Chris Betcher

I started on Twitter back in February 2007, joining the service as user number 779,452 using the name @betchaboy . At the time, I thought I was already late to the Twitter party but looking back at it now that the number of users has crossed into the billions , I guess that wasn't the case. In the time I've been part of Twitter, my use of it has grown considerably. As I write this, my Twitter account follows 3,931 people (mostly other educators with a nice mix of others thrown in just to keep in interesting), and there are 8,496 people following me. With over 11,000 tweets since I joined, Twitter has been a big part of my learning for the last 7 years. Twitter has been an incredibly valuable tool of connection and learning, and has enabled me to be part of conversations and communities that I never would have discovered otherwise. Twitter has, quite literally, been life and career changing for me. I've written quite a few blog posts about Twitter over the years, some...