account that tweets only once every three weeks? one of the lesser reasons I left space was that I felt like it was super clique-y. most of the leadership was dating within the leadership and they always hung out together. and the same people being recognized over and over again. at banquets it was the same 10 people winning the same awards every year. I tweeted for them and managed their blog for many years and I don't remember being thanked for it. in fact, I remember saying how long some blog banner update thing took me only to have someone else comment that it would've taken them like a quarter of the time. ...but you didn't do anything, did you? I certainly don't volunteer for the recognition, but it is nice to be appreciated after years of effort. but I eventually quit space and completely forgot about it until they were recognized for their twitter. ugh.
anyway. I tell myself that since there are fewer db teams on instagram than on twitter, that db blog probably promoted lower quality accounts in order to get a bigger spread of teams. it just so happens that my work was again not recognized. honestly, I don't think it would bother me much except for the space issue from before which I'd completely forgotten about until this happened.
really tho, none of this stuff matters. I volunteer because I like to. I try to do a good job because that's who I am. ...turns out I'm petty too, haha!
