After a great conversation with a colleague as Twitter use expands throughout our teaching and admin staff, I find myself researching Twitter and punctuation; caught between two thoughts:
1. Buffer social blog - Posts that use an exclamation mark see 2.7 times more engagement on average.
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald — 'Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.'
Social media can seem like the wild west of language usage, especially on Twitter with its 140-character limit. If we must use an exclamation point to make our point, we must! Grammar rules should apply, though. Just like in the real world and in ELA class: only one exclamation point at a time, please. And when in doubt, go with F. Scott Fitzgerald as a reliable source over a blog (says the blogger).
Or to think of it another way: none of us talk with jazz hands, do we?
1. Buffer social blog - Posts that use an exclamation mark see 2.7 times more engagement on average.
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald — 'Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.'
Social media can seem like the wild west of language usage, especially on Twitter with its 140-character limit. If we must use an exclamation point to make our point, we must! Grammar rules should apply, though. Just like in the real world and in ELA class: only one exclamation point at a time, please. And when in doubt, go with F. Scott Fitzgerald as a reliable source over a blog (says the blogger).
Or to think of it another way: none of us talk with jazz hands, do we?